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TABLE OF THE Publick and Private Statutes, CONTAINING,
The TITLES of the A C T S from the First Year of the Reign of George I. to the Third Year of the Reign of George II.
PUBLICK ACTS.
Anno 1. Georgii. Stat. 1.
1.AN Act for the better Support of his Majesty's Houshold, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown of Great Britain.
2. An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of the Commiffioners for the Land-Tax for the Year 1714, and for raising so much as is wanting to make up the Sum of fourteen hundred thousand Pounds, intended to be raised by a Lottery for the publick Service in the said Year.
3. An Act to enable Persons now residing in Great Britain, to take the Oaths, and do all other Acts in Great Britain, requisite to qualify themselves to continue their respective Places, Offices and Employments in Ireland.
PUBLICK ACTS.
Anno 1. Georgii. Stat. 2.
1. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty, to be raised by a Land-Tax in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1715.
2. An Act for charging and continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year 1715. and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer-Bills, and Lottery-Tickets, lost, burnt or destroyed ; and for enlarging the Time for adjusting Claims in several Lotteries, and for making forth new Orders in Lieu of certain Lottery-Orders obliterated or defective ; and for continuing certain Duties on Hops, until the first Day of August 1715.
3. An Act: for the better regulating the Forces to be continued in his Majesty's Service, and for the Payment of the said Forces, and of their Quarters.
4. An Act to explain the Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better Securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.
5. An Act for preventing Tumults and riotous Assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing Rioters.
6. An Act for making perpetual an Act of the Seventh and eighth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Third, intituled, An Act that the solemn Affirmation and Declaration of the People called Quakers, shall be accepted instead of an Oath in the usual Form ; and for explaining and enforcing the said Act in relation to the Payment of Tithes and Church Rates ; and for appointing the Form of an Affirmation to be taken by the said People called Quakers, instead of the Oath of Abjuration.
7. An Act for continuing the Imprisonment of Robert Blackburn, and others, for the horrid Conspiracy to assassinate the Person of his late sacred Majesty King William the Third.
8. An Act to impower his Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government.
9. An Act for the better preventing Mutiny and Desertion, by enforcing and making more effectual an Act of this present Parliament, intituled, An Act for the better regulating the Forces to be continued in his Majestys Service, and for the Payment of the said Forces and their Quarters.
10. An Act for making more effecftual her late Majesty's gracious Intentions for augmenting the Maintenance of the poor Clergy.
11. An Act to restrain all Waggoners, Carriers, and others, from drawing any Carriage with more than five Horses in Length.
12. An Act for enlarging the Fund of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, relating to Exchequer-Bills; and for settling an additional Revenue of one hundred and twenty thousand Pounds per Annum upon his Majesty during his Life, for the Service of the Civil Government ; and for establishing a certain Fund of fifty-four thousand six hundred Pounds per Annum, in order to raise a Sum not exceeding nine hundred and ten thousand Pounds for the Service of the Publick, by Sale of Annuities, after the Rate of six Pounds per Centum per Annum, redeemable by Parliament ; and for satisfying an Arrear for Work and Materials at Blenheim, incurred whilst that Building was carried on at the Expence of her late Majesty
