APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



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Principal pullic acts passed in the 

 Jourth session of the seventeenth 



parliament of Great Britain. 

 Feb. 20. 



Act for raising the sum of eleven 

 millions by annuities. 

 Fd'. 21. 

 Land-tax and malt-duty bills. 

 Marine mutiny bill. 

 American trade bill. 



3^ arch 1. 



Mutiny-bill. 



An act for preventing money or 

 effects, in the hands of his ma- 

 jesty's subjects, belonging to, or 

 disposeable by, persons resident in 

 France, being applied to the use 

 of the persons exercising the powers 

 of government in France, and for 

 preserviig the property thereof, for 

 the benctit of the individual owners 

 thereof. 



An act for repea'ing the stamp- 

 duties on s;Ioves and n.ittens sold 

 by retail. 



An act for repealing the duties 

 on the registry of burials, marriages, 

 and christenings. 



March 28. 



An act for regulating the con- 

 veyance of letters by the penny- 

 post. 



Anactforau^menting ihemili'ia. 

 April 17. 



An act for encouraging and dis- 

 ciplining such corps, or companies 

 of men, as shall voluntarily enr A 

 themselves for the dt fence of their 

 counties, towns, or coasts, or for 

 the general defence of the kingdom, 

 daring the present war. 

 May g. 



An act to enable subjects of 

 France to enlist as snkliers in regi- 

 n]ents lo serve on tiie continent of 



Europe, and in certain other places 

 and to enable his majesty to grant 

 commissions to subjects of France 

 to serve and receive pay as officers 

 in such regiments, or as engineers, 

 under certain restrictions. 

 A jay 23. 



An act to enable his majesty to 

 secure and detain such persons as 

 his majesty shall su'pect are con- 

 spiring against his person and go- 

 vernment. 



An act for the better observation 

 of the Lord's day, by persons exer- 

 cising the trade of bakers. 



An act for better regulating the 

 watermen on the Thames between 

 Windsor and Gravesend. 

 June 1 1. 



An act for the better manage- 

 ment of the land revenues of the 

 crown, and for the sale of fee farms 

 and other unimprovable rents. 



An act for the farther encourage- 

 ment of the British mariners. 



An act to prevent ships of war, 

 and private ships ur vessels of w-jr 

 laken as prizes, from the payment 

 of doty. 



The insolvent act. 

 July 7. 



An act for mo^e effectually pre- 

 serving money or effects; in the 

 hands of his majesty's '•uojecis, be- 

 longingto,ordi<poseab]e by persons 

 resident in France, for the benefit 

 of the individual own rs thereof. 



.^ n act, to continue an act oi the 

 last session of parliament, respecting 

 aliens. 



An act for regulating the militia 

 of the city of London. 



An act, to continue an act, regu- 

 lating the shipping of slaves from 

 the coast of Africa. 



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