556 A. D. 1774. 



1772, and in the fame manner, except that onlY;^88 was now offered 

 in discharge of >Cioo of the capital, for which redudion of the price 

 the ftockholders were offered fix lottery tickets for every £\ 00 of flock 

 at the price of /'12 : 10:0*. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 76.] 



An ad was pafTed for the difcharge of infolvent debtors upon faith- 

 fully giving lip their effeds to be equally divided among their creditors, 

 without prejudice of mortgages and other fuch preferable fecurities. 

 By this ad it was declared, that freehold and copyhold eftates, »nd 

 money inverted in the funds or lent upon real fecurity, fhall remain 

 liable to the claims of the creditors of fuch difcharged infolvent debt- 

 ors ; but that their perfons, and their perfonal property acquired after 

 their difcharge, fhall be exempted. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 77.] 



All the laws hitherto made for the regulation of buildings in London 

 and its vicinage being found infufficient, a very ample fet of re';ulations 

 was enacled, whereby all future buildings of whatever nature were to be 

 diftributed into feven claffes ; and giviAg very minute diredions for the 

 thicknefs, materials, &c. of everj- part of every wall in every clafs of 

 buildings v.-ithin the bills of mortality. By this ad the magiffrates are 

 direded to appoint furveyors, who are to fee that all buildings are exe- 

 cuted according to law. The ad alfo direds that ruinous honfes fliall 

 be pulled down; that fire-cocks (hall be placed in the water-pipes with 

 confpicuous notices of their fituations ; that fire engines, and a]fo pro- 

 per ladders to alhfi: people in efcaping from fire, fhall be kept in every 

 parifh : and it prefcribes rewards to be paid to the engine-keepers and 

 turncocks, who fhall be firfl, fecond, and third, in affording afliftance 

 when needed t- [14 Geo. ///,r. 78.] 



The lenders of money on the fecurity of eftates in Ireland and the 

 colonies were now entitled to receive fuch rate of intereft, as is legal in 

 the countries where the eftates are fituated, though the mortgages are 

 executed in Britain, provided they be duely regiflered in Ireland or the 

 colony wherein the property lies. [14 Geo. Ill, c. 79.] 



The province of Quebec was enlarged to its antient boundaries, 

 comprehending the vafl inland trad, which was exempted from the go- 

 vernor's authority in the year 1763, and alfo the country on the north 



• See the ad 12 Ceo. II J, c 70. they happen, and liow httle damage they do in 



f Quere, if an ni!l for cjaveitlng all terminable other towns, as crowded as London, where the 



Icaies into perpetual leafes, for a fair equivalent, houfet are built upon freeholds or perpetual leafegj 



would not be n.ore tflcCLUal in introducing a vo- I remember being told by a conliderable proprietor 



luntary cuftom (for even in fuch matters cutlom of fuch houfes, that he never made any infurance 



prevails) of creeling fafc and lubftautial buildings, upon his property ; and on my cspreffing my fur- 



than all the compulfive laws that can ever b^ con- prife that he fiiouM nm fo great a riflt, he made 



irived ? The materials are to be had in abundance it apparent, that it would not be eafy, for even a 



with as eafy a freight as wc pay for coals, an ar- wilfid incendian,-, to damage any of his houfes to 



tide of dayly confumption ; and furely no man the amount of jf 100. 



would grudge a price for materials toeredl a houfe In June 1775 twelve people were buried in the 



for the accommodation cf himfclf and his pofterity ruins of fomc houfes building in Chifwell ftreet, 



doring feveral centuries. Obferve how frequent w-bich wete too flight tolUind till the tradefmen 



sad dcftruflive fires are in London ; how feldom were done with them. 



