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are ey a continuation of the 
limestone of Gibraltar. The neutral 
ground which connects Gibraltar with 
Spain is two or three miles in length, 
beyond which the country rises into 
round, sloping hills. The rocks, to 
the distance of ten or twelve miles to 
the north-west of Gibraltar, are va- 
rious kinds of limestone, coarser than 
the limestone of the rock, and resting 
uponit. They are stratified, the strata 
British Legislation— Laws of this Session. 
[Aug. 1, 
running north-east and south-west 
nearly. At the foot of a range of 
pretty high hills, behind, or rather 
north-north-west of Algeziras, and ten 
miles north-west from Gibraltar, I 
found some masses-of a large granular 
red and white sandstone, very like the 
old red sandstone. These masses in- 
creased in number as I ascended the 
hills ; but, as I did not proceed to the 
top, I did not discover the rock in situ. 
BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
ACTS PASSED in the FIRST YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, or in the 
THIRD SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT ef the UNITED KINGDOM. 
—>>__ 
ies VI. For continuing to his 
Majesty certain Duties on Sugar, 
Fobacco, and Snuff, Foreign Spirits, 
and Sweets, in Great Britain; and on 
Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates 
in England ; and for receiving the con- 
tributions of Persons receiving Pensions 
and holding Offices; for the Service of 
the Year 1822.—March 11, 1822. 
Cap. VII. For applying certain 
Monies therein-mentioned for the Service 
of the Year 1822.—March 11. 
Cap. VIII. For raising the Sum of 
Twenty Millions by Exchequer Bills, 
for the Service of the Year 1822.— 
March 11. : 
Treasury may raise 20,000,000. by Ex- 
chequer Bills, in like manner as is pre- 
scribed by 48 G. iii. c. 1. 
Exchequer Bills to bear an interest not 
exceeding 3d. per cent. per diem, 
Cap. IX. For transferring several 
Annuities of Five Pounds per Centum 
per Annum into Annuities of Four 
Pounds per Centum per Annum. — 
—March 15. 
Every person entitled to 1007. Navy 
five per cents. to receive 105/. new 41. 
per centuni annuities. 
Persons not dissenting to réceive the 
new 4/. per cent. annuities to be deemed 
assenting. 
Persons dissenting to signify the same 
to the Governor and Company of the 
Bank of England; and every such dis- 
sentient proprietor or proprietors, or his, 
her, or their assigns, or the executors or 
administrators of such assigns, under any 
such transfer, shall be paid off in the nu- 
merical order in which his, her, or their 
name or names shall be entered in such 
book as aforesaid, such payment to com- 
mence on the 5th day of July, 1822, and. 
to be continued at such periods and in 
such manner as Parliament may direct. 
Cap. X. To enable, in certain Cases, 
the Opening and Reading of Commis- 
sions under which the Judges sit upon 
the Circuits, after the Day appointed 
for holding Assizes.—Mareb 15. 
When commissions shall not be opened 
and read at any place specified on the day 
named therein, the same may be opened 
and read the following day, not being 
Sunday, &c.—But commissions shall be 
opened and read on the days appointed, if 
not prevented.— Where commissions shalk 
be opened under this Act, the cause of de- 
Jay shall be certified to the Lord Chan- 
cellor, &c. 
Cap. XI. For the regulating of his 
Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while 
on Shore.—March 21. 
Cap. XII. Vo indemnify such Per- 
sons in the United Kingdom as have 
omitted to qualify themselves for Offices 
and Employments, and for extending 
the Time limited for those Purposes 
respectively, until the 25th day. of 
March, 1823; and to permit such Per- 
sons in Great Britain as have omitted to 
make and file Affidavits of the Execution 
of Indentures of Clerks to Altornies and 
Solicitors, to make and file the same on 
or before the last Day of Trinity Term, 
1822, and to allow Persons to make and 
file such Affidavits, although the Persons 
whom they served shall have neglected to 
take out their Annual Certificates.— 
March 21. 
Cap. XIII. For punishing Mutiny 
and Desertion, and for the better Pay- 
ment of the Army and their Quarters.— 
March 21. 
‘Cap. XIV. For rectifying Mis- 
takes in the Names of the Land-Tux 
Commissioners, and for appointing ad- 
ditional Commissioners, and indemnify- 
ing such Persons us have acted without 
due Authority in Execution. of the Acts 
therein recited.—March 21. 
Cap. XV. For further continuing, 
until the 25th day of March, 1823, an 
Act of the 58th Year of his late Ma- 
, jesty, 
