§ Passed in the Third Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.—55 GEO. III.—A. D. 1814–15.
§ 1. An Act for the encouragement and reward of petty officers, seamen, and royal marines, for long and faithful service, and for the consolidation of the Chest at Greenwich with the Royal Hospital there.
§ 2. For directing the application of the residuary personal estate of Anna Maria Reynolds, spinster, bequeathed by her to the use of the Sinking Fund.
§ 3. For continuing to his Majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates in England; for the service of the year 1815.
§ 4. For raising the sum of 12,500,000l. by Exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.
§ 5. To enable the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to issue Exchequer bills, on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by Parliament for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.
§ 6. To continue, until the 25th day of March 1816, an Act for suspending the operation of an Act of the 17th year of his present Majesty, for restraining the negociation of promissory notes and bills of exchange under a limited sum in England.
§ 7. To repeal an Act of the last session of Parliament, for granting duties of Excise on certain sorts of glass made in Ireland, and for granting and allowing certain countervailing duties and drawbacks in respect thereof.
§ 8. To continue, during the continuance of the present hostilities, and until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, so much of an Act of the 34th year of his present Majesty, as permits the importation into Great Britain and Ireland in neutral vessels, from states in amity with his Majesty, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize.
§ 9. To continue, until the expiration of six months after the conclusion of the present hostilities, an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty, for authorizing his Majesty in council to allow the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities in neutral ships into and from his Majesty's territories in the. West Indies and continent of South America.
§ 10. To make further provision respecting the duties payable upon East India goods, and to allow bond to be given for payment of the duties upon such goods when imported by private traders.
§ 11. To continue, until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, an 1158 Act of the 45th year of his present Majesty, for granting to foreign ships put under his Majesty's protection, the privileges of prizeships; and for allowing aliens in foreign colonies surrendered to his Majesty, to exercise the occupations of merchants or factors during the present war.
§ 12. To amend several Acts relating to fines in respect of unlawful distillation in Ireland, to the warehousing of spirits, and to the securing the duties of Excise on spirits distilled, and on hides and skins tanned in Ireland.
§ 13. To amend an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to provide for the better execution of the laws in Ireland, by appointing superintending magistrates and additional constables in counties, in certain cases.
§ 14. To impose certain duties on the importation, and to allow drawbacks on the exportation of certain sorts of wood into and from Ireland, in lieu of former duties and drawbacks on the like sorts of wood; and to indemnify persons who have admitted certain sorts of wood to entry on payment of a proportion only of the duty imposed thereon.
§ 15. To amend an Act made in the 52nd year of his present Majesty, for making provision for the better support of his Majesty's household, during the continuance of his Majesty's indisposition.
§ 16. To continue and amend an Act, passed in the 48th year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for empowering the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance the sum of three millions towards the supply for the service of the year 1808.
§ 17. To indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March 1816; and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors to make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term 1816.
§ 18. To settle and secure an annuity on lord Walsingham, in consideration of his services as chairman of the committees of the House of Lords.
§ 19. To grant certain duties of Excise upon licences for the sale of spirituous and other liquors by retail, and upon licences to persons dealing in exciseable commodities, in Ireland, in lieu of the Stamp-duties payable upon such licences; and to secure the pay- 1159 ment of such Excise-duties, and to regulate the issuing of such licences; and to discourage the immoderate use of spirituous liquors in Ireland.
§ 20. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the Army and their quarters.
§ 21. For the regulating of his Majesty's Royal Marine forces while on shore.
§ 22. To repeal the duties of Customs payable on the importation of tobacco, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof.
§ 23. To repeal the duties of Customs upon the importation of citrat of lime, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof.
§ 24. To grant duties of Customs on the exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, from Ireland, in lieu of the duties of Customs heretofore payable on such exportation.
§ 25. For the better regulation of the manufacture of brown linens in Ireland.
§ 26. To amend the laws now in force for regulating the importation of corn.
§ 27. To continue, until the 5th day of July 1816, certain additional duties of Excise in Great Britain.
§ 28. For further continuing, until the 5th day of July 1816, an Act of the 44th year of his present Majesty, to continue the restrictions contained in the several Acts of his present Majesty on payments of cash by the Bank of England.
§ 29. To regulate the trade between Malta and its dependencies, and his Majesty's colonies and plantations in America; and also between Malta and the United Kingdom.
§ 30. For granting to his Majesty, until the 5th day of April 1819, additional duties of Excise in Great Britain on sweets, tobacco, snuff, and Excise licences.
§ 31. To amend certain Acts respecting the exportation and importation of sugar, and further to regulate the importation of sugar, coffee, and other articles from certain islands in the West Indies.
§ 32. To rectify a mistake in an Act of the present session of Parliament with respect to the duties on sugar imported from the East Indies; and for further continuing, until the end of six weeks from and after the expiration of any Act or Acts of Parliament continuing the temporary or war duties upon sugar imported into Great Britain, certain countervailing duties, drawbacks, and bounties, on refined sugar.
§ 33. To continue, until the 5th day of July 1816, certain temporary or war duties of Customs on the importation into Great Britain of goods, wares, and merchandize.
§ 34. To continue, until the 25th day of March 1817, an Act made in the 40th year of his present Majesty, to permit the importation of tobacco into Great Britain from any place whatever.
§ 35. To grant to his Majesty an additional duty of Excise of tobacco in Ireland.
1160§ 36. To grant to his Majesty a duty of Customs on tobacco imported into Ireland.
§ 37. To amend several Acts respecting the exportation and importation of sugar into and from Ireland; and further to regulate the importation into Ireland of sugar, coffee, and other articles, from certain islands in the West Indies.
§ 38. To repeal so much of an Act of the last session of Parliament, as directs that no bleaching powder, made in Ireland and brought into Scotland, should be removed into England.
§ 39. To revive and continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, several laws relating to the encouragement of the Greenland whale fisheries, and to the allowing vessels employed in the said fisheries to complete their full number of men at certain ports.
§ 40. For raising the sum of 2,323,750l. Irish currency, by Treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1815.
§ 41. To continue, until three months after the ceasing of any restriction imposed on the Bank of England from issuing cash in payment, the several Acts for confirming and continuing the restrictions on payments in cash by the Bank of Ireland.
§ 42. To facilitate the administration of justice in that part of the United Kingdom called Scotland, by the extending trial by jury to civil causes.
§ 43. For the more effectual prevention of the use of false and deficient measures.
§ 44. For the relief of the captors of prizes, with respect to the admitting and landing of certain prize vessels and goods in Ireland; to continue in force until the 25th day of March 1816.
§ 45. For continuing the premiums allowed to ships employed in the southern whale fishery.
§ 46. To amend an Act passed in the 48th year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better care and maintenance of lunatics, being paupers or criminals in England.
§ 47. For procuring returns relative to the expense and maintenance of the poor in England; and also relative to the highways.
§ 48. For enlarging the powers of two Acts of his present Majesty, for providing clergymen to officiate in gaols and houses of correction within England and Wales.
§ 49. To procure returns of persons committed, tried, and convicted for criminal offences and misdemeanors.
§ 50. For the abolition of gaol and other fees connected with the gaols in England.
§ 51. To amend an Act of his late Majesty King George the second, for the more easy assessing, collecting, and levying of county rates.
§ 52. To revive and continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, several Acts for charging additional duties err copper imported into Great Britain.
1161§ 53. To revive and continue, for one year, the duties and contributions on the profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices in Great Britain.
§ 54. To repeal an Act of the last session of Parliament, for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or resident therein; and to establish, for twelve months, other regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or residing therein, in certain cases.
§ 55. To enable the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, to contract for the purchase and surrender of crown leases, and to sell his Majesty's interest in the Thornhill estate, in the parish of Stallbridge, in the county of Dorset, and in certain small parcels of land belonging to his Majesty's subjects within the royal forests; and to remove doubts as to estates, of the Crown, sold by order of the said commissioners, being exempted from the auction duty.
§ 56. To authorize the commissioners and governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, to transfer a certain sum in the three pounds per cent. Consolidated Annuities, now standing in the name of the corporation of the Chest of Greenwich, into the name of the said commissioners; and also to receive such dividends as are now due upon such annuities.
§ 57. To repeal the provisions of former Acts, granting exclusive privileges of trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify the said Company for the loss of such privileges.
§ 58. For granting annuities to discharge certain Exchequer bills.
§ 59. For amending an Act of his present Majesty, to insure the proper and careful manufacturing of fire-arms in England, and for making provision for proving the barrels of such fire-arms.
§ 60. To repeal several Acts relating to the execution of letters of attorney and wills of petty officers, seamen, and marines, in his Majesty's Navy, and to make new provisions respecting the same.
§ 61. To grant to his Majesty certain increased rates, duties, and taxes, in Ireland, in respect of windows, male servants, carriages, horses, and dogs, in lieu of former rates, duties, and taxes in respect of the like articles.
§ 62. To grant to his Majesty certain increased duties of Excise in Ireland on malt.
§ 63. To repeal the additional duty on British-made wine or sweets granted by an Act of this session of Parliament.
§ 64. To explain and amend an Act of the 53rd year of his present Majesty, as far as relates to the granting gratuities to the East India Company.
§ 65. To amend the laws relating to the Militia of Great Britain.
§ 66. For allowing makers of oxygenated muriatic acid to take salt, duty free, for making 1162 such acid or oxymuriate of lime for bleaching linen and cotton; for repealing the Excise duties on Glauber salt, and on bleaching powder imported from Ireland; and to allow a further drawback on foreign brimstone used in making oil of vitriol.
§ 67. To grant to his Majesty certain duties and taxes in Ireland, in respect of certain male servants, carriages and horses, kept to be let to hire.
§ 68. To amend an Act of the 13th year of his present Majesty, for the amendment and preservation of the public highways, in so far as the same relates to notice of appeal against turning or diverting a public highway; and to extend the provisions of the same Act to the stopping up of unnecessary roads.
§ 69. To regulate madhouses in Scotland.
§ 70. For better regulating the formation and arrangement of the judicial and other records of the Court of Session in Scotland.
§ 71. To regulate hawker's and pedlars in Scotland.
§ 72. To fix the election for Glamorganshire at a central place within the said county.
§ 73. For granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.
§ 74. For granting annuities to discharge certain Exchequer bills; and for raising a sum of money by annuities, for the service of Great Britain.
§ 75. To continue the encouragement of persons making discoveries for finding the longitude at sea, or other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation, and for making experiments relating thereto; and for discharging certain debts incurred by the commissioners of the longitude, in carrying the Acts relating thereto into execution.
§ 76. To enable his Majesty, until the 1st day of May 1816, to accept the services of the Local Militia, either in or out of their counties, under certain restrictions.
§ 77. To authorize, under present circumstances, the drawing out and embodying of the British and Irish Militia, or any part thereof.
§ 78. To repeal the several duties under the care of the commissioners for managing the Stamp-duties in Ireland, and to grant new duties in lieu thereof.
§ 79. To regulate the collection and management of the Stamp-duties on law proceedings, attornies, solicitors, proctors, and corporate officers in Ireland.
§ 80. To provide for the collection and management of Stamp-duties on pamphlets, almanacks, and newspapers in Ireland.
§ 81. To repeal the several Acts for the collection and management of Stamp-duties in Ireland, and to make more effectual regulations for collecting and managing the said duties in general.
§ 82. To grant duties of Customs, and to allow drawbacks and bounties on certain goods, wares, and merchandize imported into and exported from Ireland, in lieu of former duties, drawbacks, and bounties; and to 1163 make farther regulations for securing the duties of Customs in Ireland.
§ 83. To regulate the payment of the duties of Customs on foreign goods imported into Great Britain from Ireland, or into Ireland from Great Britain; and of the drawbacks on the exportation of goods the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain or Ireland, having been imported into either country from the other.
§ 84. To amend so much of an Act of the 33rd year of his present Majesty, as relates to fixing the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay; and also so much of an Act of the 39th and 40th year of his present Majesty, as relates to granting letters of administration to the effects of persons dying intestate within the several presidencies in the East Indies, to the Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Courts; and to enable the Governor in council of the said presidencies to remove persons not being British subjects; and to make provision for the Judges in the East Indies in certain cases.
§ 85. To amend and continue for one year, and until twelve months after the termination of the present war by the ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, two Acts of his present Majesty, for enabling subjects of foreign states to enlist and serve as soldiers in his Majesty's service; and to enable his Majesty to grant commissions to subjects of foreign states to serve as officers, under certain restrictions.
§ 86. To continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, an Act made in the 46th year of his present Majesty, for permitting the importation of masts, yards, bowsprits, and timber for naval purposes, from the British colonies in North America.
§ 87. To relieve certain foreign vessels resorting to the port of London in respect of pilotage; and to regulate the mode of payment of pilotage on foreign vessels in the said port.
§ 88. To amend an Act of the last session of Parliament, for rendering more easy and effectual redress for assaults in Ireland.
§ 89. To amend an Act of the 53rd year of his Majesty's reign, for making regulations for the building and repairing of courthouses and sessions-houses in Ireland.
§ 90. To explain an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the 32nd year of his Majesty's reign, relative to inland navigations there, so far as relates to the limitation of actions against canal companies and others.
§ 91. For the payment of costs and charges to prosecutors and witnesses, in cases of felony in Ireland.
§ 92. To amend an Act of the 50th year of his present Majesty's reign, relating to prisons in Ireland, so far as concerns contracts for building or repairing such prisons.
§ 93. To repeal the duties payable on, and the permission to enter for home consumption silk handkerchiefs imported by the East India Company.
1164§ 94. To continue and amend several Acts relating to the British white herring fishery.
§ 95. To repeal the duties payable on the importation into Great Britain of solid vegetable extract from oak bark, and other vegetable substances used in the tanning of leather; and to grant a duty in lieu thereof.
§ 96. To grant a further sum of money for purchasing an estate to accompany the title of earl Nelson, and also to amend two Acts of the 46th and 53rd years of his present Majesty's reign for making such purchase.
§ 97. To grant to the Judges of the Commissary Court of Edinburgh a fixed salary in place of their present salary, and certain fees and payments.
§ 98. To enable the select committee on the Downpatrick election to re-assemble, and to suspend the transmission of the warrants and other proceedings for the appointment of commissioners to examine witnesses in Ireland.
§ 99. To make further provisions for collecting and securing the duties of Excise on malt made in Ireland.
§ 100. To provide for the collection and management of Stump-duties payable on bills of exchange, promissory notes, receipts, and game certificates in Ireland.
§ 101. To regulate the collection of Stamp-duties on matters in respect of which licences may be granted by the Commissioners of Stamps in Ireland.
§ 102. To repeal certain duties on leather dressed in oil in Great Britain, or imported from Ireland.
§ 103. To regulate the postage of ship letters to and from Ireland.
§ 104. To make further provisions for the issuing of licences to persons to deal in, retail, make, or manufacture spirits and other exciseable commodities in Ireland, and for securing the duties of Excise payable by the persons so licensed.
§ 105. To make further provisions for collecting and securing the duties of Excise on hides and skins tanned in Ireland.
§ 106. To make further provisions for collecting and securing the duties of Excise on paper printed, painted, or stained in Ireland, to serve for hangings and other uses.
§ 107. To regulate the appointment of governors of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin.
§ 108. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.
§ 109. To enable the sheriff depute or substitute and justices of the peace of the county of Blackmanan, to incarcerate persons in the gaol of the royal burgh of Stirling, or the common gaol of the county of Stirling.
§ 110. For charging certain duties on sweets or made wines in Ireland in lieu of former duties.
§ 111. For the better collecting and securing the duties on spirits distilled in Ireland.
§ 112. For the better regulating and securing 1165 the collection of the duties on paper made in Ireland, and to prevent frauds therein.
§ 113. For altering certain drawbacks and countervailing duties on glass, for exempting Irish glass bottles from the duty imposed by an Act of the last session of Parliament, and for exempting the leather and glass of carriages belonging to certain persons imported from Ireland for private use from duty.
§ 114. To angment the salary of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and to enable his Majesty to giant an additional annuity to such Master of the Rolls on the resignation of his office; and to regulate the disposal of the offices of the Six Clerks in the Court of Chancery in Ireland.
§ 115. To carry into effect a convention made between his Majesty and the King of the Netherlands and the Emperor of ail the Russias.
§ 116. To make further regulations for the registry of ships built in India.
§ 117. To permit, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, the importation into Great Britain and Ireland, in neutral vessels from states in amity with his Majesty, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, and to prohibit the exportation of copper; and to permit the importation, in neutral vessels from states not in amity with his Majesty, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize.
§ 118. To regulate the clearance of vessels, and delivery of coast bonds, at creeks and harbours in Great Britain; for exempting certain ships and vessels from being licensed by the commissioners of Customs; for authorizing officers of the Customs to seize spirits removing without Excise permits; and for preventing frauds in overloading keels and other carriages used in conveying coals for exportation, or to be carried coastwise.
§ 119. To enable the trustees of turnpike-roads to abate the tolls on carriages, and to allow of their carrying extra weights in certain cases.
§ 120. To provide for the taking an account of the population of Ireland, and for the ascertaining the increase or diminution thereof.
§ 121. To amend and explain an Act, passed in the 54th year of his present Majesty, for maintaining and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges made in Scotland for the purpose of military communication; and for making more effectual provision for maintaining and repairing roads made and bridges built in Scotland, under the authority of the parliamentary commissioners for highland roads and bridges.
§ 122. To amend an Act of the 53rd year of his present Majesty, for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of Windsor forest, in the county of Berks; and for inclosing the open commonable lands within the said forest.
§ 123. For making compensation for lands and hereditaments taken for erecting works at and near Portsmouth and Hilsea, in the 1166 county of Southampton, in pursuance of an Act made in the last session of Parliament.
§ 124. For raising the sum of 36 millions by way of annuities.
§ 125. To amend an Act of his late Majesty King George the 2nd, for the relief of the out-pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea.
§ 126. To authorize the allowing to foreign officers, allowances equivalent in amount to the half-pay given to British officers under the like circumstances.
§ 127. To repeal an Act of the 53rd year of his present Majesty, for preventing the embezzlement of stores; and to extend the provisions of the several Acts relating to his Majesty's naval, ordnance, and victualling stores, to all other public stores.
§ 128. To enable his Majesty to acquire ground necessary for signal and telegraph stations.
§ 129. To increase the drawbacks and countervailing duties on tobacco, and to limit the tonnage of ships in which wine may be exported when duties are drawn back.
§ 130. For further regulating the issue and payment of money to his Majesty's forces serving abroad.
§ 131. For discontinuing certain deductions from half-pay, and for further regulating the accounts of the Paymaster general.
§ 132. To continue, until the end of the next session of Parliament, an Act of the last session of Parliament, for regulating the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland respectively.
§ 133. To grant further powers to the commissioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals with respect to pensions on those establishments.
§ 134. For altering the rate at which the Crown may exercise its right of pre-emption of ore in which there is lead.
§ 135. To alter the conditions and regulations under which blubber and train-oil of Newfoundland are admitted to entry.
§ 136. For the relief of the out-pensioners of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham.
§ 137. To prevent poor persons in workhouses from embezzling certain property provided for their use; to alter and amend so much of an Act of the 36th year of his present Majesty, as restrains justices of the peace from ordering relief to poor persons in certain cases for a longer period than one month at a time; and for other purposes therein mentioned, relating to the poor.
§ 138. For vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the forest of Exmoor, otherwise Exmore, in the counties of Somerset and Devon; and for inclosing the said forest.
§ 139. To grant an additional duty of Excise in Ireland, upon spirits made or distilled from corn or grain.
§ 140. To make further provisions for the collection of certain duties on male servants, carriages, and horses; and in respect of houses in Ireland.
1167§ 141. To amend an Act made in this session of Parliament to repeal former Acts granting exclusive privileges of trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify the said Company for the loss of such privileges.
§ 142. To reduce the duties on all sheep-wool, the growth of the United Kingdom, which shall be sold by auction for the growers or first purchasers.
§ 143. To amend the Acts relating to the building and repairing of county bridges.
§ 144. To enable the commissioners of Customs and Port-duties in Ireland, to purchase premises for the erecting additional docks, warehouses, and offices, in Dublin.
§ 145. To increase the allowance to the Postoffice in Ireland, in respect of packet boats to Great Britain.
§ 146. To authorize his Majesty to regulate, until the 1st day of July 1816, the trade with any French colony which may come into his Majesty's possession, or remain neutral.
§ 147. For enabling spiritual persons to exchange the parsonage or glebe houses or glebe lands, belonging, to their benefices, for others of greater value, or more conveniently situated for their residence and occupation; and for annexing such houses and lands, so taken in exchange, to such benefices as parsonage or glebe houses and glebe lands, and for purchasing and annexing lands to become glebe in certain cases, and for other purposes.
§ 148. For raising the sum of 4,500,000l. by Exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.
§ 149. For raising the sum of 1,500,000l. by Exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.
§ 150. For rectifying mistakes in the names of the Land-tax commissioners, and for appointing additional commissioners, and indemnifying such persons as have acted without due authority in execution of the Acts therein recited.
§ 151. To amend the laws for imposing and levying of fines, in respect of unlawful distillation óf spirits in Ireland.
§ 152. For granting to his Majesty the sum of 20,000l., to be issued and applied towards repairing roads between London and Holyhead, by Chester, and between London and Bangor, by Shrewsbury.
§ 153. For granting certain rates on the postage of letters to and from Great Britain, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and the East Indies; and for making certain regulations respecting the postage of ship letters, and of letters in Great Britain.
§ 154. For fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.
§ 155. To continue, until the 5th day of July 1816, the temporary fourth part of the duties payable in Scotland upon distillers wash, spirits, and licences imposed by an Act of the 54th year of his present Majesty; 1168 and for enabling his Majesty, by order in council, to modify the operations of the said Act, or reduce the duties thereby imposed.
§ 156. To amend the laws relative to the transportation of offenders; to continue in force until the 1st day of May 1816.
§ 157. For the better examination of witnesses in the Courts of Equity in Ireland, and for empowering, the Courts of Law and Equity in Ireland to grant commissions for taking affidavits in all parts of Great Britain.
§ 158. To enable grand juries to present additional sums for constables in Ireland, and for the secure conveyance of prisoners.
§ 159. To amend several Acts relating to hackney coaches; for authorizing the licensing of an additional number of hackney chariots; and for licensing carriages drawn by one horse.
§ 160. For the encouragement of seamen, and the more effectual manning of his Majesty's Navy during the present war.
§ 161. To amend and render more effectual an Act of the 52nd year of his present Majesty, to amend and regulate the assessment and collection of the assessed taxes, and of the rates and duties on profits arising on property, professions, trades, and offices, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
§ 162. To repeal the Excise duties and drawbacks on Epsom salt.
§ 163. To regulate the issuing of licences to allow open boats to proceed to foreign parts, and for revoking the same when necessary.
§ 164. To exonerate, in certain cases, foreign spirits imported during the suspension of the spirit intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland, from the additional duty imposed thereon.
§ 165. To defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain, and of the miners of Cornwall and Devon; and for granting allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers, adjutants, surgeons, mates, and serjeant-majors of Militia, until the 25th day of March 1816.
§ 166. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the Local Militia in Great Britain, to the 25th day of March 1816.
§ 167. For defraying, until the 25th day of June 1816, the charge of the pay and clothing of the Militia of Ireland; and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said Militia during peace.
§ 168. To explain and amend the laws relating to the Militias of Great Britain and Ireland.
§ 169. To provide for the charge of the addition to the public funded debt of Great Britain, for the service of the year 1815.
§ 170. To amend an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, for better regulating the office of Agent-general for Volunteers and Local Militia, and for the more effectually gulating the same.
§ 171. To continue for one year certain Acts for the better prevention and punishment of at- 1169 tempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces by sea and land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.
§ 172. To provide for the support of captured slaves during the period of adjudication.
§ 173. For the better protection of the trade of the United Kingdom during the present hostilities with France.
§ 174. To extend the exemption granted by law on coals and culm, for which the coast duties have been duly paid, on being again exported and carried to any place in this kingdom, to cinders or coked coals burnt from pit-coal, which has paid the coast duties.
§ 175. To continue, until the 1st day of August 1816, two Acts of the 50th and 45th years of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders to London and Westminster, by inland navigation.
§ 176. For allowing certain tiles to be made, duty free, to serve for draining.
§ 177. For the further prevention of frauds in the manufacture of sweets.
§ 178. To revive and continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, an Act of the 28th year of his present Majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton in Great Britain.
§ 179. To revive, amend, and continue, until the 25th day of March 1821, so much of an Act of the 41st year of his present Majesty as allows the use of salt, duty free, for curing fish in bulk or in barrels; and to repeal certain laws relating to the allowance of salt, duty free, for the North Seas, and Iceland fisheries.
§ 180. To revive and continue, until the 5th day of July 1816, an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty's reign, for granting an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.
§ 181. For charging an additional duty on certain seeds imported.
§ 182. To authorize the directors general of inland navigation in Ireland to proceed in carrying on and completing the canal from Dublin to Tarmonbury on the river Shannon.
§ 183. To repeal the bounties payable in Ireland on the exportation of certain calicoes and cottons.
§ 184. For repealing the Stamp-duties on deeds, law proceedings, and other written or printed instruments, and the duties on fire insurances, and on legacies and successions to personal estate, upon intestacies, now payable in Great Britain; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.
§ 185. For repealing the Stamp-office duties on advertisements, almanacks, newspapers, gold and silver plate, stage coaches, and licences for keeping stage coaches, now payable in 1170 Great Britain; and for granting new duties in lieu thereof.
§ 186. For granting an additional sum of money for providing a suitable residence and estate for the duke of Wellington and his heirs, in consideration of the eminent and signal services performed by the said duke to his Majesty and the public.
§ 187. For granting to his Majesty certain sums out of the respective Consolidated Funds of Great Britain and Ireland, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1815; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.
§ 188. For enabling his Majesty to grant to John Francis Erskine of Mar, esq., and his heirs and assigns, the feu duties and quit rents arising in the lordship of Stirling, in discharge of a debt of greater value created upon the said feu duties by a grant from his Majesty King George the 1st.
§ 189. For allowing Henry Meux, Thomas Starling Benson, Florance Thomas Young, Richard Latham, and John Newberry, to brew, duty free, a quantity of strong beer, the duty on which shall be equivalent to the duty on the beer lost, and to the duties on the malt and hops expended in the production of the beer so lost.
§ 190. To amend an Act made in the 48th year of his present Majesty, to improve the land revenue of the Crown, so far as relates to the Great Forest of Brecknock, in the county of Brecknock; and for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the said forest, and for inclosing the said forest.
§ 191. To authorize the appointment of commissioners for erecting an harbour for ships to the eastward of Dunleary, within the port and harbour of Dublin.
§ 192. To remove certain difficulties in the disposition of copyhold estates by will.
§ 193. To enable his Majesty, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, to regulate the trade and commerce carried on between his Majesty's subjects and the inhabitants of the United States of America.
§ 194. For better regulating the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales.
§ 195. For exonerating the estates and effects of the late sir James Colebrooke, the late sir George Colebrooke, Arnold Nesbitt, sir Samuel Fludyer, Adam Drummond, and Moses Franks, and of their sureties, from all claims and demands whatsoever in respect of any contracts entered into with his Majesty's Government.
§ 196. For enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of six millions for the service of Great Britain.