97 Matching Records |
Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
1777 | James, earl of Courtown; Elizabeth, countess dowager of Courtown | For vesting certain lands, tenements and hereditaments therein mentioned, part of the estate of the Right Honourable James, earl of Courtown, and of Elizabeth, countess dowager of Courtown, in trustees, to be sold for the purpose of raising a sum of £24,000 sterling, for paying the portions of the younger children of the said countess (the brothers and sisters of the said earl) and for other purposes. | 17 & 18 George III c.2 (private) |
1777 | Charitable Musical Society | For incorporating the Charitable Musical Society for lending out money interest-free to indigent and industrious tradesmen. | 17 & 18 George III c.12 |
1777 | George Villiers, called Viscount Villiers | For vesting part of the settled estates of the Right Honourable George Villiers, commonly called Lord Viscount Villiers, of the kingdom of Ireland, situate in the county of Waterford and in the Queen's County in the same kingdom, in trustees, to be sold for the payment of certain debts and encumbrances affecting the said settled estates of the said George, Lord Viscount Villiers. | 17 & 18 George III c.1 (private) |
1777 | William Trench, Nicholas Keating | For vesting certain lands, tenements and hereditaments therein mentioned, part of the estate of William Power Keating Trench of Garbally in the county of Galway, esquire, and formerly the estate of Nicholas Keating of the city of Dublin, esquire, deceased, in trustees, to be sold for the purposes of raising a sum of £20,000 to discharge the encumbrances affecting the settled estate of the said William Power Keating Trench, and for settling the certain parts of the said settled estate to the uses mentioned in the said Nicholas Keating, in lieu of and of equal value to the lands so to be sold, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 17 & 18 George III c.3 (private) |
1777 | Richard Bourke | To enable Richard Bourke of Castleconnell in the county of Limerick by sale or mortgage to raise a sum of money for younger children, and for other purposes. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Relief of Protestant Dissenters | For the relief of his majesty's subjects the Protestant Dissenters of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1777 | William Howard, Abraham Grier | For the relief of the creditors of William Howard and Abraham Grier. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Independent companies of foot | For establishing independent companies of foot in the different counties of this kingdom, for the better defence of the same. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Boundaries of parish of St Mary, Dublin | For ascertaining the boundaries of the parish of Saint Mary, on the north east side thereof, and preventing inconveniencies arising from the uncertain state of the same, and for ascertaining the boundaries between the county of the city of Dublin and the county of Dublin, in some places where the same are uncertain, and thereby preventing persons guilty of offences therein from escaping the punishment of the law. | 17 & 18 George III c.47 |
1777 | Apprentices taken by Papists | For repealing a clause in the the act of the 8th of Queen Anne, limiting the number of apprentices to be taken by Papists. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Frauds by bankrupts | For continuing an act to prevent frauds committed by bankrupts. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Explaining act of faculties | To explain the statute of the 28th year of Henry VIII entitled the act of faculties. | 17 & 18 George III c.25 |
1777 | Annulling marriages by Popish priests, between Protestant and Protestant or Protestant and Papist | To amend an act passed in the 19th year of his late majesty King George II entitled an act for annulling all marriages to be celebrated by any Popish priest, between Protestant and Protestant, or between Protestant and Papist, and to amend and make more effectual an act passed in this kingdom in the 6th year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne entitled an act for more effectually preventing the taking away and marrying children against the wills of their parents and guardians. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Inland navigation | For granting and continuing to his majesty the several duties, rates and impositions therein contained, for the use of the Corporation for promoting and carrying on an Inland Navigation in Ireland. | 17 & 18 George III c.16 |
1777 | Hawkers and pedlars, and English Protestant schools | For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools. | 17 & 18 George III c.6 |
1777 | Coal trade in Dublin | For continuing and amending an act made in this kingdom in the 1st year of his majesty's reign entitled an act to prevent the excessive price of coals in the city of Dublin and an act made in this kingdom in the 3rd year of his majesty's reign entitled an act to amend and continue the said act. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Police in Dublin | For improving the police of the city of Dublin. | 17 & 18 George III c.43 |
1777 | Continuing temporary statutes | For reviving and continuing certain temporary statutes. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Limiting duration of parliaments | For shortening the duration of parliaments. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making judges' commissions continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
1777 | In respect to wills | For the amendment of the law in respect to wills. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Public service and common safety | To enable his majesty in the present distracted state of affairs more effectually to provide for the public service and the common safety of his dominions. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Qualification of office holders under act to prevent further growth of Popery | For 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. | Not Enacted |
1777 | John Preston | To explain and amend an act made in this kingdom in the 14th year of his present majesty's reign entitled an act to enable John Preston, esquire, for the consideration therein mentioned, to charge his estates in the counties of Meath and Queen's County with a further sum for payment of debts. | 17 & 18 George III c.6 (private) |
1777 | Frauds by bankrupts | To amend an act entitled an act to prevent frauds committed by bankrupts, by excluding from the benefit of that law traders who shall not keep regular books of account, and also to continue the same, and for other purposes. | 17 & 18 George III c.48 |
1777 | Quarantine of ships and prevention of plague | To continue an act passed in the 11th year of his present majesty's reign entitled an act to oblige ships more effectually to perform their quarantine, and for the better preventing the plague being brought from foreign parts into Ireland, and to hinder the spreading of infection. | 17 & 18 George III c.30 |
1777 | Sir Henry Cavendish | To vest a competent part of the real and personal estates of the late Right Honourable Sir Henry Cavendish, baronet, deceased, in trustees for discharging a debt due to the crown, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Dublin lord mayor | To enable the chief justice or other justice of his majesty's court of king's bench, or the chief justice or other justice of his majesty's court of common pleas, in the absence of the lord chief baron of the court of exchequer, to have the lord mayor of the city of Dublin sworn into his office before such chief of other justice. | 17 & 18 George III c.44 |
1777 | Punishment by hard labour of offenders to be transported | To authorise for a limited time the punishment by hard labour of offenders who for certain crimes are or shall become liable to be transported to any of his majesty's colonies and plantations. | 17 & 18 George III c.9 |
1777 | Interest on book debts | For the better encouragement of trade by allowing interest upon book debts. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Chalkers | For continuing an act passed in the 14th year of his present majesty's reign entitled an act to prevent malicious cutting and wounding, and to punish offenders called chalkers. | 17 & 18 George III c.11 |
1777 | Coal trade in Dublin | For preventing the excessive price of coals, and for establishing public coal yards in the city of Dublin where coals are in future to be delivered at fixed contract prices, and for other purposes therein contained. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Quarterage | For confirming and ascertaining the aids and contributions payable by the freemen and non-freemen of the several corporations residing within the city of Dublin and the liberties thereunto adjoining, and the several other cities and towns herein mentioned. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Baking trade in Dublin | To continue and amend an act passed in the 13th and 14th years of his present majesty entitled an act for the better regulating the baking trade of the city of Dublin, and for other purposes. | 17 & 18 George III c.17 |
1777 | Corporation for the relief of the poor in Dublin | For increasing the fund for the uses and purposes of the corporation, or president and assistants, instituted for the relief of the poor, and for punishing vagabonds and sturdy beggars in the county of the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Revenue | For the improvement of his majesty's revenue, and the more effectual preventing frauds therein, and for continuing and amending several laws heretofore made and now in force relative to his majesty's revenue. | 17 & 18 George III c.8 |
1777 | Sir James Nugent | For vesting in trustees the settled estate of Sir James Nugent, baronet, for sale of a competent part thereof, for payment of debts and encumbrances. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Jane Bonnell | For vesting the residue of the real and personal estates of Mrs Jane Bonnell, deceased, in trustees for the purposes mentioned in her will. | Not Enacted |
1777 | County infirmaries and hospitals | To enable testamentary guardians of minors to make leases for the purpose of building county infirmaries or hospitals on the estates of such minors, subject to restrictions hereinafter mentioned. | 17 & 18 George III c.15 |
1777 | Salmon fishery | For the better preservation of the salmon fisheries of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Incorporation of surgeons of Dublin | For incorporating the surgeons of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Outlawries, special juries, and bankrupts | For the amendment of the law with respect to outlawries, returning special juries, and future effects of bankrupts in certain cases. | 17 & 18 George III c.45 |
1777 | Inland fisheries | For the better preservation of fish in lakes, rivers and inland waters. | 17 & 18 George III c.19 |
1777 | Qualification of office holders under act to prevent further growth of Popery | For 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. | 17 & 18 George III c.5 |
1777 | Edward Fitzgerald, Rachel Grady | To enable Edward Fitzgerald of Carrigoran in the county of Clare, esquire, to charge the lands, tenements and hereditaments comprised in certain deeds of lease and release, entered into upon his marriage with his late wife, Rachel Grady, deceased, daughter of Standish Grady, the elder, then of Elton, but now of Capper Cullen in the county of Limerick, esquire, with a jointure or provision for wife or wives, to be hereafter taken by the said Edward Fitzgerald. | 17 & 18 George III c.8 (private) |
1777 | Dublin city improvement | For the further improvement of the city of Dublin, in the manner therein mentioned. | 17 & 18 George III c.46 |
1777 | Oyer and terminer | For appointing a fit and convenient place for executing the commissions of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery for the county of Dublin and county of the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Continuing temporary statutes | For reviving and continuing several temporary statutes. | 17 & 18 George III c.36 |
1777 | Mending of public roads | To explain and amend an act passed in the 13th and 14th years of his majesty's reign entitled an act for amending the public roads. | 17 & 18 George III c.22 |
1777 | Planting timber trees | To explain and amend an act passed in the 6th year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act for encouraging the planting of timber trees. | 17 & 18 George III c.35 |
1777 | Dublin circular road | For making and keeping in repair a circular road round the city of Dublin. | 17 & 18 George III c.10 |
1777 | Improvement of barren land | For the improvement of the waste, uncultivated lands in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Linen and hemp | To explain and amend an act passed in the 3rd year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act for the better regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures. | 17 & 18 George III c.21 |
1777 | Additional duty | For granting unto his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine tobacco, hides and other goods and merchandises therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, and of all cambrics and lawns, except of the manufacture of Great Britain. | 17 & 18 George III c.1 |
1777 | Regulating parliament elections | To explain and amend an act passed in the 11th year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act to regulate the trials of controverted elections, or returns of members to serve in parliament. | 17 & 18 George III c.26 |
1777 | Duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper | For granting unto his majesty, his heirs and successors several duties upon stamped vellum, parchment and paper. | 17 & 18 George III c.3 |
1777 | Additional duty | For granting to his majesty an additional duty upon the several goods and merchandises therein mentioned. | 17 & 18 George III c.4 |
1777 | Paving, lighting and cleansing in Dublin | For paving, lighting and cleansing the streets of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Government loan | For granting unto his majesty the several duties, rates, impositions and taxes therein particularly expressed to be applied to the payment of the interest of the sums therein provided for, and towards the discharge of the said principal sums in such manner as therein is directed, and for such other purposes as are therein mentioned. | 17 & 18 George III c.2 |
1777 | Advancement of trade | For the advancement of the trade of this kingdom. | 17 & 18 George III c.42 |
1777 | Advancement of trade and duties | For granting unto his majesty, his heirs and successors certain duties therein mentioned, and for the further advancement of the trade of this kingdom. | 17 & 18 George III c.41 |
1777 | Paving in Dublin | For appointing certain persons therein named to be trustees for paving the streets of Dublin, and vesting them with the several powers and authorities therein mentioned. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Turnpike roads | To amend an act entitled an act for enforcing the execution of the laws relative to turnpike roads in this kingdom. | 17 & 18 George III c.23 |
1777 | Lord and Lady Kingsborough; Lord Kingston | To enable Lord and Lady Kingsborough to make leases of certain estates in the kingdom of Ireland, and to charge the same with any sum not exceeding £30,000 for the portion of younger children, and to appoint the said Lord and Lady Kingsborough joint trustees and governors with the trustees and governors named in the said will and testament of said Lord Kingston, deceased, for the conduct and management of the charity thereby appointed. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Road from Nenagh to Curranaboy Bridge, Co. Westmeath | For effectually repairing and keeping in repair the turnpike road beginning at the town of Nenagh, and passing through the towns of Birr and Firbane in the King's County, and ending at Curranaboy Bridge, in the county of Westmeath. | 17 & 18 George III c.39 |
1777 | Catholic relief (‘Luke Gardiner’s act’) | For the relief of his majesty's subjects of the Popish religion. | 17 & 18 George III c.49 |
1777 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Roads in Co. Dublin | To amend an act entitled an act for making and amending the public roads in the county of Dublin, and for regulating the assessing, applotting and levying of money in the county of the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | 17 & 18 George III c.14 |
1777 | Fisheries | To explain and amend the acts made for the encouragement of the fisheries of this kingdom, and for promoting the good ends proposed by the said laws. | 17 & 18 George III c.20 |
1777 | Road from Dublin to Navan, Co. Meath, and roads from Navan to Nobber and Kells, Co. Meath | For continuing and amending an act passed in the 15th and 16th years of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act for continuing an act passed in the 7th year of his late majesty King George II entitled an act for repairing the roads leading from the city of Dublin to the town of Navan in the county of Meath, and for repairing the roads leading from the said town of Navan to the town of Nobber in the said county, as also for repairing the road leading from the said town of Navan to the town of Kells in the said county. | 17 & 18 George III c.37 |
1777 | Road from Maryborough, Queen's Co., to Toomyvara, Co. Tipperary | For repairing the road leading from the town of Maryborough in the Queen's County, through the towns of Mountrath, Castletown and Borris-in-Ossory in the same county, and from thence through the town of Roscrea in the county of Tipperary, and through the town of Dunkerrin in the King's County, to the town of Toomyvara in the said county of Tipperary. | 17 & 18 George III c.40 |
1777 | Police in Cork | For amending the several laws for the regulation of the police of the city of Cork, and for other purposes. | 17 & 18 George III c.38 |
1777 | Patrick D'Arcy | To enable Patrick Darcy of Kiltullagh in the county of Galway, esquire, grand nephew and heir of Patrick Darcy late of Kiltullagh, aforesaid, esquire, deceased, to charge the lands and hereditaments in the counties of Galway and Mayo, which were the estate of the said Patrick Darcy, deceased, with a jointure or provision for his present wife, Mary Darcy, or any after taken wife, and also to enable the said Patrick Darcy, the grand nephew, and the several persons to whom remainders are limited of the estates hereinafter therein mentioned of the said Patrick Darcy, deceased, when they shall respectively become seized of the said estate to make leases thereof for three lives or thirty one years. | 17 & 18 George III c.4 (private) |
1777 | Cutting or destroying of linens, cottons, etc. | For preventing the cutting or destroying of plain, stained or printed linens, cottons, lawns or muslins, or any other manufactured goods. | 17 & 18 George III c.33 |
1777 | Wide streets in Dublin | To direct the application of the sum of £5,000 granted this session to the commissioners appointed by act of parliament for making wide and convenient passages through the city of Dublin. | 17 & 18 George III c.27 |
1777 | Encouragement of tillage, and carriage of corn to Dublin | For the encouragement of tillage, and rendering the carriage of corn to the city of Dublin less expensive. | 17 & 18 George III c.34 |
1777 | Qualification of justices of the peace | For the qualification of justices of the peace for counties at large. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Bread and other prices | For regulating the price and assize of bread, and preventing frauds and impositions in the sale of flour, meal, beer, ale, potatoes, butchers' meat, and other articles sold by weight or measure in the county of the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Excluding placemen from parliament | For better securing the freedom of parliament, by vacating the seats of such members of the house of commons as shall accept of any lucrative office or employment from the crown, or any pension on the establishments. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Bread and other prices | For regulating the price and assize of bread, and preventing frauds and impositions in the sale of flour, meal, potatoes, butchers' meat, and other articles in the county of Dublin. | 17 & 18 George III c.32 |
1777 | Whale fishery | For the further encouragement of the whale fisheries carried on from Ireland. | 17 & 18 George III c.18 |
1777 | Encouragement of tillage | For continuing an act entitled an act for amending an act passed in the 29th year of the reign of his late majesty King George II entitled an act for the further encouragement of tillage. | 17 & 18 George III c.31 |
1777 | Corn and flour supply for Dublin | For explaining a doubt arising on the laws for supplying the city of Dublin with corn and flour, and also for lessening the expense of supplying said city the articles aforesaid. | 17 & 18 George III c.29 |
1777 | Militia | For establishing a militia in this kingdom. | 17 & 18 George III c.13 |
1777 | Regulating parliament elections | To amend an act passed in the 19th year of the reign of his late majesty King George II entitled an act for the better regulating of members to serve in parliament. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Security of landed property against dormant claims | For the security of landed property against dormant claims. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Flax and hemp | To continue an act entitled an act to amend an act passed in the 3rd year of his present majesty entitled an act for continuing the encouragement given by former acts of parliament to the flaxen and hempen manufactures. | 17 & 18 George III c.7 |
1777 | Relief of creditors of Samuel Forster | For the relief of the creditors of Samuel Forster of the city of Dublin, esquire. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Frauds by bankrupts | To explain and amend an act entitled an act to prevent frauds committed by bankrupts. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Infirmaries and hospitals | To amend an act passed in the 5th year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act for erecting public infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1777 | Regulation of gaols | For preserving the health of prisoners in gaol, and preventing the gaol distemper. | 17 & 18 George III c.28 |
1777 | Driving cattle in Dublin | To prevent the mischiefs that arise from driving cattle within the city of Dublin and the liberties thereof. | 17 & 18 George III c.24 |
1777 | Lord and Lady Kingsborough; Lord Kingston | To enable the Honourable Robert King, commonly called Lord Kingsborough, and the Caroline King, his wife, and the survivor of them to make leases of the estates of the Right Honourable James, late lord baron of Kingston, and to charge the same with any sum not exceeding £23,000 for the portions of their younger children. | 17 & 18 George III c.5 (private) |
1777 | Thomas, earl of Carrick | For vesting in trustees part of the estates of the Right Honourable Thomas, earl of Carrick, in order to be sold for payment of debts and encumbrances affecting the same, and for settling certain lands, part of said earl's estates in the county of in the place and stead of certain manors, towns and lands, part of his estate in the county of Down comprised in the said earl's marriage settlement, and for directing the application of the money to arise from the sale of the estate of Sarah, countess of Carrick, situate in the county of Louth. | 17 & 18 George III c.7 (private) |
1777 | Rendering conformity from Popish to Protestant religion easier | To render the manner of conforming from the Popish to the Protestant religion more easy and expeditious. | Not Enacted |