35 Matching Records |
Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
1717 | 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 |
1717 | Frauds by tenants | To explain and amend an act entitled an act for the more effectually preventing frauds committed by tenants. | 4 George I c.5 |
1717 | Encouragement of tillage, and regulation of corn trade | For the encouragement of tillage, and the regulating of the buying and selling of corn. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Writs of mandamus and quo warrantos | For rendering the proceedings upon writs of mandamus, and informations in the nature of a quo warranto, more speedy and effectual, and for more easy trying and determining the rights of offices and franchises in corporations and boroughs. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Sheriffs' accounts | For the more easy passing sheriffs accounts. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Preserving ships forced on shore | For preserving all such ships and goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on shore or stranded upon the coasts of this kingdom. | 4 George I c.4 |
1717 | Marriage of children against will of parents or guardians | For the more effectual preventing marriages of infants against the will of their parents and guardians. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Reviving expired statutes | For reviving, continuing and amending several statutes made in this kingdom, heretofore temporary. | 4 George I c.9 |
1717 | Preservation of game | For explaining and amending an act entitled an act for the preservation of the game, and the more easy conviction of such as shall destroy the same. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Paving, cleansing and nuisances in Dublin | For the better amendment of the pavement, and more effectually cleansing of the streets of the city of Dublin, and removing encroachments and nuisances that are or shall be erected therein, and for preventing mischiefs occasioned by drivers of carts, drays and cars riding thereon, and for regulating the selling of hay in the city of Dublin, and liberties thereunto adjoining. | 4 George I c.11 |
1717 | Barracks | For vesting in his majesty, his heirs and successors the several lands, tenements and hereditaments whereon the barracks in this kingdom are built, for making reasonable satisfaction to the owners and proprietors for the same, and likewise for amending an act passed in the 6th year of her late majesty's reign, entitled an act to prevent the disorders that may happen by the marching of soldiers, and for providing carriages for the baggage of soldiers in their march. | 4 George I c.7 |
1717 | Writs of error | For limiting certain times within which writs of error shall be brought for reversing of fines and common recoveries. | 4 George I c.10 |
1717 | Regulation of poor, and punishment of idle persons | For better regulating the poor in this kingdom, and for punishing idle persons, vagrants and vagabonds. | Not Enacted |
1717 | William Smith | For sale of a moiety of the lands of Duray, and of the other lands in the half barony of Ross, and county of Galway, part of the estate of William Smith, esquire, for the payment of £800 chargeable thereon, and for purchasing other lands to be settled to the same uses. | 4 George I c.1 (private) |
1717 | Town of Galway, and strengthening the Protestant interest there | For better regulating of the town of Galway, and for strengthening the Protestant interest therein. | 4 George I c.15 |
1717 | Repair of highways | For explaining and amending several laws made for repairing the highways in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Preventing destruction of timber trees | To prevent the destruction of timber trees and woods, and for amendment of the laws already made for that purpose. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Butter trade | For repealing part of a clause in an act made in the 2nd year of his majesty's reign by which the dimensions of butter casks are ascertained, and for explaining and further amending the law in relation to butter casks. | 4 George I c.12 |
1717 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Additional duty | For continuing to his majesty the additional duties on beer, ale, strong waters, tobacco and other goods and merchandises. | 4 George I c.1 |
1717 | Additional duty | For continuing to his majesty an additional duty on all wines and strong waters and spirits perfectly made, and upon all spirits made and distilled of wine, and also a tax on salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, and for granting a further additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters and spirits perfectly made, and upon all spirits made and distilled of wine, and for securing the repayment of £50,000 formerly advanced unto his majesty for the use of the public, together with the interest thereof. | 4 George I c.2 |
1717 | Linen | For exempting British linen imported from all duties, and granting to his majesty an additional duty on cordage, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses in the hempen and flaxen manufactures of this kingdom, and for the further encouragement thereof. | 4 George I c.6 |
1717 | Flax and hemp | For the more effectual preventing of frauds and abuses in the hempen and flaxen manufactures of this kingdom, and for the further encouragement thereof. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Pewter and brass | To explain and amend an act entitled an act for redress of certain abuses in the making of pewter and brass. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Tanning leather | For the just and full tanning and working of all sorts of leather, and for the just and true searching and sealing thereof by his majesty's say master within this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Button manufacture and sale | To prevent the making or selling of buttons made of cloth, serge, drugget or other stuffs. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Kilkenny corporation | For the better regulating the corporation of the city of Kilkenny and strengthening the Protestant therein, and punishing Alderman Robert Connell for withdrawing himself with the books and papers belonging to said corporation. | 4 George I c.16 |
1717 | Repealing the little oath | For taking away the oath, commonly called the little oath, on members of corporations, by the new rules. | 4 George I c.3 |
1717 | Tuam archdiocese | For settling the quarter parts upon the parochial clergy of the diocese of Tuam, and for empowering the lord archbishop of Tuam to set leases of part of his demesne lands, as also for confirming a charitable foundation in the city of Cork. | 4 George I c.14 |
1717 | Richard Edwards, John Edwards | To enable Richard Edwards and John Edwards, esquires, to charge the sum of £1,500 on part of the estate of the said Richard Edwards, and for raising portions for the younger children of the said John Edwards and for other uses mentioned in the said act, and for settling a jointure on Jane, the wife of the said John Edwards. | 4 George I c.2 (private) |
1717 | Vexatious suits | For explaining and amending an act of parliament made in the 9th year of his late majesty King William entitled an act for preventing frivolous and vexatious law suits, and giving remedy to the parties grieved to recover their costs at law in certain cases where heretofore no costs were given. | 4 George I c.13 |
1717 | Outlawries, and quieting possessions | To prevent the reversal of outlawries, and for the better quieting possessions under the acts of settlement and explanation, and under the sales of the late trustees. | Not Enacted |
1717 | Tithes | For the more easy recovery of small tithes and other ecclesiastical dues, and for preventing of excommunications. | Not Enacted |
1717 | List of fees to be returned by officers | To oblige all officers to return a list of their fees by a day certain. | 4 George I c.8 |
1717 | Nicholas and Thomasine Bourke | For confirming the sales already made of part of [the estate of Nicholas Bourke and Thomasine his wife], and for sale of the residue thereof, for payment of debts, and making provision for [Nicholas Bourke and Thomasine his wife]. | Not Enacted |