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THE

Statutes at Large,

FROM THE

Twelfth Year of Queen ANNE,

TO THE

Fifth Year of King GEORGE I.

To which is prefixed,

A TABLE containing the TITLES of all the STATUTES
during that Period.

VOL. XIII.

By DANBY PICKERING, of Gray's-Inn, Efq;
Reader of the Law Lecture to that Honourable Society.

CAMBRIDGE,

Printed by JOSEPH BENTHAM, Printer to the UNIVERSITY,
for CHARLES BATHURST, at the Cross-Keys, oppofite St. Dunstan's
Church in Fleet-Street, London. 1764.

CUM PRIVILEGIO.

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A

TABLE of the STATUTES,

Containing the Titles of all fuch Acts as are extant in print, from the Twelfth Year of Queen AN NE, to the Fifth Year of King GEORGE I.

Cap. I.

12 Annæ. Stat. 1.

•FOR

OR granting an aid to
her Majefty, to be raised
by a land tax in Great Britain, for
the fervice of the year 1713.
Cap. 2. For granting to her Majefty,
duties upon malt, mum, cyder and
perry, for the fervice of the year
1713, and for making forth du-
plicates of lottery tickets loft, burnt
or deftroyed; and for enlarging the
time for adjufting claims in fe-
veral lottery-acts; and to punith
the counterfeiting or forging of lot-
tery-orders; and for explaining a
late act in relation to ftamp-duties
on customary eftates, which pals
by deed and copy.

Cap. 3. To revive and continue the
act for taking, examining and stat-
ing the publick accounts of the
kingdom; and also to continue the
act for appointing commiffioners
to take, examine and determine the
debts due to the army, transport-
fervice, and fick and wounded.
Cap. 4. For making inclofures of fome
part of the common-grounds, in
the Weft-riding of the county of
York, for the endowing poor vi-
carages, and chapelries, for the bet-
ter fupport of their minifters.
Cap. 5. To explain a clause in an act
of the last feffion of parliament, in-
tituled, An act for the more effectual
preventing fraudulent conveyances, in
order to multiply votes for electing
knights of fires to ferve in parliament,
as far as the fame relates to the af-
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certaining the value of freeholds of 40s. per annum.

Cap. 6. For the better regulating the

elections of members to ferve in parliament for that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 7. For the more effectual preventing and punishing robberies that fhall be committed in houses. Cap. 8. For raifing the militia for the year 1713, although the month's pay formerly advanced be not re, paid.

Cap. 9. For continuing an act made in the third and fourth years of the reign of her prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for encouraging the importation of naval flores from her Majefty's plantations in America; and for encouraging the importation of naval ftores from that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to that part of Great Britain called England. Cap. 10. For continuing the acts therein mentioned, for preventing theft and rapine upon the northern borders of England.

Cap. 11. To raise 1,200,000 l. for publick ufes, by circulating a further fum in Exchequer-bills; and for enabling her Majefty to raife 500, oool. on the revenues appointed for the ufes of her civil government, to be applied for or towards payment of fuch debts and arrears owing to her fervants, tradefmen and others, as are therein mentioned. Cap. 12. For the better regulating the forces to be continued in her

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Majefty's

Majefty's fervice; and for the payment of the faid forces, and of their quarters.

Cap. 13. To enable fuch officers and foldiers as have been in her Majesty's fervice during the late war, to exercise trades, and for officers to account with their foldiers. Cap. 14. For explaining the acts for

licenfing hackney-chairs. Cap. 15. For making perpetual an act made in the feventh year of the reign of the late King William, intituled, An act to prevent falfe and · double returns of members to ferve in parliament.

Cap. 16. For the better encouragement of the making fail-cloth in Great Britain.

Cap. 17. To veft in the commiffioners for building fifty new churches in and about London and Westminster, and suburbs thereof, as much of the street near the Maypole in the Strand in the county of Middlefex, as fhall be fufficient to build one of the faid churches upon; and for reftoring to the principal and fcholars of King's-Hall, and college of Brazen-Nofe, in the university of Oxen, their right of prefentation to the churches and chapels in Stepney parish.

Cap. 18. For making perpetual the act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of the late King Charles II. intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom: and that perfons bound apprentices to, or being hired servants with perfons coming with certificates, fhall not gain fettlements by fuch fervices or apprenticeships: and for making perpetual the act made in the fixth year of her prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for the importation of cochineal from any ports in Spain, during the prefent war, and fix months longer: and for reviving a claufe in an act made in the ninth and tenth years

of the reign of the late King Wi liam, intituled, An alt for fettling the trade to Africa, for allowing foreign copper bars imported, to be exported.

Private Alts.

Anno 12 Anna, Stat. 1. 1. An act for repairing the highway or road from the Stones-End in the parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch in the county of Middlesex, to the furthermoft part of the northern road in the parish of Endfield in the fame county, next to the parish of Chefhunt in the county of Hertford. 2. An act for confirming feveral grants in fee-farm made by Henry earl of Thomond, by virtue or fince the paffing a former act of parliament; and for giving fome eafe and relief to the purchafers under or fince the faid former act.

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An act for confirming articles, and vefting the manor of Kirby-Underwood in the county of Lincoln, and other manors, lands and hereditaments thereby agreed to be fold, in trustees, for difcharging the debts of Sir John Brownlow, bart. deceafed, and his daughters portions, and other purposes in the faid articles mentioned.

An act for divesting the crown of the remainder in fee-fimple of and in the manor and advowfon of Stourton in the county of Wilts, and feveral lands, tenements and hereditaments, to the fame manor belonging, expectant on certain eftates-tail, and for vefting the fame in certain other perfons therein named, to the intent the fame may be barred by proper methods in law, for the purposes therein mentioned.

An act to enable trustees to fell fome out-parts of the eftate of Sir Bourchier Wrey, Bart. in the county of Devon, for the purpofes therein. mentioned.

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