16th session of parliament elected in 1727. Dates of Session: 11 Oct 1757–29 Apr 1758
Dates on which acts received royal assent: 7 Dec 1757 (1 act); 3 Mar 1758 (4 acts); 29 Apr 1758 (21 acts)
Total of 35 acts (29 public and 6 private)
The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. vii, pp 491-612.
Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 31 George II
Dates of regnal year of 31 George II: 22 Jun 1757–21 Jun 1758
Enacted measures only are listed below. To see all measures of this session (including failed bills) click here
Public Acts
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[+]31 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3084] For granting and continuing to his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, stro ...
31 George II c.1 [Bill No. 3084] Royal Assent: 7 Dec 1757.
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 also for prohibiting the importation of gold and silver lace, except of the manufacture of Great Britain.
[+]31 George II c.2 [Bill No. 0902] To prevent the distilling of spirits from wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, beans ...
31 George II c.2 [Bill No. 0902] Royal Assent: 3 Mar 1758.
To prevent the distilling of spirits from wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, beans and peas, or from any potatoes, meal or flour of wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, beans or peas, for a limited time.
[+]31 George II c.3 [Bill No. 0666] For better supplying the city of Dublin with corn and flour.
31 George II c.3 [Bill No. 0666] Royal Assent: 3 Mar 1758.
For better supplying the city of Dublin with corn and flour.
[+]31 George II c.4 [Bill No. 2907] For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themse ...
31 George II c.4 [Bill No. 2907] Royal Assent: 3 Mar 1758.
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.
[+]31 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2140] For dissolving the union of the parishes of Clonliff and Dromgath in the diocese ...
31 George II c.5 [Bill No. 2140] Royal Assent: 3 Mar 1758.
For dissolving the union of the parishes of Clonliff and Dromgath in the diocese of Dromore.
[+]31 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3086] For continuing and amending the several laws heretofore made relating to his maj ...
31 George II c.6 [Bill No. 3086] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For continuing and amending the several laws heretofore made relating to his majesty's revenue, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds in his majesty's customs and excise.
[+]31 George II c.7 [Bill No. 1319] For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for encouragement of English Protestant s ...
31 George II c.7 [Bill No. 1319] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for encouragement of English Protestant schools.
[+]31 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3667] To prevent salesmen from being graziers, and to redress several abuses in buying ...
31 George II c.8 [Bill No. 3667] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To prevent salesmen from being graziers, and to redress several abuses in buying and selling of cattle and meat.
[+]31 George II c.9 [Bill No. 3783] For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes.
31 George II c.9 [Bill No. 3783] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes.
[+]31 George II c.10 [Bill No. 1672] For the more effectually preventing frauds committed by persons employed in the ...
31 George II c.10 [Bill No. 1672] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For the more effectually preventing frauds committed by persons employed in the manufacture of hats, and in the fustian, cotton, iron, fur, woollen, mohair and silk manufactures of this kingdom, and for continuing and amending an act made in the 7th year of his present majesty's reign, entitled, an act to prevent frauds and abuses in bay yarn exported to Great Britain.
[+]31 George II c.11 [Bill No. 5294] More effectually to enable the clergy, having cure of souls, to reside upon thei ...
31 George II c.11 [Bill No. 5294] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
More effectually to enable the clergy, having cure of souls, to reside upon their respective benefices, and to build upon their respective glebe lands.
[+]31 George II c.12 [Bill No. 0198] For the more effectual carrying into execution an act, entitled, an act for the ...
31 George II c.12 [Bill No. 0198] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For the more effectual carrying into execution an act, entitled, an act for the relief of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkiner, and of the creditors of the bank lately kept by Benjamin Burton, Samuel Burton and Daniel Falkiner, 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.
[+]31 George II c.13 [Bill No. 1130] To explain and amend the several laws made in this kingdom for the more effectua ...
31 George II c.13 [Bill No. 1130] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To explain and amend the several laws made in this kingdom for the more effectual preservation of salmon fish and fry, and for the better improvement of the herring fishery.
[+]31 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0588] For the better supplying the city of Dublin with coals, and for the better encou ...
31 George II c.14 [Bill No. 0588] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For the better supplying the city of Dublin with coals, and for the better encouragement of the collieries of this kingdom.
[+]31 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0589] To prevent unlawful combinations to raise the price of coals in the city of Dubl ...
31 George II c.15 [Bill No. 0589] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To prevent unlawful combinations to raise the price of coals in the city of Dublin.
[+]31 George II c.16 [Bill No. 0868] For the recovery of small debts in a summary way in the city of Dublin, and the ...
31 George II c.16 [Bill No. 0868] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For the recovery of small debts in a summary way in the city of Dublin, and the liberties thereof.
[+]31 George II c.17 [Bill No. 1690] To prevent frauds in lappers and others, and to prevent abuses in the manufactur ...
31 George II c.17 [Bill No. 1690] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To prevent frauds in lappers and others, and to prevent abuses in the manufacture of kelp, and to prevent unlawful combinations in weavers and others.
[+]31 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3468] For making and repairing the road from the town of Castlecomer in the county of ...
31 George II c.18 [Bill No. 3468] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For making and repairing the road from the town of Castlecomer in the county of Kilkenny, through the towns of Ballyraggett, Freshford and Hurlingford in the said county, to the town of Dundrum in the county of Tipperary, and from thence through Newcastle to the city of Limerick.
[+]31 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3833] For making a wide and convenient way, street and passage from Essex Bridge to th ...
31 George II c.19 [Bill No. 3833] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For making a wide and convenient way, street and passage from Essex Bridge to the Castle of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
[+]31 George II c.20 [Bill No. 0287] For the widening and repairing or rebuilding a bridge called Baal's Bridge in th ...
31 George II c.20 [Bill No. 0287] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For the widening and repairing or rebuilding a bridge called Baal's Bridge in the city and garrison of Limerick, and for enabling and obliging the persons entitled to the houses and ground on the said bridge to dispose of their interests in the same on reasonable terms, for the purposes aforesaid.
Private Acts
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[+]31 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2425] To supply an omission in a settlement made on the intermarriage of John Bayly of ...
31 George II c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2425] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To supply an omission in a settlement made on the intermarriage of John Bayly of Desborough in the county of Tipperary esquire, and to confirm the remainders limited by the said settlement to the sons of the said John Bayly, by an after taken wife.
[+]31 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2750] To enable Pigot Parsons St George, esquire, William Parsons, esquire, William Pa ...
31 George II c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2750] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To enable Pigot Parsons St George, esquire, William Parsons, esquire, William Parsons and Laurence Parsons, minors, under the age of 21 years, sons of the said William Parsons, to sell one undivided 3rd part of the several lands in the county of Galway, for the payment of charges and encumbrances affecting the same, and other purposes therein mentioned, and to enable Sir Ralph Gore St George, baronet, to sell and dispose of the manor, deer park, towns and lands of Manor Hamilton in the co. Leitrim, part of his settled estate, and with the money arising from the sale of the said lands, to purchase the undivided 3rd part of the said lands in the co. Galway, and settle the same to the same uses that the said manor, town and lands of Manor Hamilton are settled.
[+]31 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2749] For vesting the estate of Dame Mary Parsons, daughter and heiress of John Cleare ...
31 George II c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2749] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For vesting the estate of Dame Mary Parsons, daughter and heiress of John Cleare, late of Kilbury in the Co. Tipperary, esquire, deceased, comprehended in certain articles previous to the marriage of the said Dame Mary with Sir William Parsons, baronet, in certain trustees, for sale of a sufficient part thereof, to discharge the debts of the said John Cleare, and also the debts not exceeding £6,000 of the said Sir William Parsons, and for settling such part of the estate of the said Dame Mary as shall remain unsold, and the whole of the estate of the said Sir William Parsons comprehended in articles so executed, previous to the intermarriage of the said Sir William Parsons and Dame Mary, to and for the uses and purposes mentioned in or intended by the said articles, touching the said estates respectively, and also for settling certain lands which the said Sir William Parsons is seized in fee of, to the same uses and for the same trusts, intents and purposes, expressed in the said articles touching and concerning the estate of the said Dame Mary Parsons, except only so far as the said articles relate to the debts of the said John Cleare.
[+]31 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2634] To enable and empower certain trustees to demise or lease certain houses and gro ...
31 George II c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2634] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To enable and empower certain trustees to demise or lease certain houses and ground in the city and suburbs of the city of Dublin in the kingdom of Ireland, the estate of John Allen Johnson, a minor, under the age of 21 years, for any number of years, or for lives, with or without covenants of renewal forever, in possession or reversion.
[+]31 George II c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2620] To enable the parties in a suit now depending in his majesty's court of chancery ...
31 George II c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2620] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
To enable the parties in a suit now depending in his majesty's court of chancery in Ireland, wherein the Right Honourable Arthur Hill, esquire, and Ann Hill, otherwise Stafford his wife, are plaintiffs, and the Reverend Samuel Hutchinson, dean of Dromore, and several others, are defendants, to raise the sum of £5,500 and interest, and to pay the same to the plaintiffs, pursuant to an agreement, in order finally to end the said suit amicably, as also to raise the money expended by the defendants in defending the said suit, and to defray the expenses that shall attend the passing of this act, and to enable Henry Hutchinson O'Hara, esquire, and also the Reverend Hutchinson Hamilton, clerk, and Charles Hamilton, esquire, to make leases of certain lands in this bill particularly mentioned, and to preserve the contingent remainders limited by the will of the Right Reverend Francis Hutchinson, late lord bishop of Down and Connor, from being defeated and destroyed.
[+]31 George II c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2800] For vesting the estate of Thomas Shaw of the town of Galway, esquire, in trustee ...
31 George II c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2800] Royal Assent: 29 Apr 1758.
For vesting the estate of Thomas Shaw of the town of Galway, esquire, in trustees, to be sold for the payment of encumbrances affecting the same.
