13th session of parliament elected in 1727. Dates of Session: 8 Oct 1751–7 May 1752
Dates on which acts received royal assent: 19 Dec 1751 (2 acts); 7 Mar 1752 (6 acts); 1 May 1752 (8 acts); 7 May 1752 (11 acts)
Total of 27 acts (23 public and 4 private)
The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. vii, pp 99-254.
Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 25 George II
Dates of regnal year of 25 George II: 11 Jun 1751–10 Jun 1752
Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here
Public Acts
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[+]25 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3079] For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, stro ...
25 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3079] Royal Assent: 19 Dec 1751.
For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, strong waters, wine, tobacco, hides and other goods and merchandises therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, except of the manufacture of Great Britain.
[+]25 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1595] For payment of the principal of £120,000 in discharge of so much of the na ...
25 George II c.2 [Bill No. 1595] Royal Assent: 19 Dec 1751.
For payment of the principal of £120,000 in discharge of 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 4s. in the pound on all salaries, profits of employment, fees and pensions, to be applied to discharge the interest of the said principal sum, until the same shall be paid, and also to pay an interest of £4 per cent per annum for the sum of £117,500, which will remain due after payment of the said sum of £120,000, and towards the discharge of the said sum of £117,500, or so much thereof as shall remain due on the 25th day of December, 1751.
[+]25 George II c.3 [Bill No. 2167] To continue the parliament for three years, whensoever and as often as the crown ...
25 George II c.3 [Bill No. 2167] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
To continue the parliament for three years, whensoever and as often as the crown shall descend to any of the children of his late royal highness Frederick prince of Wales, being under the age of 18 years, unless it shall be dissolved before that time.
[+]25 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1316] For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protesta ...
25 George II c.4 [Bill No. 1316] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools.
[+]25 George II c.5 [Bill No. 1218] For the better preservation of the game.
25 George II c.5 [Bill No. 1218] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
For the better preservation of the game.
[+]25 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3780] For continuing several temporary statutes now near expiring.
25 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3780] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
For continuing several temporary statutes now near expiring.
[+]25 George II c.7 [Bill No. 2904] For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themse ...
25 George II c.7 [Bill No. 2904] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
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.
[+]25 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3692] For the better adjusting and more easy recovery of the wages of certain servants ...
25 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3692] Royal Assent: 7 Mar 1752.
For the better adjusting and more easy recovery of the wages of certain servants, and for the better regulation of such servants, and of certain apprentices, and for the punishment of all such owners of coal and their agents, as shall knowingly employ and set at work, persons retained in the service of other coal owners, and also that mutual debts between party and party be set one against the other.
[+]25 George II c.9 [Bill No. 3075] For continuing and amending several laws hereforto made, relating to his majesty ...
25 George II c.9 [Bill No. 3075] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
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.
[+]25 George II c.10 [Bill No. 3937] For amending an act, entitled, an act for encouragement of tillage, and better e ...
25 George II c.10 [Bill No. 3937] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For amending an act, entitled, an act for encouragement of tillage, and better employment of the poor, and also for the more effectual putting in execution an act entitled an act to encourage the draining and improving of bogs and unprofitable low grounds, and for easing and dispatching the inland carriage and conveyance of goods from one part to another in this kingdom, and also for laying several duties upon coaches, berlins, chariots, calashes, chaises and chairs, and upon cards and dice, and upon wrought and manufactured gold and silver plate imported into or made in Ireland, for the purposes therein mentioned, and also for repealing the duties payable upon the exportation of wool, bay yarn and woollen yarn out of this kingdom for England.
[+]25 George II c.11 [Bill No. 0884] For avoiding and putting an end to certain doubts and questions relating to the ...
25 George II c.11 [Bill No. 0884] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For avoiding and putting an end to certain doubts and questions relating to the attestation of wills and codicils, concerning real estates.
[+]25 George II c.12 [Bill No. 2351] For the more effectual execution of orders of the courts of justice for giving a ...
25 George II c.12 [Bill No. 2351] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For the more effectual execution of orders of the courts of justice for giving and quieting possessions, and also for the more effectually bringing to justice such persons as shall enlist his majesty's subjects to serve as soldiers in foreign service, without licence.
[+]25 George II c.13 [Bill No. 1494] For explaining, amending and making more effectual the laws relating to landlord ...
25 George II c.13 [Bill No. 1494] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For explaining, amending and making more effectual the laws relating to landlord and tenant.
[+]25 George II c.14 [Bill No. 1432] To explain and amend an act, passed in the 9th year of the reign of his present ...
25 George II c.14 [Bill No. 1432] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
To explain and amend an act, passed in the 9th year of the reign of his present majesty, entitled, an act for the more effectual assignment of judgments, and for the more speedy recovery of rents by distress, so far as the said act relates to the assignment of judgments and statutes, and to prevent great inconveniencies that frequently happen to the suitors of the court of Chancery, by the death or removal of a six clerk or six clerks of the said court, and to enable grand juries to make presentments for clerks of the crown and peace.
[+]25 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0661] For buying and selling of all sorts of corn and meal, and other things therein m ...
25 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0661] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For 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.
[+]25 George II c.16 [Bill No. 0356] For explaining and amending the several laws now in being relating to the workho ...
25 George II c.16 [Bill No. 0356] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For explaining and amending the several laws now in being relating to the workhouse of the city of Dublin, so far as the same relates to the rates of hackney coaches and hackney coachmen, and sedan chairs and chairmen, in and about the said city.
[+]25 George II c.17 [Bill No. 3483] For repairing the road, leading from the town of Clonmel, in the county of Tippe ...
25 George II c.17 [Bill No. 3483] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For repairing the road, leading from the town of Clonmel, in the county of Tipperary, through the towns of Fethard, and Killenall, in the said county, to the town of Hurlingford, in the county Kilkenny.
[+]25 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3597] For making and repairing the road leading from the town of Mountrath, in the Que ...
25 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3597] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For making and repairing the road leading from the town of Mountrath, in the Queen's County, through the towns and lands of Litter, Frankford, Galrus, and Cloniver, in the King's county, to the town and lands of Clonefin, in the said county.
[+]25 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3454] For making and repairing the road leading from the town of Athy in the county of ...
25 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3454] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For making and repairing the road leading from the town of Athy in the county of Kildare, through part of the Queen's County, and through the town of Castlecomer in the county of Kilkenny, to the town of old Leighlin in the county of Carlow, and from thence to and through the town of Leighlinbridge in the said County Carlow.
[+]25 George II c.20 [Bill No. 3456] For making and repairing the road leading from Ballynagarr in the King's County, ...
25 George II c.20 [Bill No. 3456] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For making and repairing the road leading from Ballynagarr in the King's County, through the bog of Allen and lands adjacent, to the town of Clane in the county of Kildare.
[+]25 George II c.21 [Bill No. 3550] For the more effectual repairing and amending the road leading from the city of ...
25 George II c.21 [Bill No. 3550] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For the more effectual repairing and amending the road leading from the city of Kilkenny, to the town of Clonmel in the county Tipperary, and for discharging the said road from all encumbrances by fraud affecting the same, and for relief of Richard Gore, esquire, and Anne his wife, administratrix of William Gore, esquire, deceased, and of John Wallis, esquire, administrator, with the will annexed of Henry Wallis, esquire, deceased.
[+]25 George II c.22 [Bill No. 2476] For more effectual carrying into execution an act, entitled, an act for the reli ...
25 George II c.22 [Bill No. 2476] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For more effectual carrying into execution an act, entitled, an act for the relief of creditors of the bank lately kept by Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton, Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Samuel Burton, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton and Francis Harrison, by taking away the benefit of pleading the statutes of limitations from the several debtors to the said several banks, and to the said several bankers, and to enable the said creditors to make composition for their several debts.
[+]25 George II c.23 [Bill No. 0443] For establishing an infirmary in the city of Cork, and to vest the house called ...
25 George II c.23 [Bill No. 0443] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For establishing an infirmary in the city of Cork, and to vest the house called the infirmary house, and the back yard thereunto belonging, which is built at the east end of the church yard of St Mary Shandon, otherwise St Ann's in the liberties of the city of Cork, in certain trustees forever, and to give such trustees, such powers as may be necessary to promote and execute the purposes of an infirmary in the city of Cork, and for uniting several small parishes in the suburbs of the said city.
Private Acts
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[+]25 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2644] To enable the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Lord bishop of Kilmore, and h ...
25 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2644] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
To enable the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Lord bishop of Kilmore, and his successors, to exchange certain lands belonging to said see, with William Gore, of Woodford, esquire.
[+]25 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2573] For vesting certain manors, lands, and hereditaments in this kingdom, the estate ...
25 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2573] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
For vesting certain manors, lands, and hereditaments in this kingdom, the estate of Andrew Fitzherbert, esquire, in trustees, in order that a competent part thereof may be sold, for the payment of debts and other encumbrances affecting the same, and for settling other lands in lieu of the lands to be sold.
[+]25 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2584] To dissolve the marriage of George Frend, esquire, captain of a company of foot ...
25 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2584] Royal Assent: 1 May 1752.
To dissolve the marriage of George Frend, esquire, captain of a company of foot in the regiment commanded by the Honourable Colonel Waldegrave, with Elizabeth Vanluen, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
[+]25 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 0321] For selling or leasing certain lands, houses and edifices, with their appurtenan ...
25 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 0321] Royal Assent: 7 May 1752.
For selling or leasing certain lands, houses and edifices, with their appurtenances, commonly called the King's Inns, situate in the county of the city of Dublin, for the purposes therein mentioned.