i86 A. D. 1789. 



The ad, 27 Geo. Ill, c. 38, for vefling the exclufive fale of new pat- 

 terns of printed linens, calicoes, &c. in the proprietors for a limited 

 time, was continued in force till i" July 1794. \c. 19.] 



June 24"" — A number of gentlemen having formed themfelves into a 

 fociety for the promotion of the filheries under the name of the North- 

 umberland fifhei-y fociety, they were now incorporated, and empowered 

 to fubfcribe a capital joint flock, with the ufual privileges. \c. 25.] 



July 15"" — There was raifed by a lottery this year the fum of 

 £'^']i,S62 : 10 : o, whereof ^^271, 562 : 10 : o became a clear profit to 

 the public over paying the prizes, [c. ^^.'^ 



The fum of jTi^y, 000 was alfo raifed for the public fervice upon the 

 fale of terminable annuities of £'j : 9 : 9 for every j^ioo fubfcribed, to 

 continue for 18^ years after the lo"" of Odober 1789. [c. 37.] 



Another fum of /^i, 002,500 was raifed for the public fervice by way 

 of tontine, every fubfcriber to which, for the fum of ^100: 5 : o, was 

 to be entitled to an annuity upon the life of his nominee at a rate, pro- 

 portioned to the age of the perfon, of from ^^4 : 3 : o to ^^5 : 1 2 : o, with 

 benefit of increafc arifing from furvivorfliip, till the annuity upon the 

 original fhare fhould amount to £1 ,000 a-year, the excefs then falling 

 in to the public, [c. 41 .] 



The gentlemen, who contraded with government for the whole of 

 the tontine, not being able to get it difpofed of in time, an option was 

 afterwards given to the fubfcribers to convert it into terminable annu- 

 ities for fixty-nine years. 



The powers, given to the magiflrates of the thriving port of Green- 

 ock by the ad 13 Geo. Ill, c. 28, for the purpofes of enlarging and im- 

 proving the harbour, and amending the police of the town, were alter- 

 ed and enlarged. \_c. 43.] 



Doubts having arifen, whether the feveral ads, which inflided the 

 punifhment of death on fuch as wilfully burn or deftroy fliips ; or wool- 

 en, filk, linen, or cotton, goods in the looms, &c ; or the tools and ma- 

 chines ufed in the fabrication of them, extended to Scotland, it was de- 

 clared by ad of parliament, that the perpetrators of fuch crimes were 

 equally liable to be punifhed with death in either of the united king- 

 doms, [c. 46.] 



The commiflioners, appointed, by the ad 26 Geo. Ill, c. lor, for 

 ereding four light-houfes on various parts of the north coall:, having 

 completed them ; and the one at the place called the Merchants on the 

 fouth-weft point of Kentire, though very ufeful to veflels coming from 

 the weft, being found to be of no fervice to thofe approaching the Firth 

 of Clyde from the fouth, they were now direded to build a light-houfe, 

 either upon the fouth end of the ifland of Arran, or upon the adjacent 

 fraall ifland of Plada, as fliould be found moft convenient. They were 

 alfo empowered to ered other light-houfes,> where neceffary on the Scot- 



