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THE

Statutes at Large,

FROM THE

Second to the Eighth Year of Queen ANNE.

BY

DANBY PICKERING, of GRAY'S INN, Esq;

THE

Statutes at Large,

FROM THE

Second to the Eighth Year of Queen Anne.

To which is prefixed,

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

VOL. XI.

By DANBY PICKERING, of Gray's-Inn, Esq; 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. 1764.

CUM PRIVILEGIO,

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TABLE of the STATUTES,

Containing the Titles of all fuch Acts as are extant in print, from the Second to the Eighth Year of Queen ANNE.

Anno 2 & 3 Anna.

to her Cap. 1. FOR granting an aid Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in the year one thousand seven hundred and four.

Cap. 2. For granting an aid to her Majesty, by continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for one year.

Cap. 3. For granting an aid to her Majesty, for carrying on the war, and other her Majesty's occafions, by felling annuities at several rates, and for fuch respective terms or estates as are therein mentioned.

Cap. 4. For the publick registring of all deeds, conveyances, and wills, that shall be made of any honours, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within the west riding of the county of York, after the nine and twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and four.

Cap. 5. To repeal a Proviso in an act of the fourth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, which prevents the citizens of the city of York from difpofing of their personal estates by their wills, as others inhabiting within the province of York by that act may do. Cap. 6. For the increase of seamen, and better encouragement of navigation, and security of the coal

trade.

Cap. 7. For enlarging the term of years granted by an act passed in the session of parliament, held in the eleventh and twelfth years of King William III. for the repair of Dover harbour, VOL. XI.

Cap. 8. For the erecting a workhouse in the city of Worcester, and for setting the poor on work there. Cap. 9. For granting to her Majesty an additional subsidy of tunnage and poundage for three years; and for laying a further duty upon French wines condemned as lawful prize; and for afcertaining the values of unrated goods imported from the East Indies.

Cap. 10. To enlarge the time for the purchasers of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, to make the payments of their purchase money. Cap. 11. For the making more effectual her Majesty's gracious intentions for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the revenues of the first fruits and tenths; and also for enabling any other persons to make grants for the fame purpose. Cap. 12. For the raising the militia for the year one thousand seven hundred and four, notwithstanding the month's pay formerly advanced be not repaid.

Cap. 13. For prolonging the time by an act of parliament made in the first year of her Majesty's reign, for importing thrown filk of the growth of Sicily from Leghorn.

Cap. 14. For the better fecuring and regulating the duties upon falt. Cap. 15. For the better and more regular paying and affigning the annuities, after the rate of three pounds per cent. per annum, payable to several bankers, and other patentees,

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