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SessionShort TitleTitleStatute Number
1749Against contentious suitsFor the ease in pleading troublesome and contentious suits and complaints, prosecuted against justices of the peace, magistrates, constables, and all other peace officers, for the lawful execution of their office.Not Enacted
1749Liberty of the subjectFor better securing the liberty of the subject.Not Enacted
1749Encouraging Papists to become Protestants, and enabling Papists to take long leasesFor the further encouragement of Papists to become Protestants, and for enabling Papists to take long leases.Not Enacted
1749Combinations of workmen, and brick tradeTo explain and amend an act, entitled, an act to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen, artificers, and labourers employed in the several trades and manufactures of this kingdom, and for the better payment of their wages, as also, to prevent abuses in making of bricks, and to ascertain their dimensions, and so much of an act passed in the 17th year of his present majesty, entitled, an act for continuing several statutes now near expiring, and for amending other statutes, and for other purposes therein mentioned, as relates to the said unlawful combinations, and to the payment of the wages of the persons employed in any of the trades and manufactures of this kingdom, and to prevent disputes and dissentions between masters and journeymen of the several trades and manufactures of this kingdom.Not Enacted
1749Road from Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny, to Clonmel, Co. TipperaryFor repairing and amending the high road from Hurlingford, in the county of Kilkenny, to Clonmel, in the county of Tipperary.Not Enacted
1749Additional duty, and tax on salaries to repay government loanFor payment of the principal sums of £70,000 and £58,500, in discharge for so much of the national debt, and for granting to his majesty an additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4 s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, to be applied to discharge the interest of the said principal sums, until the same shall be paid, and also to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum for the sum of £250,000, which will remain due after the payments aforesaid, and an interest of £4 per cent per annum for such further sums as may hereafter be borrowed, pursuant to an act, passed in the 19th year of his present majesty's reign, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum of £250,000.23 George II c.2
1749Additional dutyFor granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, hides, and other goods and merchandizes therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, except of the manufacture of Great Britain.23 George II c.1
1749NavigationFor granting and continuing to his majesty, several duties upon coaches, berlins, chariots, calashes, chaises and chairs, and upon cards and dice, and upon wrought and manufactured gold and silver plate, for the purposes therein mentioned.23 George II c.5
1749Hawkers and pedlars, and English Protestant schoolsFor the licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant Schools.23 George II c.4
1749MinesFor explaining and amending an act, entitled, an act for the further encouragement of finding and working mines and minerals within this kingdom.23 George II c.9
1749Qualification of office holders under act to prevent further growth of PoperyFor allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themselves, pursuant to an act, entitled, an act to prevent the further growth of Popery.23 George II c.7
1749Maintenance of bastard and foundling childrenTo provide for the maintenance of bastard and foundling children.Not Enacted
1749Protection of sheriffs against neglects of their clerks, etc.For the better securing the persons who have served, or hereafter shall serve, in the office of sheriff in this kingdom, against the defaults and neglects of their clerks, sub-sheriffs and attorneys.23 George II c.13
1749Cattle and sheep marketsFor continuing and amending an act, passed in the 10th year of the reign of his late majesty King George I, entitled, an act for regulating abuses committed in buying and selling of cattle and sheep, in the several markets in this Kingdom.23 George II c.15
1749ConstablesFor amendment of the law in relation to the appointing high and petty constables.23 George II c.14
1749Clandestine marriages, and marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priestsFor explaining and making more effectual an act, entitled, an act for the more effectual preventing clandestine marriages, and another act, passed in the 12th year of his late majesty's reign, entitled, an act to prevent marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priests, and for preventing marriages consummated from being avoided by pre-contracts, and for the more effectual punishing of bigamy.23 George II c.10
1749Coal tradeTo revive and amend an act, made in the 11th year of her late majesty Queen Anne, entitled, an act for the more effectually preventing the engrossing, forestalling, and regrating of coals imported into this kingdom.Not Enacted
1749Corn, bread and marketsFor continuing and amending an act, entitled, an act for the buying and selling of all sorts of corn and meal, and other things therein mentioned, by weight, and for more effectual preventing the frauds committed in the buying and selling thereof, and for regulating the price and assize of bread, and for better regulating the markets.Not Enacted
1749Agents, receivers, and attorneysFor better regulating agents, receivers, and attorneys.Not Enacted
1749Mercer's HospitalFor regulating the hospital founded by Mary Mercer, spinster.23 George II c.18
1749Robert Warren, William WarrenTo enable Robert Warren and William Warren, esquires, to come to a partition or division of several lands, tenements, and hereditaments in the county of Cork and in the city of Cork.23 George II c.2 (private)
1749Division of parish of St Mary, DublinFor dividing the parish of St. Mary within the city and suburbs of Dublin, into two distinct parishes.23 George II c.19
1749Flax and hempFor the further improvement of the flaxen and hempen manufacture.23 George II c.6
1749RevenueFor continuing and amending several laws hereforto made relating to his majesty's revenue, and for more effectual preventing frauds in his majesty's customs and excise.23 George II c.3
1749Continuing temporary statutesFor continuing several temporary statutes.23 George II c.8
1749Beggars and charity schoolsTo provide for begging children, and for the better regulation of charity schools, and for taking up vagrant and offensive beggars in the city of Dublin and liberties thereof, and the liberties thereto adjoining.23 George II c.11
1749Tithes and maintenance for parish clerksFor amending, continuing and making more effectual, the several acts now in force in this kingdom, for the more easy recovery of tithes and other ecclesiastical dues of small value, and also for the more easy providing a maintenance for parish clerks.23 George II c.12
1749Insolvent debtorsFor the relief of insolvent debtors.23 George II c.17
1749Infection among horned cattleTo empower the chief governor or governors for the time being, and council of this kingdom, to make such orders, rules and regulations as they shall think proper, for preventing the infection, now spreading among the horned cattle in most parts of Europe, from being brought into this kingdom, and for stopping the progress of such infection, in case it shall be brought into any part of this kingdom.Not Enacted
1749Bishops' landsTo enable archbishops and other ecclesiastical persons, to exchange and divide such of their lands, as lie interspersed, or lie in common with, or contiguous to the lands of lay persons.Not Enacted
1749Mending of turnpike roads, and securing creditors of turnpike roadsFor the more effectual amending and keeping in repair the several turnpike roads in this kingdom, and for better securing the creditors of the said roads.23 George II c.16
1749William Steuart; Rebecca Eccles otherwise Steuart; Charles StuartFor vesting part of the estate of William Steuart of the Castle of Baillyburrow in the Co. Cavan, esquire, in trustees, for raising, by sale thereof, the sum of £4000, charged upon the said estate for the portion of Rebecca Eccles otherwise Steuart, his sister, by the last will and testament of Charles Stuart, esquire, deceased, his father.23 George II c.1 (private)