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importations from, and exportations to the places within the limits of the charter of the East India Company, in ships not of British-built, and for the better maintenance and care of Lascars and other Asiatic seamen arriving in this kingdom.

135. To further explain and amend an Act of the fiftieth year of his present Majesty's reign, for repealing certain parts of several Acts relating to the limiting the number of persons to be carried by stage-coaches in Ireland.

136. For enabling the commissioners of the northern light-houses to purchase the island and light of May, at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, for enabling the commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain sum of money towards that purpose, and for amending several acts in regard to the northern light-houses

137. For rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. 138. To enable the trustees appointed by an Act of the 49th year of his present Majesty, for the improvement of the passage across the Frith of Forth, called the Queensferry, to carry the same into execution. 139. To rectify a mistake in an Act of this session of parliament, for raising the sum of 24 millions by way of annuities. 140. To amend several acts of the parliament of Ireland, for granting certain annuities. 141. To alter so much of an Act, made in the fifty-second year of his present Majesty, as relates to the duties payable in respect of killing of game.

142. To permit the exportation of tea to the British colonies in America, Guernsey, Jersey, Europe, and Africa, without payment of duty.

143. To repeal the duties granted by an Act passed in the 11th year of his present Majesty, for repairing, amending, and supporting the several harbours and sea-ports in the isle of Man, and for granting new duties in lieu thereof; and for giving further powers to the commissioners appointed under the said Act.

144. For better securing the stamp duties on

sea insurances made in London, and for altering the period for taking out stamp office certificates by attornies and others in England.

145. To take away corruption of blood save in certain cases.

146. To alter the punishment in certain cases of high treaso..

147. For the better regulation of the drivers

of licensed hackney coaches; for explaining and amending an Act passed in the 48th year of his present Majesty, relating to hackney coaches; and for authorizing the licensing of a limited number of hackney chariots.

148. For imposing an excise duty on silk handkerchiefs sold by the East India company for home consumption.

149. To regulate, until the end of the next session of parliament, the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland, reciprocally.

150. To consolidate and amend the regulations contained in several acts of parliament, for imposing and levying of fines upon parishes, townlands, and other places, in respect of the unlawful distillation of spirits in Ireland.

151. To repeal an Act passed in the 52nd year of his present Majesty for better regulating the office of agent-general for volunteers, aud local militia, and for the more ef fectually regulating the said office, and to make further provisions for the regulation of the office of agent-general.

152. To repeal certain parts of an Act made in the 12th year of the reign of his present Majesty, for regulating the making, keeping, and carriage of gun-powder within Great Britain.

153. To regulate the payment of drawback on paper allowed to the universities in Scotland.

154. For further amending and enlarging the powers of an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for consolidating and rendering more effectual the several Acts for the purchase of buildings and further improvement of the streets and places near to Westminster-hall, and the two Houses of Parliament, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

155. To repeal an Act for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in or resident in this kingdom, in certain cases, and for substituting other provisions until the end of the next session of parliament in lieu thereof.

156. To amend the several Acts for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies and copy-wright of printed books, to the authors of such books, or their assigns. 157. For the better regulation of the conduct of the business of the office of works, and the expenditure thereof.

158. To continue, for one year, certain Acts for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces by sea or land from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience. 159. For the better regulation of the several ports, harbours, road-steads, sounds, channels, bays, and navigable rivers in the United Kingdom, and of his Majesty's docks, dock-yards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, and stores therein, and for repealing several Acts passed for that purpose.

160. To enable his Majesty to settle an annuity upon her royal highness the Princess of Wales during the joint lives of his Majesty and of her Royal Highness.

161. For settling and securing an annuity on Arthur duke of Wellington, and his heirs and for empowering the Lord High

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Treasurer, or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, to advance out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain a sum of money in lieu of such annuity to purchase an estate, in order to accompany the said title, in consideration of the eminent and signal se:vices performed by the said duke of Wellington, to his Majesty and to the public; and for making further provision for the disposal of a sum of money granted by an Act of the last session of parliament, for pur. chasing an estate for the said duke, then marquis of Wellington.

162. For settling and securing an annuity on lord Beresford, and the persons to whom the title of lord Beresford shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services. 163. For settling and securing an annuity on lord Combermere, and the two next persons to whom the title of lord Combermere shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

164. For settling and securing an annuity

on lord Exmouth, and the persons to whom the title of lord Exmouth shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services. 165. For settling and securing an annuity on lord Hill, and the persons to whom the title of lord Hill, shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

and for making further provision for the redemption thereof.

174. For letting to farm the post-horse duties. 175. To explain and amend several Acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England, for one year, and from thence until six weeks after the meeting of the then next session of parliament.

176. For defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the local militia in Great Britain for the year 1814.

177. For defraying 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. 178. To continue so much of an Act, made in the 43rd year of his present Majesty's reign, for authorizing the billetting and subjecting to military discipline certain yeomanry corps and officers of cavalry or infantry, as relates to such corps in Ireland. 179. To amend an Act passed in the 49th year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for amending and reducing into one Act of parliament the several laws for raising and training the militia of Ireland. 180. To provide for the preserving and restoring of peace in such parts of Ireland as may at any time be disturbed by seditious persons, or by persons entering into unlaw ful combinations or conspiracies.

181. To render more easy and effectual redress for assaults in Ireland.

166. For settling and securing an annuity on lord Lynedoch, and the persons to whom the title of lord Lynedoch shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services. 167. For applying a certain sum of money arisen, or to arise from certain duties grant-182. To continue, until the 25th day of ed to his Majesty during the continuance of the present war, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1814; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

168.

To amend the laws respecting the attestation of instruments of appointment and revocation made in exercise of certain powers in deeds, wills, and other instruments. 169.

For making certain regulations respecting the postage of ship-letters, and of Jetters in Great Britain.

170. To repeal certain provisions in local

Acts for the maintenance and regulation of the poor, and to make other provisions in relation thereto.

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March, 1816, an Act for regulating the trade to the Isle of Malta; and to revive and continue, for the same period, several Acts relating to the trade to the Cape of Good Hope; and to the bringing and landing certain prize goods in Great Britain. 183. To impose a countervailing duty of excise on bleaching powder imported from Ireland.

184. For the effectual examination of accounts of the receipt and expenditure of the colonial revenues in the islands of Ceylon, Mauritius, Malta, Trinidad, and in the settlements of the Cape of Good Hope, for five years.

185. To allow a bounty on the exportation from Great Britain of British made cordage. 186. For the more easy apprehending and trying of offenders escaping from one part of the United Kingdom to the other. 187. To revive and continue, until the 1st day of June, 1820, and to amend several Acts for the more effectual prevention of depredations on the river Thames and its vicinity.

188. For enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the service of Great Britain, and for applying the sum of 200,000l. British currency for the service of Ireland,

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189. 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 June, 1815.

190. For appointing commissioners for carry-
into execution an Act of this session of par-
liament, for granting to his Majesty a duty
on pensions and offices in England; and an
Act made in the 38th year of his present
Majesty, for granting an aid to his Majesty
by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain,
for the service of the year 1798.

INDEX

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Cochrane, Lord, 50, 61, 121, 130, 212, 232,

424, 512, 663, 761.
Combermere, Lord, 608, 622.
Copy Right Bill, 684, 751.

Corn Laws, 7, 479.

Irish Preservation of the Peace Bill, 646,
686, 739, 803.

Johnstone, Mr. Cochrane, 606.

Ley, Mr.; Death of, 61.

Le Marchant, Mr. 62, 121.
London Prisons' Bill, 70, 529.

Mad-houses' Bill, 88, 661, 674, 859.

Mallison, Mr. 861, 864.

Manby, Captain; his Experiments for saving
the Lives of Seamen, 44, 104, 121.
Mesne Process, 258, 826, 879.
Metropolis; State of the Streets of the, 374.
Midshipmen, 801.

M'Rae, Alexander; Petition of, 558.

Negociations at Chatillon, 54.
Northern Light-Houses Bill, 513.
Norway, 878.

Office of Works' Bill, 419.

Corruption of Blood on Attainder of Felony Offices in Reversion, 791.

and Treason, Appr. cxli.

Cotton Trade, 613.

Exmouth, Lord, 608, 635.

Orange-men in Ireland; Societies of, S4, 245.
Ordnance Estimates, 533.

Parks; Preparations in the, 480, 696, 837.

Fane, Major General Henry; Thanks of the Picton, Sir Thomas; Thanks of the House to,

House given to, 843.

Fees of Courts of Justice, 11, 91, 375.

Flogging in the Army, 131, 261.

Foreign Troops, 38.

209,

Poor Clergy, 725.

Poor Relief Bill, 95, 677-Appx.clxxxvii.

Post Office, 485, 624, 682.

France, Treaty of Peace with, 85, 173, 432, Post Office Packets, 758.

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Prince Regent's Message respecting the Ger-
man Sufferers, 701, 716.

High Treason; Bill on the Punishment of, Prince Regent's Message for a Vote of Credit,

Appr. lxxxi, clxxvii.

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750.

Princess of Wales, 39, 56, 98, 131, 424, 514,

607, 636, 702, 793, 823, 874.

Princess Charlotte of Wales, 104.

Pringle, Major; Thanks of the House to, 208.

Punishment of High Treason Bill, Appr.
lxxxi, clxxvii.

Roman Catholic Petition, 487.

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