43 Matching Records |
Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
1721 | Additional duty | For granting and continuing to his majesty the additional duties on beer, ale, strong waters, tobacco, and other goods and merchandises, and also upon all sorts of wine, strong waters, and spirits perfectly made, and upon all spirits made and distilled of wine, and also for granting and continuing the further additional duties on beer, ale, aqua vitae, and strong waters, brewed and made in this kingdom, and upon brandy or spirits above proof, and on tea, coffee, chocolate, and cocoa-nuts, and also a tax on all salaries, profits of employments, fees, and pensions therein mentioned, and for securing the repayment of £50,000 sterling formerly advanced to his late majesty, for the use of the public, together with the interest thereof. | 8 George I c.1 |
1721 | Frauds by tenants | For amending an act, entitled, an act to explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for the more effectual preventing frauds committed by tenants. | 8 George I c.2 |
1721 | Quarantine of ships and prevention of plague | To oblige ships coming from infected places more effectually to perform their quarantine, and for the better preventing of the plague being brought from foreign parts into this kingdom. | 8 George I c.3 |
1721 | Quieting possessions, and preventing vexatious suits | For the more effectual quieting and securing possessions, and preventing vexatious suits at law. | 8 George I c.4 |
1721 | Fences between neighbouring lands | To oblige proprietors and tenants of neighbouring lands to make fences between their several lands and holdings. | 8 George I c.5 |
1721 | Amendment of the law, and for continuing and amending expiring acts | For the further amendment of the law, and for continuing and amending several acts near expiring. | 8 George I c.6 |
1721 | Butter trade, hides, salmon | For the further amendment of the laws in relation to butter and tallow casks, hides and other commodities of this kingdom, and for preventing the destruction of salmon. | 8 George I c.7 |
1721 | Planting and preserving timber trees | For repealing part of an act passed in the 10th year of King William III, entitled an act for planting and preserving timber trees and woods, and also for giving further encouragement to plant and preserve timber trees and woods. | 8 George I c.8 |
1721 | Transportation of felons, suppression of tories and rapparees, and enlistment in foreign service | For amending an act, entitled, for the better and more effectual apprehending and transporting felons and others, and for continuing and amending several laws for suppressing tories, robbers, and rapparees, and also to prevent the enlisting of his majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers in foreign service, without his majesty's licence. | 8 George I c.9 |
1721 | Parish watches, mending highways and public money | For continuing and amending an act, entitled, an act for better regulating the parish watches, amending the highways in this kingdom, and for preventing misapplication of public money. | 8 George I c.10 |
1721 | Glebes | For supplying a defect in an act passed in the 2nd year of her late majesty's reign, entitled, an act for the exchange of glebes belonging to the churches in this kingdom. | 8 George I c.11 |
1721 | Clerical residence | For better enabling the clergy having cure of souls to reside on their benefices, and for the encouragement of Protestant schools within this kingdom of Ireland. | 8 George I c.12 |
1721 | Reducing rate of interest to 7 per cent | For reducing the interest of money to 7 per cent. | 8 George I c.13 |
1721 | Bankers' notes ('the Bankers' Act') | For the better securing the payment of bankers' notes. | 8 George I c.14 |
1721 | Registry of deeds, conveyances, and wills | For explaining and amending two several acts in relation to the public registering of all deeds, conveyances, and wills. | 8 George I c.15 |
1721 | Lighting in Dublin, Cork and Limerick | For amending an act, entitled, an act for erecting and continuing lights in the city of Dublin, and the several liberties adjoining, and also in the cities of Cork and Limerick, and liberties thereof. | 8 George I c.16 |
1721 | Quit, crown and composition rents | For the ease of his majesty's subjects in their paying of quit rents, crown rents, and composition rents. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Preserving records of outlawries of high treason | For the more effectual preserving the records of outlawries of high treason in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Earl of Antrim | [For empowering the Right Honourable Randal Earl of Antrim to take fines and grant fee farms or leases for lives, of his estate in Co. Antrim, to Protestants, not lessening the present rent, in order to raise money for discharging encumbrances, and making provision for daughters and younger children]. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Patrick Ryan | For relief of Patrick Ryan esquire, by the sale of part of his estate for payment of his debts. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Joshua Dawson and parish of St Anne, Dublin | For confirming the exchange made between Joshua Dawson, esquire, and parishioners of St Anne's, Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Pious uses | For explaining and amending an act, entitled an act for maintenance and execution of pious uses. | Not Enacted |
1721 | To prevent the further growth of Popery | For explaining and amending the several acts to prevent the further growth of Popery. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Securing the Protestant interest | For the further security of the Protestant interest in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Audley Mervyn | For sale of part of the estate of Audley Mervyn, esquire, for the payment of the debts of his late father, Audley Mervyn, deceased. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Tithe of hemp, flax and hops | For ascertaining the tithes of hemp, flax and hops. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Bank of Ireland | For establishing a bank in Ireland. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Relief of James Leathley, Benjamin Taylor and James Duggan, and their creditors | For the relief of James Leathley, Benjamin Taylor, and James Duggan, and their creditors, in respect of several sums of money illegally taken and exacted from them in the treasury, during the time Sir William Robinson was Deputy Vice-Treasurer General of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1721 | James Eccles | For discovering the effects of James Eccles, merchant, thereby to oblige him to pay his debts owing to Sir John Eccles, knight. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Hawkers and pedlars | For licensing hawkers, peddlers, and petty chapmen. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Preservation of game | For the preservation of the game and the more easy conviction of such as shall destroy the same. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Malt trade | To prevent frauds and abuses committed in the making of malt. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Encouragement of tillage, and regulation of corn trade | For the encouragement of tillage, and the regulating the buying and selling of corn. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Samuel Hill, Sir Maurice Eustace | [To enable him [Samuel Hill] to amend his claim exhibited before the trustees appointed by act of parliament for the relief of the creditors of Sir Maurice Eustace, by inserting several judgements in his said claim, which by mistake are omitted]. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Flax and hemp | For amending several laws now in force for encouraging the hempen and flaxen manufacture in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Frauds by bankrupts | To prevent frauds frequently committed by bankrupts. | Not Enacted |
1721 | William Smith | [He [William Smith], Miller, is affected by an act passed in the last session of parliament for cleansing and repairing the water-course leading from the river Dodder to the city of Dublin, and praying relief therein]. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Button manufacture and sale | To prohibit the wearing of buttons and buttonholes made of cloth, serge or other stuffs, and for the making of buttons of thread, worsted, and hair. | Not Enacted |
1721 | William Moore | [For sale of part of his William Moore estate for payment of his debts]. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Countess dowager of Antrim and Lady Helena MacDonnell | For further securing the jointure of Rachel, Countess Dowager of Antrim, widow and relict of Randal, late Earl of Antrim, deceased, and for providing a portion for the Lady Helena MacDonnell. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Harbour of Dublin | For making the harbour of Dublin more safe and commodious. | Not Enacted |
1721 | Marriage of children against will of parents or guardians | For explaining an act for the more effectual preventing the taking away and marrying children against the wills of their parents or guardians. | Not Enacted |