1824.) 
within the limits of the parish or chapelry 
which shall be li¢ensed by the bishop of the 
diocese for the performance of divine ser- 
viee during the repair or rebuilding of the 
church as aforesaid, but .it is not provided 
that marriages may be solemnized in such 
places so licensed : AQ Oe 
All licences granted by any archbishop, 
bishop, or other ordinary or person having 
authority to grant such licences for the so- 
lemnization of marriages in the church of any 
parish, or chapel of any chapelry wherein 
marriages have been .usually solemnized, 
shall be deemed and taken to be licences 
for the solemnization of ‘marriages in any 
place within the limits of such parish - or 
chapelry, which shall be. licensed .by the 
bishop of the diocese forthe performance of 
divine *service during the repair or rebuild- 
ing of any such church or chapel, or, if no 
such place shall be so licensed, then in the 
church or chapel of any. adjoining parish 
or chapelry wherein marriages have been 
usually solemnized. 
All banns of mafriage;proclaimed, and all 
marriages solemnized according to the pro- 
visions of this act, in any place licensed as 
aforesaid, within the limits-of any parish or 
chapelry, during the repair or rebuilding of 
the church or chapel of such parish or cha- 
pelry, shall be considered as proclaimed and 
solemnized in the church or chapel of. such 
parish or chapelry, and shall be so regis- 
tered accordingly. 
Cap. XXXVII. The Alien Act. 
By this act, the 56 Geo. III. c. 86, inti- 
tuled, “ An Act for establishing Regulations 
respecting Aliens arriving in and resident in 
this Kingdom, in certain cases, for two years 
from the passing of this Act, and until the 
end of the Session of Parliament, in which 
the said two years shall expire, if Parliament 
shall be then sitting,” (which by the 58 Geo. 
IIL. c. 96, was further continued for the 
term of two years; and by the 1 Geo. IV. ec. 
105, was further continued for the further 
term of two years; 3 Geo. IV. ce: 97, was 
continued for the further term of two years), 
is further continued in force, from the expi- 
ration thereof, for the term of two years. 
Cap. XLIV. For allowing persons. to 
compound for their Assessed Taxes for 
the remainder of the periods of Compo- 
_ silion limited by former Jets, and for 
granting relief in certain cases. 
Whereas by an act passed in the last ses- 
sion of Parliament, (4 Geo. 1V. ec. 45), the 
persons therein described, who had not en- 
tered into composition within the times 
limited by former acts were authorized, by 
giving notice on or before the Ist Septem- 
ber 1623, to compound on their respective 
assessments for the year commencing 5th 
April 1823, for the then remainder of the 
periods in the said acts named: and 
‘Whereas it is expedient further to extend the 
provisions of the said acts, for enabling per- 
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sons now to enter into composition for the 
remainder of the said periods which were 
unexpired on the Sth April 1824, in. the 
manner herein provided ; it is, therefore, 
enacted, that any person or persons who 
shall be duly assessed to the said rates and 
duties for the year commencing the 5th 
April 1824, and who shall give thé notice of 
their intention to compound within the time 
and inthe manner hereinafter provided, may 
compound for the rates and duties. assessed 
on their dwelling-house for the term of four 
years, and for their other assessed taxes al- 
lowed. to. be compounded for for the term of 
three years respectively, to commence from 
the 5th April 1824, together with an addi- 
tional annual duty of one shilling for every 
twenty shillings of the’ respective amounts 
so assessed, and so after that rate for any 
greater or lesser sum than twenty shillings. 
Cap.'XLVII. To alter the laws re- 
lating to the Duties on the Importation, 
and the Prohibitions. on the Exportation 
of Wool, and of Hare and Coney Skins. 
That, from and after the 10th September 
1824, the several duties of customs now 
payable on the importation into any part of 
the United Kingdom of sheep or lambs 
wool, and of goats or camels hair or wool, 
and of hare and coney wool, and of hare 
skins, shall cease and determine ; save and 
except so far as shall relate to the reeover- 
ing of any arrears thereof, or any fine, pe- 
nalty, or forfeiture relating thereto, which 
may remain unpaid, or which shall have 
been incurred at any time before. the said 
10th September 1824; and that, from and 
after the said 10th September 1824,- there 
shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid 
unto his majesty, his heirs and successors, 
upon the several sorts of waol or hair and 
skins specified in the Tuble to this act an- 
nexed, imported into any part of the United 
Kingdom, the several duties of customs as 
the same are respectively set forth in figures 
in the said table. > ; 
Cap. L. Assize of Bread. 
Whereas by reason of the great decrease 
that has taken place. in the prices of the 
‘several articles in the making and baking of 
bread since the passing of the said act of 
the 53 Geo. III. it is necessary and expe- 
dient that the makers and bakers of bread 
for sale should receive a less allowance for 
their charges, labour, pains, and profit, than 
is granted by the said act; it is enacted, 
That from and after the Ist July, 1824, the 
allowance to the baker, when the assize 
shall be set from the average price of wheat, 
shall be thirteen shillings and ten-pence far- 
thing per quarter, and when the assize shall 
be set from the average price of flour, such 
allowance shall be eleven shillings and eight- 
pence per sack of flour, being in each case 
a decrease of one half an assize, or of one 
farthing in the quartern loaf, of the’ allow- 
‘ance given to the baker by the act of the 
53 Geo. III. 
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