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and a fixed «nm carried to the Civil List 

 revenue, and the remainder to the Conso- 

 lidated Fund. — The Trea--nry may appoint 

 an officer to andit tlie Civil List accoiints>; 

 but such officer not to sit in Parliament, 



Cap. XLVIL For raising the Sum 

 tf One Million Two Hundred T/wtisand 

 Pounds Irish Cnrrencij, by Treasury 

 Bills, for the Service of Ireland, for the 

 Year Om Thousand Eight Hundred and 

 Sixteen. — June 20. 



Cap. XLVIII. To continue, until 

 Three Mouths after the ceasitig of any 

 Restriction imposed on the Hank of' 

 England from issu ng Cash in Payment, 

 the several A cts for confirming and con- 

 tinuing the Restrictions on Payments in 

 Cash by the Bank of Ireland. — June 20. 



Cap. XLIX. To explain and amend 

 en Act, passed in the last Session of 

 Parliament, for the more easy assessing, 

 eollecting, and levying of County Rates, 

 — June 20. 



Extra-parocliial and other places, though 

 not deemed rateable to the relief of the 

 poor, subject to be rated to the county 

 rate. — Justices in general, or quarter ses- 

 sions, to appoint justices to fix and deter- 

 mine boundaries between counties, ridings, 

 <livisions or parts of counties, and other 

 places of distinct and separate jurisdiction, 

 — In case of difference between justices, 

 a referee to be appointed to meet tlieni, 

 and determine boundary. 



Cap. L. To regulate the Sale of 

 Farming Stock taken in Execution. — 

 June 20. 



No sheriff or other officer shall sell or 

 cany off from any lands any straw, chaff, 

 or turnips, in any case, nor any hay or 

 other produce contrary to the covenant, — 

 Tenant to give notice of the existence of 

 covenants; and sheriff to give notice to 

 the owner or landlord. — Sheriff may dis- 

 pose of produce, subject to an agreement 

 to expend it on tlie land,— Sheriff to as- 

 sign agreement to landlord, and to enquire 

 as to the name and residence of the land- 

 lord. — Landlords not to distrain for rent 

 on purchasers of crops severed from the 

 BOil, or other things sold subject to agree- 

 iiwnt. — Slierjff not to sell any clover, &c. 

 growing with corn.— Assignee of bank- 

 rupt, fitc, not to take any crop in any 

 •ther way than the bankrupt would have 

 been entitled to do. 



Cap. LL To amend an Act passed in 

 the present Session of Parliament, inti- 

 tuled an A I't to carry into Effect a Coih- 

 ventioH of Commerce concluded between 

 Hit Majesty and tlie United States of 

 America. — June 20. 



From and after the passing of this Act, 

 all vessels built in the countries belongiug 

 to the United States of America, or any 

 *f them, or taken by any of the ships or 



vessels of war belonging to the said go- 

 vernment, or any of the inhabitants of the 

 said States, having commissions or letters 

 oi marque and reprizal from the govern- 

 ment of the said States, and condemned 

 as lawful prize in any Court of Admiralty 

 there, such ship or vessel being owned by 

 a subject or subjects of the said States, or 

 any of them, and whereof the master and 

 three-fourths of tlie mariners are also sub- 

 jects of the said States, shall be allowed 

 to clear out from any Port of the United 

 Kingdom for the following principal Set- 

 tlements of the Biitisli dominions in the 

 East Indies; videlicet, Calcutta, Madras, 

 Bombay, and Prince of VValess Island, 

 with any goods, wares, or merchandize, 

 which may be legally exported fiom the 

 United Kingdom to the said Settlement* 

 in British-built vessels, subject to the like 

 rules and regulations, restrictions, penal- 

 ties, and forfeitures, as are now by lavr 

 inipos4>d upon the exportation of such 

 goods to the said Settlements in British- 

 built ships ; any law, cuNtom, or usage to 

 the contrary notwithstanding. 



Cap. LI I. To amend and render more 

 effectual an Act passed in the last Session 

 of Parliament, for enabling Spiritual 

 Persons to exchange their Parsonage 

 Houses or Glebe Lands, and for otiter 

 Purposes therein mentioned. — June 20. 



It shall and may be lawful for the in- 

 cimibent of any benefice, i>erpelnal cu- 

 racy, or parochial chapelry, with the con- 

 sent of the patron of such benefice, per- 

 petual curacy, or parochial cuapeby, and 

 of the bishop of the diocese wherein the 

 same is locally situate, or of the arch- 

 bishop or bishop to whom the peculiars 

 wherein such benefice, perpetual curacy, 

 or parochial chapelry is situate shall belong, 

 (such consent to be signified in manner 

 as in the 55 Geo. III. cap. 147, is men- 

 tioned), to pay and apply tlic monies to 

 arise by sale of any timber cut and sold 

 from the glebe lands of such benefice, 

 perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, 

 or from any other land, whether copyhold, 

 holden under any manor of such benefice, 

 perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, 

 or otherwise, the timber wheieof belongs 

 to such benefice, perpetual curacy, or 

 parochial chapelry, either for equality of 

 exchange, or towards and in part of equa- 

 lity of exchange, or for the price or pur- 

 chase money, or towards and in part of 

 the price or purchase money of any house, 

 outbuildings, yards, gardens, and appur- 

 tenances, or any lands, or any or either of 

 theui, by the said Act aulhoiized to be 

 taken in exchange or lo be purchased, 

 and from and after such exchange or pur- 

 chase to be annexed to and to be and 

 become the parsonage and glebe house 

 and glebe lands and premises of such bene- 

 fice, perpetual curacy, or parochial cha«el. 

 ry, ij»m the said tecited Act is mentioned. 

 KEVIEW 



