~~ 
640 
peace, additional duties on the im- 
portation and exportation of certain 
goods, wares, and merchandize, and 
on the tonnage of ships and vessels 
in Gt. Britain. 
For granting to his majesty the 
sum of 20,000l. to be issued and ap- 
plied towards making roads and 
building bridges in the Highlands of 
Scotland, and for enabling the pro- 
prietors of land in Scotland to charge 
their estates with a proportion of 
the expences of making, and keep- 
ing in repair, roads and bridges in 
the Highlands of Scotland. 
' To repeal the duties of excise pay- 
able in Gt. Britain, and to grant 
other duties in lieu thereof. 
To amend an aét, passed in the 
42d year of the reign of his present 
majesty, intituled, ‘* An a¢t to re- 
peal an aét, passed in the 25th year 
of the reign of his present majesty, 
for granting stamp duties on certain 
medicines, and for charging ather 
duties in lieu thereof, and for mak- 
ing effectual provision for the better 
collection of the said duties.” | 
For making allowances, in cer- 
tain cases, to subaltern officers of 
the militia of Gt. Britain, while dis- 
embodied. , 
For augmenting the number of 
field-officers, and other officers of 
militia, within Gt. Britain. 
For further regulating the admi- 
nistration of the oath or aflirmation 
required to be taken by electors of 
members to serve in parliament, by 
an aét passed jn the second year of 
K. George II. intituled, ‘* An act 
for the more effectually preventing 
bribery and. corruption in the elec- 
tion of members to serve in parlia- 
ment.”? ' 
For making more effectual provi- 
sion within Ireland for the punish- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
ment of offences in wilfully casting 
away, sinking, burning, or destroy- 
ing ships and vessels, and for the 
more convenient trial of accessories 
in felonies. 
For continuing until the Ist July, 
1804, an act passed in the 42d year 
of the reign of his present majesty, 
intituled, “* An act for regulating, 
until the 15th Feb. 1800. the prices 
at which grain, meal, and flour may 
be exported from Gt, Britain to Ire- 
land, and from Ireland to Gt. Bri- 
tain ;”’ and also, an aét made in the 
present session of parliament, for 
continuing the said act, and for per- 
mitting the exportation of seed corn 
from Gt. Britain to Ireland, and the 
importation of malt into Gt. Britain 
from Ireland. 
For transferring to the royal navy 
such seamen as are now serving in 
the militia of Ireland. 
To indemnify persens who have 
omitted to qualify themselves for 
offices or employments in Ireland, 
according to law. 
To authorise the sale or mortgaga 
of the estates of persons found luna- ¢ 
‘tic by inquisition, in England or 
Ireland, respectively, and the grant- 
ing of leases of the same. 
To extend the provisions of two 
acts, passed in the 39th, and 40th, 
and in the 41st years of the reign of 
his present majesty, relating to the 
use of horse hides in making boots 
and shoes, and preventing the da- 
mages of raw hides and skins, in the 
flaying thereof, and to alter and 
amend the same as to the cities of 
London and Westminster, and bo- 
rough of Southwark, and liberties 
thereof, and all places within fifteen 
miles of the Royal Exchange of the 
said city of London. 
For raising and securing a fo 
or 
