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Session 1717

2nd session of parliament elected in 1715. Dates of Session: 27 Aug 1717–23 Dec 1717

Dates on which acts received royal assent: 20 Nov 1717 (5 acts); 16 Dec 1717 (1 act); 19 Dec 1717 (11 acts); 23 Dec 1717 (1 act)

Total of 18 acts (16 public and 2 private)

The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. iv, pp 431-491.

Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 4 George I

Dates of regnal year of 4 George I: 1 Aug 1717–31 Jul 1718

Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here

Public Acts

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[+] 4 George I c.1 [Bill No. 3040] For continuing to his majesty the additional duties on beer, ale, strong waters ...

[+] 4 George I c.2 [Bill No. 3044] For continuing to his majesty an additional duty on all wines and strong waters ...

[+] 4 George I c.3 [Bill No. 0715] For taking away the oath, commonly called the little oath, on members of corpora ...

[+] 4 George I c.4 [Bill No. 3731] For preserving all such ships and goods thereof which shall happen to be forced ...

[+] 4 George I c.5 [Bill No. 1491] To explain and amend an act entitled an act for the more effectually preventing ...

[+] 4 George I c.6 [Bill No. 3050] For exempting British linen imported from all duties, and granting to his majest ...

[+] 4 George I c.7 [Bill No. 0206] For vesting in his majesty, his heirs and successors the several lands, tenement ...

[+] 4 George I c.8 [Bill No. 1072] To oblige all officers to return a list of their fees by a day certain.

[+] 4 George I c.9 [Bill No. 3765] For reviving, continuing and amending several statutes made in this kingdom, her ...

[+] 4 George I c.10 [Bill No. 4153] For limiting certain times within which writs of error shall be brought for reve ...

[+] 4 George I c.11 [Bill No. 2214] For the better amendment of the pavement, and more effectually cleansing of the ...

[+] 4 George I c.12 [Bill No. 0346] For repealing part of a clause in an act made in the 2nd year of his majesty's r ...

[+] 4 George I c.13 [Bill No. 3906] For explaining and amending an act of parliament made in the 9th year of his lat ...

[+] 4 George I c.14 [Bill No. 0541] For settling the quarter parts upon the parochial clergy of the diocese of Tuam, ...

[+] 4 George I c.15 [Bill No. 1206] For better regulating of the town of Galway, and for strengthening the Protestan ...

[+] 4 George I c.16 [Bill No. 1478] For the better regulating the corporation of the city of Kilkenny and strengthen ...

Private Acts

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[+] 4 George I c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2811] For sale of a moiety of the lands of Duray, and of the other lands in the half b ...

[+] 4 George I c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2555] To enable Richard Edwards and John Edwards, esquires, to charge the sum of £1,5 ...