3rd session of parliament elected in 1727. Dates of Session: 5 Oct 1731–10 Mar 1732
Dates on which acts received royal assent: 18 Dec 1731 (2 acts); 10 Mar 1732 (23 acts)
Total of 25 acts (23 public and 2 private)
The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. v, pp 483-643.
Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 5 George II
Dates of regnal year of 5 George II: 11 Jun 1731–10 Jun 1732
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Public Acts
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[+]5 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3056] For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, stro ...
5 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3056] Royal Assent: 18 Dec 1731.
For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, and other goods and merchandises therein mentioned.
[+]5 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1585] For granting to his majesty a further additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china ...
5 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1585] Royal Assent: 18 Dec 1731.
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 and towards the discharge of the said principal sum.
[+]5 George II c.3 [Bill No. 3066] For the better securing and collecting his majesty's revenue.
5 George II c.3 [Bill No. 3066] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For the better securing and collecting his majesty's revenue.
[+]5 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1535] For explaining and amending the several laws for preventing frauds committed by ...
5 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1535] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For explaining and amending the several laws for preventing frauds committed by tenants, and for the more easy renewal of leases, and for the amendment of the law in certain cases therein mentioned.
[+]5 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2894] For allowing further time to persons in offices to qualify themselves, pursuant ...
5 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2894] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
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.
[+]5 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3770] For continuing several temporary statutes made in this kingdom, and now near exp ...
5 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3770] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For continuing several temporary statutes made in this kingdom, and now near expiring, and for the amendment of the statutes therein mentioned.
[+]5 George II c.7 [Bill No. 1401] For reducing the interest of money to 6 per cent.
5 George II c.7 [Bill No. 1401] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For reducing the interest of money to 6 per cent.
[+]5 George II c.8 [Bill No. 1372] To enable idiots and lunatics, who are seized or possessed of estates in fee, or ...
5 George II c.8 [Bill No. 1372] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To enable idiots and lunatics, who are seized or possessed of estates in fee, or for lives or terms of years in trust, or by way of mortgage, to make conveyances, surrenders, or assignments of such estates, and to prevent delay in suits in equity, where trustees cannot be found.
[+]5 George II c.9 [Bill No. 1504] To encourage the improvement of barren and waste land and bogs, and planting of ...
5 George II c.9 [Bill No. 1504] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To encourage the improvement of barren and waste land and bogs, and planting of timber trees and orchards.
[+]5 George II c.10 [Bill No. 3661] For the more effectual punishing stealers of lead, or iron bars fixed to houses, ...
5 George II c.10 [Bill No. 3661] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For the more effectual punishing stealers of lead, or iron bars fixed to houses, or any fences belonging thereunto.
[+]5 George II c.11 [Bill No. 1986] For explaining and amending an act made in the 28th year of Henry VIII, entitle ...
5 George II c.11 [Bill No. 1986] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For explaining and amending an act made in the 28th year of Henry VIII, entitled, an act for the weirs upon the Barrow, and other waters in the County of Kilkenny.
[+]5 George II c.12 [Bill No. 1107] To prevent the throwing or firing of squibs, serpents, and other fireworks.
5 George II c.12 [Bill No. 1107] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To prevent the throwing or firing of squibs, serpents, and other fireworks.
[+]5 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3684] For the better regulation and government of seamen in the merchants' service.
5 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3684] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For the better regulation and government of seamen in the merchants' service.
[+]5 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0409] To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for the better regulating the work ...
5 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0409] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To explain and amend an act, entitled, an act for the better regulating the workhouse in the city of Dublin, and to regulate and provide for the poor thereof, and to prevent mischief which may happen by keeping gunpowder within the said city, and also for explaining and amending one other act, entitled, an act for the better enabling the governors of the work-house of the city of Dublin to provide for and employ the poor therein, and for the more effectual punishing the vagabonds, and also for the better securing of and providing for lunatics and foundling children.
[+]5 George II c.15 [Bill No. 3500] For repairing the road leading from the city of Dublin to the town of Dunleer, i ...
5 George II c.15 [Bill No. 3500] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the city of Dublin to the town of Dunleer, in the county of Louth.
[+]5 George II c.16 [Bill No. 3559] For repairing the road leading from the city of Dublin to the town of Kinnegad, ...
5 George II c.16 [Bill No. 3559] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the city of Dublin to the town of Kinnegad, in the county of Westmeath.
[+]5 George II c.17 [Bill No. 3451] For repairing the road leading from the Black Bull, in the county of Meath, to t ...
5 George II c.17 [Bill No. 3451] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the Black Bull, in the county of Meath, to the town of Athboy, in the said county.
[+]5 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3536] For repairing the road leading from the town of Kilcullen, in the county of Kild ...
5 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3536] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the town of Kilcullen, in the county of Kildare, to the city of Kilkenny.
[+]5 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3548] For repairing the road leading from the city of Kilkenny to the town of Clonmel, ...
5 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3548] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the city of Kilkenny to the town of Clonmel, in the county of Tipperary.
[+]5 George II c.20 [Bill No. 3489] For repairing the road leading from the city of Cork to the brook, which bounds ...
5 George II c.20 [Bill No. 3489] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the city of Cork to the brook, which bounds the counties of Cork and Tipperary, near the foot of Kilworth Mountain.
[+]5 George II c.21 [Bill No. 3612] For repairing the road leading from the town of Naas, in the county of Kildare, ...
5 George II c.21 [Bill No. 3612] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the town of Naas, in the county of Kildare, to the town of Maryborough, in the Queen's county.
[+]5 George II c.22 [Bill No. 3573] For repairing the road leading from the town of Newcastle, in the county of Lime ...
5 George II c.22 [Bill No. 3573] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For repairing the road leading from the town of Newcastle, in the county of Limerick, to the city of Limerick, and from thence to the city of Cork.
[+]5 George II c.23 [Bill No. 0199] For the relief of the creditors of James Meade and George Curtis, late bankers i ...
5 George II c.23 [Bill No. 0199] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
For the relief of the creditors of James Meade and George Curtis, late bankers in the city of Dublin.
Private Acts
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[+]5 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2458] To enable Bellingham Boyle, esquire, to make leases, and settle a jointure upon ...
5 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2458] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To enable Bellingham Boyle, esquire, to make leases, and settle a jointure upon any woman he shall marry, out of the towns, lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised in his grandfather's settlement.
[+]5 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2793] To enable Hayes St Leger, esquire, and Elizabeth St Leger, alias Deane, his wife ...
5 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2793] Royal Assent: 10 Mar 1732.
To enable Hayes St Leger, esquire, and Elizabeth St Leger, alias Deane, his wife, to sell the estate of said Elizabeth, lying dispersed in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Kilkenny, and Wexford, far distant from the said Hayes St Ledger's estate and place of residence in the county of Cork, and with the money arising by such sale to purchase other lands more contiguous, to be settled to same uses, to which the said lands so to be sold are limited.