12th session of parliament elected in 1727. Dates of Session: 10 Oct 1749–14 Apr 1750
Dates on which acts received royal assent: 23 Dec 1749 (2 acts); 14 Apr 1750 (19 acts)
Total of 21 acts (19 public and 2 private)
The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. vii, pp [1]-98. (The last act, 23 George II c.19, begins on p. 98, but is continued by subsequent pages, numbered 1 . 7, before normal pagination resumes on p. 99.)
Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 23 George II
Dates of regnal year of 23 George II: 11 Jun 1749–10 Jun 1750
Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here
Public Acts
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[+]23 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3078] For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, stro ...
23 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3078] Royal Assent: 23 Dec 1749.
For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, hides, and other goods and merchandizes therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, except of the manufacture of Great Britain.
[+]23 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1594] For payment of the principal sums of £70,000 and £58,500, in dischar ...
23 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1594] Royal Assent: 23 Dec 1749.
For payment of the principal sums of £70,000 and £58,500, in discharge for so much of the national debt, and for granting to his majesty an additional duty on wine, silk, hops, china, earthen, japanned or lacquered ware, and vinegar, and also a tax of 4 s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employments, fees and pensions, to be applied to discharge the interest of the said principal sums, until the same shall be paid, and also to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum for the sum of £250,000, which will remain due after the payments aforesaid, and an interest of £4 per cent per annum for such further sums as may hereafter be borrowed, pursuant to an act, passed in the 19th year of his present majesty's reign, and towards the discharge of the said principal sum of £250,000.
[+]23 George II c.3 [Bill No. 3074] For continuing and amending several laws hereforto made relating to his majesty' ...
23 George II c.3 [Bill No. 3074] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For continuing and amending several laws hereforto made relating to his majesty's revenue, and for more effectual preventing frauds in his majesty's customs and excise.
[+]23 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1315] For the licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Prot ...
23 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1315] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For the licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant Schools.
[+]23 George II c.5 [Bill No. 5283] For granting and continuing to his majesty, several duties upon coaches, berlins ...
23 George II c.5 [Bill No. 5283] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For granting and continuing to his majesty, several duties upon coaches, berlins, chariots, calashes, chaises and chairs, and upon cards and dice, and upon wrought and manufactured gold and silver plate, for the purposes therein mentioned.
[+]23 George II c.6 [Bill No. 1726] For the further improvement of the flaxen and hempen manufacture.
23 George II c.6 [Bill No. 1726] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For the further improvement of the flaxen and hempen manufacture.
[+]23 George II c.7 [Bill No. 2903] For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themse ...
23 George II c.7 [Bill No. 2903] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themselves, pursuant to an act, entitled, an act to prevent the further growth of Popery.
[+]23 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3779] For continuing several temporary statutes.
23 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3779] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For continuing several temporary statutes.
[+]23 George II c.9 [Bill No. 1896] For explaining and amending an act, entitled, an act for the further encourageme ...
23 George II c.9 [Bill No. 1896] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For explaining and amending an act, entitled, an act for the further encouragement of finding and working mines and minerals within this kingdom.
[+]23 George II c.10 [Bill No. 1829] For explaining and making more effectual an act, entitled, an act for the more e ...
23 George II c.10 [Bill No. 1829] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For explaining and making more effectual an act, entitled, an act for the more effectual preventing clandestine marriages, and another act, passed in the 12th year of his late majesty's reign, entitled, an act to prevent marriages by degraded clergymen and Popish priests, and for preventing marriages consummated from being avoided by pre-contracts, and for the more effectual punishing of bigamy.
[+]23 George II c.11 [Bill No. 2337] To provide for begging children, and for the better regulation of charity school ...
23 George II c.11 [Bill No. 2337] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
To provide for begging children, and for the better regulation of charity schools, and for taking up vagrant and offensive beggars in the city of Dublin and liberties thereof, and the liberties thereto adjoining.
[+]23 George II c.12 [Bill No. 3986] For amending, continuing and making more effectual, the several acts now in forc ...
23 George II c.12 [Bill No. 3986] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For amending, continuing and making more effectual, the several acts now in force in this kingdom, for the more easy recovery of tithes and other ecclesiastical dues of small value, and also for the more easy providing a maintenance for parish clerks.
[+]23 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3720] For the better securing the persons who have served, or hereafter shall serve, i ...
23 George II c.13 [Bill No. 3720] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For the better securing the persons who have served, or hereafter shall serve, in the office of sheriff in this kingdom, against the defaults and neglects of their clerks, sub-sheriffs and attorneys.
[+]23 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0627] For amendment of the law in relation to the appointing high and petty constables ...
23 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0627] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For amendment of the law in relation to the appointing high and petty constables.
[+]23 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0368] For continuing and amending an act, passed in the 10th year of the reign of his ...
23 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0368] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For continuing and amending an act, passed in the 10th year of the reign of his late majesty King George I, entitled, an act for regulating abuses committed in buying and selling of cattle and sheep, in the several markets in this Kingdom.
[+]23 George II c.16 [Bill No. 3408] For the more effectual amending and keeping in repair the several turnpike roads ...
23 George II c.16 [Bill No. 3408] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For the more effectual amending and keeping in repair the several turnpike roads in this kingdom, and for better securing the creditors of the said roads.
[+]23 George II c.17 [Bill No. 0809] For the relief of insolvent debtors.
23 George II c.17 [Bill No. 0809] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For the relief of insolvent debtors.
[+]23 George II c.18 [Bill No. 0458] For regulating the hospital founded by Mary Mercer, spinster.
23 George II c.18 [Bill No. 0458] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For regulating the hospital founded by Mary Mercer, spinster.
[+]23 George II c.19 [Bill No. 2137] For dividing the parish of St. Mary within the city and suburbs of Dublin, into ...
23 George II c.19 [Bill No. 2137] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For dividing the parish of St. Mary within the city and suburbs of Dublin, into two distinct parishes.
Private Acts
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[+]23 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2819] For vesting part of the estate of William Steuart of the Castle of Baillyburrow ...
23 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2819] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
For vesting part of the estate of William Steuart of the Castle of Baillyburrow in the Co. Cavan, esquire, in trustees, for raising, by sale thereof, the sum of £4000, charged upon the said estate for the portion of Rebecca Eccles otherwise Steuart, his sister, by the last will and testament of Charles Stuart, esquire, deceased, his father.
[+]23 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2852] To enable Robert Warren and William Warren, esquires, to come to a partition or ...
23 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2852] Royal Assent: 14 Apr 1750.
To enable Robert Warren and William Warren, esquires, to come to a partition or division of several lands, tenements, and hereditaments in the county of Cork and in the city of Cork.