1805. ] 
© An A& to amend certain of the Provifions 
of an A& made in the forty-third Year of 
his prefent Majefty, to enable his Ma- 
jetty to provide for the Defence and Secu- 
rity of the Realm, which refpeé the Pur- 
chafe.of Lands and Hereditaments for the 
Public Service. 44 Geo. 3, cap. 95.” 
(Paffed July 28, 1804.) 
The obje& of this act is to regulate the 
courle of obtaining compenfations, and 
to facilitate the proceedings in refpect 
thereof, under the recited aéts. 
$6 An A& to alter, amend, and render more 
effeétual an A& paffed in the prefent Sef- 
fion of Parliament, entitled, § An Act for 
eftablifhing and maintaining a permanent 
additional Force for the Defence of the 
Realm, and to provide for augmenting his 
Majefty’s Forces, and for the gradual Re- 
duction of the Militia of England,’ fo 
far as the fame relates to the City of 
London. 44 Geo. 3, cap. 96.” (Paffed 
July 23, 1804.) 
This a& is upon the fame principle as 
the general one mentioned in the title, and 
relates only to the city of London. 
*¢ An A@ for granting additional Annuities 
to the Proprietors of Stock, created by 
two Acts pafied in the Thirty-feventh and 
Forty-fecond Years of his prefent Majefy. 
44 Geo. 3, cap. 99.” (Paffed July 28, 
1304.) aan 
This aét was paffed. for the purpole of 
paying off the holders of what was 
termed the Loyalty Loan, giving them an. 
option, as therein mentioned, of toking 
ftock in fatisfattion of their lai’: The 
terms upon which the holders of the Loy- 
alty Loan might take the benefit of this 
at having been recently publithed, by 
authority, in all the public papers, it is 
not neceflary to detail the provifions of 
the aé& in this place; more efpecially as it 
is now; ina great meafure, executed. 
* An Act for permitting, until the Firft 
-Day of Auguft, 1807, the Exportation of 
Salt from the Port of Naffau, in the Ifland 
of New Providence, the Port of #xuma, 
and the Port of Crooked Ifand, in the Ba- 
hama Iflands, in Ships belonging to the 
Inhabitants of the United States of Ame- 
rica, and coming in Balla. 44 Geo. 3, 
cap- 101.” (Paffed July 28, 1804.) 
The title of this act fully explains its 
object. 
“6 An Act for the moreveffectual Adminiftra-. 
_ tion of futtice in thofe Parts of the Urit- 
_ed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 
called England and Ireland, by the ifluing 
: ¥ Writs of Habeas Corpus ad teitifican- 
um, in certain Cafes. 44 Geo. 3, cap, 
noz,”” (Paffed July 28, 18:4.) 
New A&s of the Britih Leviflatures | 383 
Any of the Judges of the Courts of 
Law or Exchequer in England and Ire- 
Jand may award writs of habeas corpus 
for bringing perfons to he examined be- 
fore any Court of Record, as witnefics, 
or any grand, petit, or other j jury, in any 
matters, civil or criminal; and fo may 
the juitices of the quarter feffions in Wales 
or Chelter. 
*¢ An Act for the Relief of certain infolvent 
Debtors.. 44 Geo. 3, cap. 108.” (Pafied 
July 30,, 1804.) 
By this aét all perfons who were in any 
prifon on January 1, 1804, for any debt 
~ 
not amounting to a greater fum than 
1s5ool. are, on giving three notices in the 
London Gazette, and upon petition to 
the quarter- -feffions, and delivering in a 
{chedule of their eftate aad effests, to be 
afligned for the benefit of their creditors, 
to be for ever difcharged. 
But no prifoner is to be difcharged for 
debts incurred fubfequent to. the firt of 
Jan. 1804. Nor fhall any thing in the 
act be deemed to difcharee the future 
eftate or effests, real or perlonal, of an iy 
perfons diicharged under the act: and 
the creditors taal have the like remedies 
againft the future eftate and effe€is, bur 
not againft the perfon of the party; as if 
this act had not been made. 
‘© An Act to regulate the Importation and 
Exportation of Corn, and the Duties pay~ 
able thereon.. 44 Geo.. 3, cap, 109,” 
(Paffed July 30, 1804.) 
The policy. of legiflative interference 
with the growth of, or traffic, in corn, is 
doubted by many; and uron the intro- 
dution of this bill into Parliament there 
appeared to be a great difference in opi- 
nion amongit the members of both Houtes 
with refpect te the expediency of the meae 
fire. Onone fide it was contended, that 
it was not only duein juttice to the grower 
of corn, but would have a tendency te. 
promote the cultivation of tillage-land. in 
preference to meadow and pafture, and 
thereby increafe the produce of breads 
corn {a matter of the utmof nationat 
concern, from ourenlarged population). 
To this it was oppofed, “that the offer of 
a bounty on exportation would, infalli- 
bly, have the effeét of producing not only 
a {carcity for home confumption, bet an 
intolerable, or at leaft grievous, rife in 
the markets: and as the greater part of 
the multitude are rather affected by their 
own perfonal feelings and paffions than a. 
cool-and deliberate judgment, much dif2- 
content was manifcited by the public at 
this bill’s paffing into alaw; aud Mr. 
Pitt, 
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