APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 



497 



Public Acts passed in the Fifth 

 Session of the Eighteenth Parlia- 

 ment of Great Britain. 



November 24, I8O6. 



An act to prohibit, until l8t No- 

 vember, 1801, the exportation of 

 rice ; and to indemnif)'^ all persons 

 who have been concerned in pre- 

 venting the exportation thereof, or 

 in the non-performance of any con- 

 tracts and agreements that shall not 

 have been performedin consequence 

 thereof. 



To authorize his majesty, from 

 time to time, to prohibit the ex- 

 portation of provisions or food. 

 December 8. 



To prohibit, until the 1st Janu- 

 ary, 1802, the use of corn in distil- 

 ling of spirits or making of starch. 



For suspending, until 20th Au- 

 gust, 1801, the duties on liops im- 

 ported, and for charging other duties 

 in lieu thereof. 



For continuing, until the expira- 

 tion of forty days after the com- 

 mencement of the first session of 

 parliament that shall be begun and 

 holden after 1st September 1801, 

 several laws relating to the prohi- 

 biting the exportation, and per- 

 mitting the importation, of corn and 

 other articles of provision, without 

 payment of duty ; to the allowing 

 the use of sugar in the brewing of 

 beer; to the reducing the duties 

 upon spirits distilled from molasses 

 and sugar ; and to the prohibiting 

 the making of low wines or spirits 

 from wheat, and certain other ar- 

 ticles, in that part of Great Britain 

 called Scotland. 



For shortening, until 25thMarch, 

 1801, the time of keeping in steep, 

 for malting, barley damaged by rain 

 in the late harvest. 



For continuing and granting to 



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his majesty certain duties upon 

 malt, mum, cider, and perry, for 

 the service of the year 1801. 



For continuing and granting to 

 his majesty a duty on pensions, 

 offices, and personal estates, in Eng- 

 land, Wales, and the town of Ber- 

 wick-upon-Tweed ; and certain 

 duties on sugar, malt, tobacco, and 

 snuffy for the service of the year 

 1801. 



To explain and amend an act 

 made in the twenty-second year of 

 the i-eign of his present majesty, in- 

 tituled, "An act for the better relief 

 and employment of the poor." 

 December 15. 



For granting bounties on the im- 

 portation of wheat, barley, rye, 

 oats, pease, beans, and Indian corn, 

 and of barley, rye, oat, and Indian 

 meal, and wheaten flour and rice. 



To permit, until 1st October, 

 1801, the importation of herrings 

 and other fish, the produce of the 

 fishery carried on in Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, Newfoundland, 

 and on the coast of Labrador, into 

 this kingdom, without payment of 

 duty. 



December 22. 



For making better provision for 

 the maintenance of the poor, and 

 for diminishing the consumption of 

 bread corn, by directing the manner 

 of applying parish relief; until Cth 

 November, 1801, and from thence 

 until the end of six weeks after the 

 meeting of the then next session of 

 parliament. 



To enable commissioners to pur- 

 chase certain buildings for the ac- 

 commodation of the two houses of 

 parliament. 



December 31. 



For raising a certain sum of mo- 

 ney by loans or exchequer-bills, for 

 the service of the year one thousand 



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