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BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
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ACTS PASSED in the FOURTH YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH, or in the 
FOURTH SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT of the UNITED KINGDOM. 
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@ 3; XX. For fixing the Rates of 
J Subsistence to be paid to Inn- 
keepers and others on quartering Sol- 
diers. 
Cap. X XI. For granting and apply- 
ing certain Sums of Money for the 
Service of the Year 1823. 
Cap. XXII. To confirm an Agree- 
ment entered into by the Trustees under 
an Act of the lust Session of Parliament, 
for apportioning the Burthen occasioned 
by the Military and Naval Pensions, 
and Civil Superannuations, with the Go- 
vernor and Company of the Bank of 
England. 
Cap. XXIII. To consolidate the 
several Boards of Customs, and also the 
several Boards of Excise, of Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland. 
Cap. XXIV. To make more effec- 
tual Provision for permitting Goods 
imported to be secured in Warehouses, 
or other Places, without Payment of 
Duty on the first Entry thereof. 
Cap. XXV. Lor regulating the 
Number of Apprentices to be taken on- 
board British Merchant Vessels ; and 
for preventing the Desertion of Seamen 
therefrom. 
Sec. 1. so much of the 37 G. 3, ¢. 73. 
as requires the masters of vessels trading 
to the West Indies to have apprentices on- 
hoard, repealed. 
§ 2,—After Jan. 1, 1824, the number of 
apprentices shall be proportioned to the 
tonnage. 
§3.—Not to affect any Act not amended 
or repealed by this Act, by which vessels 
are required to have apprentices on-board. 
§ 4.—Apprentices exempted from im- 
pressment, 
§ 5.—Apprentice may be employed in 
any ship of which his master is captain or 
owner, and may be trausferred, 
§ 7.— Mates of ships of a certain burthen 
exempt from impressment. 
§ 9.—Deserters from ships to forfeit all 
wages, and all claims thereto. 
$11.—Wages to be paid over to Green- 
wich Hospital, and applied, if claim be not 
established before two justices within six 
months after deposit.—But persons nn- 
justly withbolding wages, to pay donble 
the amount, and treble costs. 
§ 12.—Act not to prevent seamen en- 
tering into his Majesty’s service, or subject 
them to the forfeiture of their wages. 
Cap. XXVI. To repeal the Duties 
on certain Articles, and to provide for 
the gradual Discontinuance of the Du- 
ties on certain other Articles, the Ma- 
nufacture of Great Britain and Ireland 
respectively, on their Importation into 
either Country from the other. 
Cap. XXVIII. To amend an Act 
passed in the 7th year of the Reign of his 
late Majesty King George the Third, 
respecting Justices of the Quorum wm 
Cities and Towns Corporate. 
Cap. XXVIII. For the more speedy 
Reduction of the Number of Serjeants, 
Corporals, and Drummers, in the Mili- 
tia of Ireland, when not in actual 
Service. 
Cap. X XIX. To increase the Power 
of Magistrates, tn Cases of Apprentice- 
ships. 
Cap. XXX. To regulate the Impor- 
tation and Exportation of certain Arti- 
cles subject to’ Duties of Excise, and 
certain other Articles the Produce or 
Manufacture of Great Britain and Ire- 
land respectively, into and from either 
Country from and to the other. 
Cap. XXXI. Zo amend an Act 
passed in the 19th year of the Reign of 
his late Majesty King George the Second, 
intituled “An Act more effectually to 
prevent profane Cursing and Swearing.” 
Provision of recited Act requiring the 
same to be read quarterly in all parish 
churches, &c. repealed, 
Cap. XXXII... For the amendment 
of the Laws respecting Charitable: Loan 
Societies in Freland., ys 
Cap. XX XIII. To make more effec- 
tual Regulations for the Election, and to 
secure the Performance of the Duties, of 
County Treasurers in Freland. 
Cap. XXXIV. To enlarge the 
Powers of Justices in determining Com- 
plaints between Masters and Servants, 
and between Masters, Apprentices, Arii- 
ficers, and others. ‘ 
Cap. XXXV. To enable Trustees or 
Commissioners under Acts of Parliament 
to meet and carry such Acts into Bxecu- 
tion, although they may not have’ met 
according to'the Direetions of such Acts. 
Cap. XXXVI. To discourige the 
granting of Leases in Joint Tenantey in 
Ireland. 
Cap. XXXVII. To amend an Act 
for the more speedy Return and Levying 
of Hines, Penalties, and Forfeitures, 
and Recognizances estreated, 
Cap. 
