36 Matching Records |
Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
1737 | Flax and hemp | For the further encouragement of the hempen and flaxen manufactures. | 11 George II c.4 |
1737 | Privilege of parliament | To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for preventing inconveniences that may happen by privilege of parliament. | 11 George II c.5 |
1737 | English languge to be used in courts of justice | That all proceedings in courts of justice within this kingdom shall be in the English language. | 11 George II c.6 |
1737 | Enlistment in foreign service | For the more effectual preventing the enlisting of his majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers in foreign service without his majesty's licence. | 11 George II c.7 |
1737 | Maiming and wounding, and carrying secret arms | To prevent malicious maiming and wounding, and to prevent carrying secret arms. | 11 George II c.8 |
1737 | Preserving ships forced on shore | For enforcing and making perpetual an act, entitled, an act for the preserving all such ships and goods thereof which shall happen to be forced on shore or stranded upon the coasts of this kingdom, and also for inflicting the punishment of death on such as shall wilfully burn, sink or destroy ships. | 11 George II c.9 |
1737 | Qualification of office holders under act to prevent further growth of Popery, and Protestant Dissenter marriages | For allowing further time to persons in offices to qualify themselves, pursuant to an act, entitled, an act to prevent the further growth of Popery, and for giving further ease to Protestant Dissenters, with respect to matrimonial contracts. | 11 George II c.10 |
1737 | Corn, bread and markets | For the buying and selling of all sorts of corn and meal, and other things therein mentioned, by weight, and for the 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. | 11 George II c.11 |
1737 | Preservation of game | For the better preservation of the game. | 11 George II c.12 |
1737 | Continuing temporary statutes | For reviving, continuing, explaining and amending several temporary statutes, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 11 George II c.13 |
1737 | Fisheries | For the further improvement and encouragement of the fishery of this kingdom. | 11 George II c.14 |
1737 | Preserving inheritance of church | To repeal part of an act, passed in the 10th and 11th years of King Charles I, entitled, an act for the preservation of the inheritance, rights, and profits of lands belonging to the Church and persons ecclesiastical, and also for the more easy recovery of arrears of rent due to archbishops and bishops upon their translation. | 11 George II c.15 |
1737 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent debtors. | 11 George II c.16 |
1737 | Roads from Mullingar to Roscommon town, and from Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath, to Athlone | To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for repairing the road leading from the town of Mullingar, in the county of Westmeath, through the towns of Rathcondra and Mevore, in the said county, and through the town of Ballymahon, in the county of Longford, to Lanesborough, in the said county, and for repairing the road leading from the said town of Lanesborough to the town of Roscommon, in the county of Roscommon, and also for amending one other act of the 7th year of his present majesty, entitled, an act for repairing the road leading from the town of Kinnegad, in the county of Westmeath, to the town of Athlone, in the said county. | 11 George II c.17 |
1737 | Road from Toomyvara, Co. Tipperary, to Limerick | For repairing the high road from the town of Tomivarah, in the county of Tipperary, to the town of silver-mines, as also to the town of Nenagh, and from the said towns of Nenagh and silver-mines, by shally-orchard, through the town of Tullo, in the said county, to the city of Limerick. | 11 George II c.18 |
1737 | Lighting in Dublin | For the further explaining and amending the several acts of parliament now in force for erecting lamps in the city of Dublin and liberties thereof. | 11 George II c.19 |
1737 | Charles Coote | To enable Charles Coote, of Cootehill, in the county of Cavan, esquire, to charge his estate settled on his intermarriage, with a further sum of £8000 for the portions and provisions of three or more younger children, whether sons or daughters, or both, so as the same, with the sum of £4000 charged thereon by the said settlement, do not amount to more than £2000 apiece for such younger children, if equally divided, upon the consideration therein mentioned. | 11 George II c.1 (private) |
1737 | Hugh Rainey's charitable bequest | For rendering the charity devised by the will of Hugh Rainey, late of Magherafelt, in the county of Londonderry, gentleman, more effectual, and to enable the devisees under the said will to make fee-farm leases and leases for lives renewable forever. | 11 George II c.2 (private) |
1737 | Daniel Reddy, Dudley Reddy | For the relief of the creditors of Daniel Reddy, esquire, and of Dudley Reddy, his brother, deceased, by the sale of their real and personal estates, for payment of their debts. | 11 George II c.3 (private) |
1737 | Additional duty | For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, and other goods and merchandizes therein mentioned. | 11 George II c.1 |
1737 | Additional duty, and tax on salaries to repay government loan | For granting to his majesty a further additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees, and pensions, to be applied to pay an interest of £5 per cent per annum for the sum of £300,000 or such part thereof as shall remain unpaid on the 25th day of December 1737, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum. | 11 George II c.2 |
1737 | Sheriffs' courts and other inferior courts | For the better regulating of sheriffs' courts, and other inferior courts. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Registry of deeds, conveyances, and wills | For amending and explaining an act, entitled, an act for the public registering of all deeds, conveyances and wills, that shall be made of any honours, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Encouragement of tillage | For the further encouragement of tillage. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Tithe of hemp and flax | For the better ascertaining the tithe of hemp and flax. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Enabling courts to use affidavits taken in England, and regulating office of six clerks | To enable the several courts of law and equity in this kingdom to make use of affidavits, taken before any judge of any of the courts of Westminster, or before the any of the masters of the high court of chancery in that part of Great Britain, called England, and for regulating the office of the six clerks of the high court of chancery of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Grand juries | For the better regulating grand juries. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Parish workhouses | For enabling such parishes as shall think proper to erect public workhouses for employing vagrants. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Ecclesiastical courts | For the better regulating the proceedings of ecclesiastical courts. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Mortmain | To restrain the dispositions of lands, whereby the same may become unalienable. | Not Enacted |
1737 | James Barry, called Lord Buttevant; Anne, countess of Barrymore; James, earl of Barrymore | For enabling James Barry, commonly called Lord Buttevant, to join with his mother, Anne, countess of Barrymore, and his father James, earl of Barrymore, in a settlement to be made upon his marriage notwithstanding his minority. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Bishops' leases | For repealing so much of the said statute as relates to the issuing commissions under the great seal for inquiring into and finding the value of bishops' leases. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Preserving inheritance of church | To explain and amend an act, passed in the 10th and 11th years of King Charles I, entitled, an act for the preservation of the inheritance, rights, and profits of lands belonging to the Church and persons ecclesiastical. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Francis Heaton | For establishing and confirming a partition of certain lands, late of the estate of Francis Heaton of Ballyskenagh alias Mount Heaton, in the King's county, esquire, deceased, and to subject the said partition to an equal proportion of the encumbrances affecting the said lands. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Continuing temporary statutes | For continuing several temporary statutes, now near expiring. | Not Enacted |
1737 | Revenue, and running of goods | For continuing and amending several laws heretofore made relating to his majesty's revenue, and the more effectual preventing the running of goods. | 11 George II c.3 |