81 Matching Records |
Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
1791 | American trade | For further continuing an act, entitled, an act for facilitating the trade and intercourse between this kingdom and the United States of America. | 31 George III c.4 |
1791 | Apothecaries | For the more effectually preserving the health of his majesty's subjects, for erecting an apothecaries' hall in the city of Dublin, and regulating the profession of an apothecary throughout the kingdom of Ireland. | 31 George III c.34 |
1791 | Armagh observatory | For settling and preserving a public observatory and museum in the city of Armagh forever. | 31 George III c.46 |
1791 | Vexatious arrests | To prevent vexatious arrests, and proceedings in actions of slander. | 31 George III c.32 |
1791 | Seduction of artificers and manufacturers | To amend an act, entitled, an act to prevent the practice of seducing artificers and manufacturers of this kingdom, and of exporting the several tools and utensils made use of in preparing and working up the manufactures thereof into parts beyond the seas. | 31 George III c.23 |
1791 | Bank of Ireland | To extend the provision of an act passed in the 21st and 22nd years of his majesty's reign, entitled, an act for establishing a bank by the name of the Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland. | 31 George III c.22 |
1791 | Donegal and Meath barony division | For the division of certain baronies of great extent in the counties of Meath and Donegal. | 31 George III c.48 |
1791 | Barristers | To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act to regulate the admission of barristers-at-law. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Assistant barristers | To amend the laws respecting assistant barristers of the sessions of the peace. | 31 George III c.29 |
1791 | Bounties for manufactures | For regulating the payment of bounties on the exportation of certain manufactures of this kingdom. | 31 George III c.9 |
1791 | Butter trade, hides, beef, pork, salmon | For continuing an act passed in the 10th year of King George I, entitled, an act for continuing and amending of the laws in relation to butter and tallow, and the casks in which such goods are to be made up, and in relation to the curing of hides, and making up of beef and pork for exportation, and for preventing the destruction of salmon. | 31 George III c.24 |
1791 | Pious and charitable purposes | For granting the several sums therein mentioned for certain pious and charitable purposes. | 31 George III c.7 |
1791 | Pious uses | To explain and amend and act passed in the 10th year of the reign of King Charles I, entitled, an act for the maintenance and execution of pious uses. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Care of deserted children | For regulating the care of deserted children throughout the kingdom of Ireland, for the regulation of county infirmaries, and for providing hospitals or other places for the reception of persons for whom no effectual provision has hitherto been made. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Foundling hospital in Dublin | For the better regulation of the foundling hospital of the city of Dublin, and for repealing the several laws now in being which relate thereunto. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Summary hearings for small debts | For the amendment of an act of the 2nd of George I, entitled, an act for reviving and amending an act for recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Frauds and civil bills | For the preventing of frauds in the execution of decrees obtained on civil bills. | 31 George III c.31 |
1791 | Clerical residence | To amend an act passed in the 11th and 12th years of his present majesty, entitled, an act for rendering more effectual the several laws for the better enabling the clergy having cure of souls to reside on their benefices, and to build on their respective glebe lands and to prevent dilapidations, and for the encouragement of Protestant schools within this kingdom of Ireland, and also to amend an act passed in the 13th and 14th years of his present majesty, entitled, an act to amend an act passed in the 8th year of his present majesty, entitled, an act for erecting new chapels of ease in the parish of Armagh, and making such chapels, and those that are already erected in said parish, perpetual cures, and for making a proper provision for the maintenance of perpetual curates to officiate in the same, and for other purposes. | 31 George III c.19 |
1791 | Grand juries and clerks of crown and peace in Dublin | To enable the grand juries of the county of Dublin, and the county of the cities of Dublin, to make better provision for the clerks of the crown and peace by presentment at each quarter sessions for said county and city. | 31 George III c.11 |
1791 | Coal trade in Dublin | To prevent the excessive price of coals in the city of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.33 |
1791 | Waste on commons | To amend an act, entitled, an act for preventing the commission of waste on the several commons of this kingdom. | 31 George III c.38 |
1791 | Corn trade | To promote a reciprocal preference between this kingdom and Great Britain in the corn trade. | 31 George III c.26 |
1791 | Ecclesiastical courts | For remedying abuses which prevail in certain ecclesiastical courts having peculiar jurisdiction. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors, so far as relates to the imprisonment of their persons. | 31 George III c.21 |
1791 | Dublin Society grant | For granting the sum of £5,000 to the Dublin Society for the purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.6 |
1791 | Commission of enquiry into schools and and charities | To continue, explain and amend and to render more effectual an act to continue an act, entitled, an act to enable the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom, to appoint commissioners for enquiring into the several funds or revenues granted by public or private donations for the purposes of education in this kingdom, and into the state and condition of all schools in this kingdom on public or charitable foundations, and of the funds appropriated for the maintenance and support thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Commission of enquiry into schools and and charities | To continue an act, entitled, an act to continue an act to enable the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom to appoint commissioners for enquiring into the several funds and revenues granted by public or private donations for the purposes of education in this kingdom, and into the state and condition of all schools in this kingdom on public or charitable foundations, and of the funds appropriated for the maintenance and support thereof, and for the other purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.41 |
1791 | Excluding revenue officers from parliament | For the better securing the freedom of election of members to serve in parliament by disabling certain officers employed in the collection or management of his majesty's revenue from giving their votes at such elections. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Preventing persons under 21 years being elected to parliament | To prevent persons under the age of 21 years from being elected or returned to serve in parliament. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Regulating parliament elections | To regulate the election of members to serve in parliament. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Regulating parliament elections | To amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the trial of controverted elections, or return of members to serve in parliament. | 31 George III c.36 |
1791 | Horse races near Dublin | To prohibit horse races in the neighbourhood of the city of Dublin. | 31 George III c.43 |
1791 | Improvement of barren land | For the improvement of barren land. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Government loan | For securing the payment of annuities, and of the interest of the principal sums therein provided for, and towards the discharge of such principal sums in such manner as therein is directed, and for enabling the officers of his majesty's treasury to receive certain sums for a limited time in manner therein mentioned, and for other purposes. | 31 George III c.2 |
1791 | Lottery insurance | To regulate the insurance of lottery tickets. | 31 George III c.20 |
1791 | Cordage manufacture | To encourage the manufacture of cordage in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Frauds in tanning leather | To amend an act passed in the 3rd year of his present majesty, entitled, an act to prevent frauds in the tanning of hides, in the currying of leather, and the making of shoes and boots. | 31 George III c.27 |
1791 | Linen grant | For granting the sum of £4,000 to the trustees of the linen manufacture, and for other purposes. | 31 George III c.8 |
1791 | Linen and hemp | For amending the laws respecting the linen and hempen manufactures. | 31 George III c.14 |
1791 | Malt trade | For the buying and selling of malt by measure, and for the more effectual preventing the frauds committed in the buying, selling and delivery thereof. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Enclosure of Merrion Square | For enclosing and improving Merrion Square in the city of Dublin. | 31 George III c.45 |
1791 | Mines | For the better enabling certain persons to open and work mines, and to raise coal, culm, minerals and fossils in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Mines | For the better enabling certain persons to open and work mines, and to raise coal, culm, minerals and fossils in this kingdom. | 31 George III c.39 |
1791 | Securities by mortgage | To amend an act, entitled, an act for rendering securities by mortgage more effectual. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Murder and appeal in case of murder | To prevent the horrid crime of murder, and to repeal an act passed in the 10th year of King Henry VII, entitled, an act to make murder of malice prepensed treason, and for repealing an act made in the 9th year of Queen Anne, entitled, an act for bringing an appeal in case of murder, notwithstanding the statute of King Henry VII, whereby murder is made high treason. | 31 George III c.17 |
1791 | Mutiny | For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters within this kingdom. | 31 George III c.28 |
1791 | Grand jury presentments for inland navigations, and salary of county treasurer of Co. Kildare | To enable the several grand juries within the province of Munster, at their general assizes, to present competent sums for the repair and making of track ways to navigable rivers and other inland navigations within their respective counties, and also to enable the grand jury of the county of Kildare to increase the salary of the county treasurer. | 31 George III c.47 |
1791 | Inland navigation | For directing the further application of the sum of £200,000 granted by an act passed in the 29th year of his present majesty, entitled, an act for the promotion and encouragement of inland navigation. | 31 George III c.42 |
1791 | Trials by nisi prius in Dublin | For explaining and amending an act, entitled, an act for enlarging the time for trials by nisi prius in the city of Dublin and county of Dublin. | 31 George III c.30 |
1791 | Excluding placemen from parliament | To disable any person who shall have, in his own name, or in the name of any person or persons in trust for him, or for his benefit, any office or place of profit whatsoever under the crown, created after a certain time, from being chosen a member of or from sitting and voting in the present or any future house of commons which shall be hereafter summoned. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Excluding pensioners from parliament | To disable any person from being chosen a member of, or from sitting or voting in the house of commons, who has any pension during pleasure or for any number of years under the crown, and to limit the amount of pensions. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Perjury and subornation of perjury, and jurisdiction of quarter sessions | To render prosecutions for perjury and subornation of perjury more easy and effectual, and for affirming the jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in cases of perjury. | 31 George III c.18 |
1791 | School of physic | To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for establishing a complete school of physic in this kingdom. | 31 George III c.35 |
1791 | Preserving shrubs and trees | For the preservation of shrubs and trees. | 31 George III c.40 |
1791 | Edward Dunn | For divesting out of the crown and vesting in Edward Dunn of Brittas in the Queen's County, esquire, and his heirs the reversion in fee of and in several lands, tenements and hereditaments therein mentioned. | Not Enacted |
1791 | James Whitshed, James Hawkins | For making an exemplification of the last will and testament of James Whitshed, late of Burlington Street in the city of Westminster in the kingdom of Great Britain, esquire, evidence of such will within the kingdom of Ireland, and to enable James Hawkins, now a captain in his majesty's royal navy, to assume the name and bear the arms of Whitshed in addition to his own name. | 31 George III c.3 (private) |
1791 | Thomas, earl of Louth | For vesting certain lands and premises, part of the estate of the Right Honourable Thomas, earl of Louth, in trustees, to be sold for the purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.1 (private) |
1791 | Luke, Baron Mountjoy; Luke Gardiner | To enable the Right Honourable Luke, Lord Baron Mountjoy to make reversionary leases of several parts of the estates in the county and county of the city of Dublin, devised to him by the Right Honourable Luke Gardiner, deceased. | 31 George III c.2 (private) |
1791 | Robert Phaire | To enable the trustees named in the marriage settlement of Robert Phaire of Daphne in the county of Wexford, esquire, effectually to carry into execution the trust in them reposed, and to raise a sufficient sum of money for the purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.4 (private) |
1791 | Qualification | For the relief of persons who have omitted to qualify themselves according to law. | 31 George III c.37 |
1791 | Forfeited recognizances, and green wax process | To discharge such recognizances entered into for appearance and prosecution of offenders, as were forfeited before the 18th of January in the year 1787, and for more effectually executing the green wax process. | 31 George III c.25 |
1791 | Responsibility of servants of the crown | For effectually securing responsibility in the servants of the crown in different departments of the executive government of Ireland, to the parliament thereof. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Revenue | For continuing and amending several laws relating to his majesty's revenue, and for the more effectually preventing of frauds therein. | 31 George III c.16 |
1791 | Duties, and treaty of commerce and navigation with France | For granting for one year the several duties therein mentioned, in lieu of all other duties payable upon the articles specified during the said term, and for continuing the effect of a treaty of commerce and navigation between his majesty and the most Christian king, and for regulating the trade between this kingdom and his majesty's colonies, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.1 |
1791 | Tax on salaries, and duties | For granting unto his majesty, his heirs and successors a tax on all salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, and certain duties upon carriages, and for licensing hawkers, pedlars and other persons therein mentioned. | 31 George III c.3 |
1791 | Licences for sale of spirits | For regulating the issuing of licences for the sale of spirituous liquors by retail, and for remedying the abuses which have arisen from the immoderate use of such liquors. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Licences for sale of spirits | For regulating the issuing of licences for the sale of spirituous liquors by retail, and for remedying the abuses which have arisen from the immoderate use of such liquors. | 31 George III c.13 |
1791 | Duties on malt | For granting unto his majesty, his heirs and successors an additional duty on imported malt. | 31 George III c.15 |
1791 | Duties on letters and packets | For granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors certain rates and duties upon the portage and conveyance of all letters and packets within this kingdom. | 31 George III c.10 |
1791 | Stamp duties | For granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors several duties therein mentioned to be levied by the commissioners for managing the stamp duties. | 31 George III c.12 |
1791 | Tobacco, sugar and coffee | For regulating and extending the tobacco, sugar and coffee trade. | 31 George III c.5 |
1791 | Road from Kilkenny to Clonmel, and thence to Knockboy, and division of barony of Boylagh and Bannagh, Co. Donegal | For the amendment of the turnpike road leading from the city of Kilkenny to the town of Clonmel, and thence to Knockboy, and to provide for the better repair of the said road, and for the purpose of dividing the barony of Boylagh and Bannagh in the county of Donegal. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Road from Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath, to Athlone | To amend an act for improving the turnpike road leading from Kinnegad to Athlone. | 31 George III c.49 |
1791 | Road from Dublin to Malahide | For amending the several laws for making, widening and repairing the road from Dublin to Malahide, and the other roads leading to Dublin over Ballybough bridge in the said acts mentioned, and for enabling the trustees for the said purposes to borrow further sums of money for such purposes, and for continuing the said acts for a further term, and for improving the neighbourhood of Ballybough bridge. | 31 George III c.50 |
1791 | Road from Dublin to Mullingar | To amend the several acts for repair of the road from Dublin to Mullingar. | 31 George III c.51 |
1791 | St Stephen's Green, Dublin | To improve and beautify the square of St Stephen's Green in the city of Dublin. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Regulating livery servants in Dublin | For regulating, registering and keeping effectual order among servants wearing livery within the city of Dublin and vicinage thereof, and for other purposes respecting the same. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Stage coaches | For limiting the number of persons to be carried on the outside of stage coaches or other such carriages, and for regulating the conduct of drivers and guards thereof. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Continuing temporary statutes | For reviving and continuing several temporary statutes. | 31 George III c.44 |
1791 | Preventing waste in felling of trees and burning of land | For the further preventing of waste in felling of trees and burning of land. | Not Enacted |
1791 | Cultivation of trees and shrubs | To amend an act passed in the 15th and 16th years of his present majesty, entitled, an act for encouraging the cultivation and the better preservation of trees, shrubs, plants and roots. | Not Enacted |