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unwarrantable pradices therein mentioned and defcribed, and for pre- 

 venting the Hke for the future ; whereby, * the prefuming to act as a 

 corporate body, or to make transfers or alignments of (hares, with- 

 out legal authority, or the pretending to adl under any charter, for- 

 merly granted from the crown for any particular or fpecial purpofes 

 therein exprefled, by perfons endeavouring to make ufe of fuch char- 

 ter for any fuch other purpole not thereby intended, and all ading 

 under any fuch obfolete charter herein defcribed, fhould be deemed 

 to be public nuifances, and to be triable accordingly, as by the fta- 

 tute of the 1 6th year of King Richard II. And whereas doubts have 

 arifen whether that ad does extend to his majefty's dominions in 

 America,' it was now enaded, (r4th of King George II, for reftrain- 

 ing and preventing feveral unwarrantable fchemes and undertakings in 

 his majefty's colonies and plantations in America) ' that the faid ad of 

 ' the 6th of King George I, and every part thereof, fliall extend to Bri- 

 ' tifh America, and the contraveners fhall be liable to the like fines, 

 ' punifhments, &c. to be tried in the king's courts in America.' This 

 was a prudently-intended law : for, as our colonies grow greater and 

 more populous, projeds might get into their heads, which would prove 

 very detrimental to the induftry and parfimony neceflary to fuch co- 

 lonies. 



As the remote weft and north-weft parts of the coafts of Great Bri- 

 tain and Ireland, and the ifles thereunto belonging, were found to be 

 inaccurately laid down in the fea-charts, a ftatute pafl^ed [14 Geo. II, c. 

 39] for furveying the chief ports and headlands on the coafts of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, and the iflands and plantations thereto belong- 

 ing, in order to the more exad determination of the longitude and la- 

 titude thereof. The ad recites the ftatute of the 12th of Queen Anne, 

 for providing a public reward for fuch perfons as ftiall difcover the lon- 

 gitude at fea, which direds the commiflioners of the na^y to fet apart 

 L2000 for making experiments towards finding out the faid longitude ; 

 and the commillioners for difcovering the longitude are empowered to 

 apply fuch part of the faid L2000 as has not already been laid out in 

 experiments for making fuch furvey, and determining the longitude 

 and latitude of the faid chief ports and headlands. It is even ftill to 

 be apprehended, that fome parts on the Britifti fhores, and more efpe- 

 cially the weftern coafts of Britain and Ireland, require a more accurate 

 furvey ; but more than the whole fum herein named would be required 

 to execute that neceflary point to effedual purpofe. 



There were married in the year 1741 at Amfterdam 2666 couples 

 of perfons, and buried 9864 perfons. 



There arrived chis year at Amfterdam 1 8 1 3 ftiips, as by the Dutch 

 newfpapers, viz. 



