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Session 1781

4th session of parliament elected in 1776. Dates of Session: 9 Oct 1781–27 Jul 1782

Dates on which acts received royal assent: 22 Dec 1781 (3 acts); 26 Dec 1781 (4 acts); 12 Feb 1782 (8 acts); 4 May 1782 (28 acts); 27 Jul 1782 (28 acts)

Total of 71 acts (64 public and 7 private)

The public acts of this session are printed in The statutes at large (21 vols, Dublin, 1786-1804), vol. xii, pp [1]-398.

Regnal year description in The statutes at large: 21 & 22 George III

Dates of regnal year of 21 George III: 25 Oct 1780–24 Oct 1781. Dates of regnal year of 22 George III: 25 Oct 1781–24 Oct 1782

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

Public Acts

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[+] 21 & 22 George III c.1 [Bill No. 3120] For granting unto his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, wine, hides and o ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.2 [Bill No. 1617] For granting unto his majesty the several aids, duties, rates, impositions and t ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.3 [Bill No. 3305] For granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors several duties upon stampe ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.4 [Bill No. 3354] For regulating and extending the tobacco trade, and for granting to his majesty, ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.5 [Bill No. 3123] For the advancement of trade, and for granting to his majesty, his heirs and suc ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.6 [Bill No. 3332] For regulating the sugar trade, and granting to his majesty, his heirs and succe ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.7 [Bill No. 2924] For allowing further time to persons in offices or employments to qualify themse ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.8 [Bill No. 1749] To promote the linen and hempen manufactures by increasing the supply of Irish f ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.9 [Bill No. 3124] For regulating drawbacks and bounties, preventing the export of manufacturing ut ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.10 [Bill No. 1039] To explain and amend an act passed in the 11th year of the reign of his present ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.11 [Bill No. 3869] For better securing the liberty of the subject.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.12 [Bill No. 0940] To revive and amend an act passed in the 17th and 18th years of his present maje ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.13 [Bill No. 0451] For extending the provisions of an act passed in this kingdom in the 6th year of ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.14 [Bill No. 1330] For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protesta ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.15 [Bill No. 3125] For continuing and amending several laws relating to his majesty's revenue, and ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.16 [Bill No. 0187] For establishing a bank by the name of the Governors and Company of the Bank of ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.17 [Bill No. 3837] For the improvement of the city of Dublin by making wide and convenient passages ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.18 [Bill No. 2030] For enlarging the time for trials by nisi prius in the city of Dublin and county ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.19 [Bill No. 0312] For vesting in his majesty, his heirs and successors certain premises in the cit ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.20 [Bill No. 1481] For the more speedy and effectual recovery of the king's debts.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.21 [Bill No. 1007] For the more effectually preventing the multiplying of votes at elections of mem ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.22 [Bill No. 2881] To explain and amend an act made in the 19th and 20th years of his present majes ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.23 [Bill No. 1805] For repealing so much of an act made in the 17th and 18th years of the reign of ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.24 [Bill No. 2109] For the further relief of his majesty's subjects of this kingdom professing the ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.25 [Bill No. 0898] For the relief of Protestant Dissenters in certain matters therein contained.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.26 [Bill No. 2108] To render the manner of conforming from the Popish to the Protestant religion mo ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.27 [Bill No. 1560] To enable the governors of any of the schools founded in this kingdom to make lo ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.28 [Bill No. 3681] To amend the laws for the erecting and regulating of free schools.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.29 [Bill No. 4138] For amending, altering and continuing an act entitled an act for regulating the ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.30 [Bill No. 0055] To remove certain doubts which have been conceived concerning the construction o ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.31 [Bill No. 3998] To enable the clergy to issue process or execution for debts due to them for tit ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.32 [Bill No. 0218] To regulate the admissions of barristers-at-law.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.33 [Bill No. 2925] To regulate the qualification of persons appointed to offices in this kingdom, w ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.34 [Bill No. 3722] For the relief of sheriffs from whom prisoners for debt shall be rescued in thei ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.35 [Bill No. 1745] For prohibiting the use of lime in bleaching, regulating seal masters of linens, ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.36 [Bill No. 0692] For better regulating the corn trade of this kingdom.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.37 [Bill No. 1146] To explain and amend the acts made for the encouragement of the fisheries of thi ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.38 [Bill No. 1651] To amend an act entitled an act for licensing and regulating lottery offices and ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.39 [Bill No. 3603] For the more effectual carrying into execution the several laws relating to the ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.40 [Bill No. 3803] For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.41 [Bill No. 1078] For discharging all prisoners now confined in the several gaols of this kingdom ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.42 [Bill No. 1239] For enforcing the due execution of the laws now in being, and for the better reg ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.43 [Bill No. 1928] For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and t ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.44 [Bill No. 2023] For the regulation of his majesty's marine forces while on shore.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.45 [Bill No. 2344] To explain and amend an act passed in the 11th and 12th years of his present maj ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.46 [Bill No. 2209] To promote the trade and manufactures, by regulating and encouraging partnership ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.47 [Bill No. 0003] To regulate the manner of passing bills, and to prevent delays in summoning of p ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.48 [Bill No. 3759] For extending certain of the provisions contained in an act entitled an act for ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.49 [Bill No. 1434] For redress of erroneous judgements, orders and decrees.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.50 [Bill No. 1422] For securing the independency of judges and the impartial administration of just ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.51 [Bill No. 2396] To amend an act entitled an act for the remitting of prisoners with their indict ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.52 [Bill No. 0511] To oblige churchwardens to account pursuant to an act for the better keeping chu ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.53 [Bill No. 1223] For the better preservation of the game.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.54 [Bill No. 2968] To prohibit the ransoming of ships or vessels captured from his majesty's subjec ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.55 [Bill No. 3371] To allow the importation of goods of the growth or produce or manufacture of St ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.56 [Bill No. 3355] To permit the importation of British plantation tobacco from any port or place e ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.57 [Bill No. 0899] For the relief of his majesty's dissenting subjects called seceders.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.58 [Bill No. 0077] For sparing to his majesty, to be drawn out of this kingdom whenever his majesty ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.59 [Bill No. 0832] For the relief of insolvent persons under a certain description.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.60 [Bill No. 2242] For paving the streets, lanes and other places in the city and county of the cit ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.61 [Bill No. 0086] To explain and amend an act entitled an act to prevent vexatious and frivolous a ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.62 [Bill No. 2111] To allow persons professing the Popish religion to teach school in this kingdom, ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.63 [Bill No. 1009] To explain and amend an act entitled an act for the more effectually preventing ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.64 [Bill No. 3554] To continue and amend the acts now in force for making and repairing the roads l ...

Private Acts

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[+] 21 & 22 George III c.1 (private) [Bill No. 2588] Ratifying an agreement made between Francis Charles, Lord Viscount Glerawley, an ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.2 (private) [Bill No. 2671] For vesting lands and tenements in the county of Limerick, part of the estate of ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.3 (private) [Bill No. 2715] For confirming and establishing an agreement made between the Right Honourable E ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.4 (private) [Bill No. 2507] For the sale of a competent part of the settled estates of Arthur Cooper, esquir ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.5 (private) [Bill No. 2765] For vesting in trustees the settled estate of James Carrique Ponsonby, esquire, ...

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.6 (private) [Bill No. 2722] For the relief of the creditors of Broghill Newburgh and Henry Archdall.

[+] 21 & 22 George III c.7 (private) [Bill No. 2586] To dissolve the marriage of Richard Gibbings, clerk, with Alice Gibbings, otherw ...