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THE

Statutes at Large,

FROM THE

Ninth Year of King GEORGE I.

TO THE

Second Year of King GEORGE II.

BY

DANBY PICKERING, of GRAY'S INN, Efq;

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THE

Statutes at Large,

FROM THE

Ninth Year of King GEORGE I

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Second Year of King GEORGE II.

To which is prefixed,

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

VOL. XV.

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. 1765.

CUM PRIVILEGIO.

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TABLE of the STATUTES,

Containing the Titles of all fuch Acts as are extant in print, from the Eighth Year of King GEORGE I. to the Second Year of King GEORGE II.

Anno 9 Georgii I. Cap. I. To impower his MajeΤ

fty to fecure and detain fuch perfons, as his Majefty fhall fufpect are confpiring against his perfon and government, Cap. 2. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year 1723.

Cap. 3. For continuing the duties on malt, mum, cyder, and perry, to raife money by way of a lottery, for the service of the year 1723. Cap. 4. For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army, and their quar

ters.

Cap. 5. For redeeming certain annuities, now payable by the cafhier of the bank of England, at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum. Cap. 6. For reviving and adding two millions to the capital ftock of the South-Sea company, and for reviving a proportional part of the yearly fund payable at the exchequer, and for dividing their whole capital (after fuch divifion made) into two equal parts or moieties, and for converting one of the faid moieties into certain annuities, for the benefit of the members, and for fettling the remaining moiety in the faid company; and for continuing for one year longer the provifion formerly made against requiring special bail in actions or fuits upon fuch contracts, as are therein mentioned, VOL. XV.

Cap. 7. For amending the laws relating to the fettlement, imployment, and relief of the poor. Cap. 8. For continuing fome laws, and reviving others therein mentioned, for exempting apothecaries from ferving parish and ward offices, and upon juries, and relating to jurors; and to the payment of feamens wages, and the prefervation of naval ftores, and stores of war; and concerning the militia, and trophy-money; and against clandeftine running of uncustomed goods, and for more effectual preventing frauds relating to the customs, and frauds in mixing filk with ftuffs to be exported. Cap. 9. For the better qualifying the manufacturers of ftuffs and yarn in the city of Norwich, and liberties. thereof, to bear offices of magiftracy in the faid city, and for regulating elections of fuch officers.

Cap. 10. For clearing, depthning, re

pairing, extending, maintaining, and improving the haven and piers of Great Yarmouth, and for depthning and making more navigable the several rivers emptying themfelves at the faid town; and also for preserving ships, wintering in the faid haven, from accidents by fire. Cap. 11. For repairing and widening the road leading from the BlackBull in Dunstable in the county of Bedford, to the way turning out of the said road up to Shafford-House in the county of Hertford.

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