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NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.-continued.

VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE.-An Account of the Number of VESSELS, with the Amount of their
TONNAGE, and the Number of MEN and Boys employed in Navigating the same (including their repeated Voyages)
that entered Inwards and cleared Outwards, at the several Ports of the United Kingdom, from and to all Parts of the
World (exclusive of the intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland) during each of the Three Years ending
5th January, 1829.

VOL. LXXI.

LIST OF GENERAL ACTS

Passed in the THIRD Session of the EIGHTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-10 Geo. IV. 1829.

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III. An Act for applying certain sums of money for the service of the year 1829.

IV. An Act for raising the sum of twelve millions by Exchequer bills, for the service of the year 1829.

V. An Act for the regulating of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore.

VI. An Act for punishing mutiny and

desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. VII. An Act for the relief of his majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. VIII. An Act to amend certain Acts of the parliament of Ireland relative to the election of Members to serve in parliament, and to regulate the quali fication of persons entitled to vote at the election of knights of the shire in Ireland.

IX. An Act for fixing, until the twentyfifth day of March, 1830, the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. X. An Act to suspend, until the end of the next Session of Parliament, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom, and to reduce the permanent staff, and regulate the allowances of serjeants hereafter appointed.

XI. An Act to continue for two years an Act made in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of his late majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland.

XII. An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omit

ted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively until the twenty-fifth day of March, 1830.

XIII. An Act to provide for monies paid into Court under Acts afterwards repealed.

XIV. An Act for repealing several Acts relating to the charity for the relief of the poor widows of commissioned and warrant officers in the royal navy, and for substituting other provisions in lieu thereof.

XV. An Act to facilitate the public business in certain cases in the navy and victualling departments. XVI. An Act to continue the operation of an Act of the seventh year of his present majesty, for suspending the provisions of an Act of his late majesty respecting the appointment of writers in the service of the EastIndia Company; and to amend the provisions of an Act of the fortyseventh year of his late majesty, so far as they relate to the period of residence at Hertford College, as a qualification for certain offices. XVII. An Act to continue, until the thirty-first day of December, 1832, certain Acts relating to the island of Newfoundland, and the fisheries carried on upon the banks and shores thereof.

XVIII. An Act to explain, amend, and alter the Act of the ninth year of the reign of his present majesty, for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons in England.

XIX. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the parliament of Scotland, intituled "an Act concerning the registration of seisins and reversions of tenements within Burgh."

XX. An Act to carry into execution the stipulations of a convention between his majesty and his Catholic majesty, for the settlement of certain British

claims upon Spain, and of certain Spanish claims upon the United Kingdom.

XXI. An Act to continue compositions for the assessed taxes for a further

term of one year, XXII. An Act to provide, until the thirty-first day of December, 1834, for the government of his majesty's settlements in Western Australia, on the western coast of New Holland. XXIII. An Act to impose duties on the importation of silk and silk goods, and to allow drawbacks on the exportation thereof.

XXIV. An Act to enable the Commis

sioners for the reduction of the national debt to grant life annuities and annuities for terms of years. XXV. An Act to provide for the better management of the affairs of Greenwich Hospital.

XXVI. An Act for transferring the management of Greenwich out-pensions, and certain duties in matters of prize, to the treasurer of the navy. XXVII. An Act to amend the several

Acts for regulating the reduction of the national debt.

XXVIII. An Act to apply a sum out of

the consolidated fund and the surplus of ways and means, to the service of the year 1829.

XXIX. An Act to defray the charge of

the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, paymasters, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons' mates, and serjeant majors of the militia, until the twenty-fifth day of March, 1830.

XXX. An Act to continue and amend the laws relating to yeomanry corps in Ireland.

XXXI. An Act for funding 3,000,000 of Exchequer bills.

XXXII. An Act to enable one or more of the commissioners of excise to act for the dispatch of business for Scotland and Ireland respectively. XXXIII. An Act to amend the several Acts for the encouragement of the Irish fisheries.

XXXIV. An Act for consolidating and amending the statutes in Ireland relating to offences against the person. XXXV. An Act to prevent arrests upon mesne process where the debt or cause

of action is under twenty pounds, and

to regulate the practice of arrests in Ireland.

XXXVI., An Act to continue until the end of the next session of parliament, and to amend the Acts for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland. XXXVII. An Act to amend the laws relating to coroners in Ireland. XXXVIII. An Act for the more effectual punishment of attempts to murder in certain cases in Scotland.

XXXIX. An Act for continuing to his majesty, for one year, certain duties on sugar imported into the United Kingdom, for the service of the year 1829.

XL. An Act to continue for one year, and until the end of the then next session of parliament, an Act of the sixth year of his present majesty, for providing for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland. XLI. An Act to amend the laws for the regulation of the butter trade in Ireland.

XLII. An Act to amend an Act of the

fourth year of his present majesty, for the amendment of the laws respecting charitable loan societies in Ireland.

XLIII. An Act to amend the laws relating to the customs.

XLIV. An Act for improving the police in and near the metropolis. XLV. An Act to continue, until the

fifth day of July, 1832, an Act for the more effectual administration of the office of a justice of the peace in and near the metropolis.

XLVI. An Act for more effectually executing an Act of the last session of parliament, for the better regulation of divisions in the several counties of England and Wales.

XLVII. An Act to continue for one

year, and until the end of the next session of parliament, and to amend, two Acts made in the forty-seventh and fiftieth years of the reign of his late majesty king George the Third, for the preventing improper persons from having arms in Ireland. XLVIII. An Act to authorize the sale and transfer of the stocks or funds standing in the books of the Bank of Ireland, on account of the office of the clerk of the pleas in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, and the payment and application of the produce

of such stocks or funds to the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom. XLIX. An Act to continue until the fifth day of July, 1830, the provisions of an Act to allow sugar to be delivered out of warehouse to be refined. I. An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the management and improvement of his majesty's woods, forests, parks, and chases; of the land revenue of the crown within the survey of the Exchequer in England; and of the land revenue of the crown in Ireland; and for extending certain provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Alderney.

LI. An Act to amend the law relating to the employment of children in cotton mills and factories.

LII. An Act to extend the powers of an Act of the fourth year of his present majesty, for enlarging the powers of justices in determining complaints between masters and servants, to per

sons engaged in the manufacture of

silk.

LIII. An Act to regulate the duties, salaries, and emoluments of the officers, clerks, and ministers of certain ecclesiastical courts in England. LIV. An Act for directing reports to be made respecting gaols in Scotland. LV. An Act for the more effectual recovery of small debts, and for diminishing the expenses of litigation in causes of small amount, in the sheriff courts in Scotland.

LVI. An Act to consolidate and amend

the laws relating to friendly societies. LVII. An Act to continue until the first day of July, 1830, the powers of the commissioners for inquiring concerning charities in England and Wales. LVIII. An Act to repeal an Act of the parliament of Ireland, of the ninth year of the reign of queen Anne, for uniting several parishes, and building several parish churches in more convenient places, so far as relates to the parishes of Oran and Drumtemple in the diocess of Elphin.

LIX. An Act to amend an Act of the seventh year of his present majesty, for consolidating the trusts of the several turnpike roads in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, north of the river Thames, and to make and maintain two new or branch roads to communicate with the said metropolis roads.

LX. An Act for raising the sum of

13,438,8001. for the service of the year 1829, and to appropriate the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

LXI. An Act to amend an Act of the seventh year of his present majesty, for extending to Charing Cross, the Strand, and places adjacent, the powers of an Act for making a more convenient communication from Maryle-bone park.

LXII. An Act to exclude persons accepting offices in the East Indies from being members of the House of Com

mons.

LXIII. An Act to render valid an Act to amend the law relating to the employment of children in cotton mills and factories.

PUBLIC ACTS,

Of a Local and Personal Nature, to be noticed by the Courts. i. An Act to amend an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled An Act for making and constructing certain wet docks, warehouses, and other works, in the parish of St. Botolph without Aldgate, and in the parish or precinct of St. Katharine near the Tower of London, in the county of Middlesex, and for extending the powers and provisions of the said Act.

ii. An Act for enabling the Edinburgh Gas-light company to raise a further sum of money; and for other purposes relating thereto.

iii. An Act for repairing, improving, and maintaining in repair the road from Brandlesome Moss Gate in the township of Elton to the Duke of York public-house in the township of Blackburn, and a branch road therefrom, all in the county palatine of Lancaster.

iv. An Act for making and maintaining a road from Rhayader in the county of Radnor to Llangerrig in the county of Montgomery.

v. An Act for more effectually supplying the inhabitants of the borough of King's Lynn with water, and for regulating the markets, and vessels using the port thereof.

vi. An Act for lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving and

regulating the hamlets or liberties of Duddeston and Nechells in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick.

vii. An Act for increasing the number of vestrymen, and regulating the nomination and appointment of vestrymen and parish officers, for the parish of St. Mary Stratford Bow, in the county of Middlesex, and providing for the better relief, maintenance, and employment of the poor of the said parish.

viii. An Act to provide for the repair and maintenance of the county hall in the county of Monmouth.

ix. An Act for building a bridge over the river Tees at Whorlton, in the county of Durham, and for making a road from Staindrop,in the said county, to Whorlton, and from thence, crossing the said bridge, to the present turnpike road at Greta Bridge, in the county of York, with a branch from Whorlton to the township of Barnard Castle in the said county of Durham, and another branch from the south end of the said bridge to the turnpike road from Winston Bridge to Sinall Ways, both in the said county of York.

x. An Act for building a bridge over the river Tyne, at or near a place called Scotswood, in the county of Northumnberland; and for making convenient roads, avenues, and approaches thereto, with branches thereout. xi. An Act for vesting a new church in the parish of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster in the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of the said town; and for authorizing the appointment of districts for the better performance of ecclesiastical duties within the said parish.

xii. An Act to alter and amend two acts of his present majesty for establishing and regulating the Imperial Gas-light and Coke Company.

xiii. An Act for better assessing and collecting the poor and other rates in the parish of Hinckley, in the counties of Leicester and Warwick. xiv. An Act for extinguishing tithes,

and payments in lieu of tithes, mortuaries, and Easter offerings, and other vicarial dues and payments, within the parish of Halifax, in the diocese and county of York; and for making compensation to the vicar in lieu thereof, and enabling him to

grant certain leases of lands belonging to the vicarage.

xv. An Act for establishing and governing an institution in Liverpool called "The School for the Indigent Blind at Liverpool;" for incorporating the subscribers thereto; and also for regulating and supporting a chapel attached to the said institution. xvi. An Act for making an embankment on the north-west side of the Leasowes, in the townships of Wallasey and Great Meols, in the county of Chester, to prevent the further encroachment of the sea, and the injury to arise therefrom to the low lands contiguous, and to the port of Liverpool.

xvii. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Barnstaple to the town or village of Braunton, in the county of Devon.

xviii. An Act for amending, altering, and improving the roads leading to the town of Okehampton, in the county of Devon, and making and maintaining a certain new road to communicate therewith.

xix. An Act for more effectually making and repairing certain roads leading to and from Bodmin, and certain other roads therein-mentioned, inthe county of Cornwall.

xx. An Act for more effectually improving and repairing the road leading from the turnpike road at Wrotham Heath, in the county of Kent, to the turnpike road leading from Croydon to Godstone, in the county of Surrey. xxi. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, and improving the road from Harlow Bush Common, in the parish of Harlow, in the county of Essex, to Stump Cross, in the parish of Great Chesterford, in the samecounty; and for making and maintaining two new lines of road communicating therewith.

xxii. An Act for repairing the road from the town of Biddenden to the turnpike road from Ashford to Feversham at Boundgate, in the county of Kent.

xxiii. An Act for repairing the road from Stockershead, at the top of Charing Hill, to a place called Bagham's Cross, in the parish of Chilhami, in the county of Kent.

xxiv. An Act for more effectually repairing, improving, and keeping in repair the road from Maidstone to

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