324 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



JURISPRUDENCE. 



I. Abstract of the Public Laivs enacted by the British Legislature.- 

 Passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of George the Third. 



Chap. 1. — For continuing cer- 

 tain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, 

 and snufF, in Great Britain; and on 

 pensions, offices, and personal es- 

 tates, in England ; for the service 

 of 1810. 



2. For raising 10,500,000/. by 

 exchequer bills, for the service of 

 Great Britain for 1810. 



3. Ditto 1,500,000/. ditto. 



4. To indemnify such persons in 

 the United Kingdom as have omit- 

 ted to qualify themselves for offices 

 and employments, and for extend- 

 ing the times limited for those pur- 

 poses respectively, until the 25th 

 of March, 1811 ; and to permit 

 such persons in Great Britain, as 

 have omitted to make and file affi- 

 davits of the execution of inden- 

 tures of clerks to attornies and soli- 

 citors, to make and file the same 

 on or before the first day of Hilary 

 Term, 1811. 



5. To prohibit the distillation of 

 spirits from corn or grain in Great 

 Britain, for a limited time ; and to 

 continue, until four months after 

 such prohibition, an act of last ses- 

 sion of parliament, to suspend the 

 importation of British or Irish 

 made spirits into Great Britain 

 and Ireland. 



6. To enable the Prince of 

 Wales to grant leases of certain 

 lands and premises called Prince's 

 Meadows, in the parish of Lam- 

 beth, in Surrey, for the purpose of 

 buiiding thereon. 



7. For punishing mutiny and 

 desertion, and for better payment 

 of the army and their quarters. 



8. For settling and securing a 

 certain annuity on viscount Wel- 

 lington, and the two next persons 

 to whom the title shall descend, in 

 consideration of his eminent ser- 

 vices. 



9. To continue, until the 25th 

 of March, 1811, so much of an 

 act of the 47th of his present ma- 

 jesty, as allows a bounty on British 

 plantation raw sugar exported. 



10. For making perpetual cer- 

 tain of the provisions of an act, 5 

 George I. for preventing clandes- 

 tine running of uncustomed goods, 

 and for frauds relating to the cus- 

 toms. 



1 1. To continue, until the 25th 

 of March, 1815, several laws re- 

 lating to the encouragement of the 

 Greenland whale-fisheries. 



12. To continue, untd the 25th 

 of March, 1812, an act, 46th of his 

 present majesty, for permitting the 

 importation of masts, yards, bow- 

 sprits, and timber for naval pur- 

 poses, from the British colonies in 

 North America, duty free. 



13. To continue an act, 44th of 

 his present majesty, for permitting 

 the exportation ofsal t from the port 

 of Nassau, in the island of New 

 Providence, the port of Exuraa, 

 and the port of Crooked island, 

 in the Bahama islands, in Ameri- 

 can ships coming in ballast ; and 



