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| Session | Short Title | Title | Statute Number |
| 1781 | Dublin city improvement | To revive and amend an act passed in the 17th and 18th years of his present majesty's reign entitled an act for the further improvement of the city of Dublin, in the manner therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.12 |
| 1781 | Privilege of parliament | For making perpetual an act made in the 12th year of his present majesty entitled an act for further preventing delays of justice by reason of privilege of parliament. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Privilege of parliament | For continuing for a limited time an act made in the 12th year of his present majesty entitled an act for further preventing delays of justice by reason of privilege of parliament. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Trials by nisi prius in Dublin | For enlarging the time for trials by nisi prius in the city of Dublin and county of Dublin, and for making the process of the court of exchequer more effectual against persons who, being served therewith, refuse to appear. | 21 & 22 George III c.18 |
| 1781 | Attornies | To explain and amend an act passed in the 13th and 14th years of his majesty's reign entitled an act for the better regulation of the admission and practice of attornies. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Tithes | To enable the clergy to issue process or execution for debts due to them for tithes or dues under the sum of £5. | 21 & 22 George III c.31 |
| 1781 | Quieting possessions held under English or British acts of parliament | For quieting possessions held under English or British acts of parliament. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Leases by schools | To enable the governors of any of the schools founded in this kingdom to make long leases of such lands as have been granted for the support of the said schools, and are situate in counties of cities and counties of towns. | 21 & 22 George III c.27 |
| 1781 | Intermarriage between persons of different religious persuasions | For allowing his majesty's subjects of different religious persuasions to intermarry with each other. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Relief of sheriffs from whom prisoners for debt rescued | For the relief of sheriffs from whom prisoners for debt shall be rescued in their removal by virtue of writs of habeas corpus in such cases where the said sheriffs shall appear to have been guilty of no neglect or default. | 21 & 22 George III c.34 |
| 1781 | Crown debts | For the more speedy and effectual recovery of the king's debts. | 21 & 22 George III c.20 |
| 1781 | Prosecutions for felony | For the furtherance of justice, by affording relief to prosecutors for grand or petty larceny or other felony, and by allowing to poor persons bound to give evidence in such cases their reasonable charges and expenses. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Preservation of game | For the better preservation of the game. | 21 & 22 George III c.53 |
| 1781 | Road from Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, to Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny | To amend an act entitled an act for repairing the road leading from the town of Clonmel in the county of Tipperary, through the towns of Fethard and Killinall in the said county, to the town of Urlingford in the county of Kilkenny. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Prisoners for fees | For discharging all prisoners now confined in the several gaols of this kingdom for fees only. | 21 & 22 George III c.41 |
| 1781 | Representation of the people in parliament | For the more equal representation of the people in parliament. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Poynings' law | For declaring the sole and exclusive right of the Irish parliament to make laws in all cases whatsoever, internal and external, for the kingdom of Ireland. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Wreck and salvage | To amend and explain the several laws now in force in this kingdom relative to wreck and salvage. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Stealing of iron palisadoes | To prevent the stealing of iron palisadoes. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Qualification of office holders | To regulate the qualification of persons appointed to offices in this kingdom, wherein two or more grantees act under grant, commission or appointment. | 21 & 22 George III c.33 |
| 1781 | Attornies | To amend the laws relative to the practice of attornies, and to the mode of recovering their demands against their clients. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Outlawries in civil actions | For the amendment of the law, with respect to outlawries in civil actions. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Tithe commutation | For the commutation of tithes. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Coal trade | To amend an act entitled an act to prevent the excessive price of coals. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Bishops' leases | To enable archbishops, bishops and other ecclesiastical persons to make leases for any number of years not exceeding 61. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Army regulation ('mutiny') | To amend, explain and limit an act entitled an act for the better accommodation and regulation of his majesty's army in this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Hawkers and pedlars, and English Protestant schools | For licensing hawkers and pedlars, and for the encouragement of English Protestant schools, and for such other purposes as are therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.14 |
| 1781 | Mutiny | For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Church repairs, and Ferns | To oblige churchwardens to account pursuant to an act for the better keeping churches in repair, and to make the cathedral church of Ferns the parish church of the parish of Ferns. | 21 & 22 George III c.52 |
| 1781 | Remitting of prisoners to places where crimes committed | To amend an act entitled an act for the remitting of prisoners with their indictments by the justices of his majesty's court of king's bench to the places where the crimes were committed. | 21 & 22 George III c.51 |
| 1781 | Dissolving marriage of Richard Gibbings and Alice Hyde | To dissolve the marriage of Richard Gibbings, clerk, with Alice Gibbings, otherwise Hyde, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again. | 21 & 22 George III c.7 (private) |
| 1781 | John Knox | For vesting the real, freehold and personal estates of John Knox, esquire, in trustees, for discharging a debt due to his majesty. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Paving and nuisances in Dublin | For better paving the squares, streets, lanes, courts, alleys, quays and bridges within the limits or circuit of the circular or environ, whether within the county of Dublin or within the city and county of the city of Dublin, and the liberties thereof, except such parts of the barony of Donore as lie within the limits of said road, and for other purposes relative to the said city and county of the city of Dublin, and the liberties thereof, and for preventing and removing annoyances, obstructions and nuisances within the same. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Paving and nuisances in Dublin | For paving the streets, lanes and other places in the city and county of the city of Dublin, and liberties thereof, and for preventing and removing obstructions and annoyances within the same, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.60 |
| 1781 | Ransoming of ships | To prohibit the ransoming of ships or vessels captured from his majesty's subjects of this kingdom, and of the merchandise or goods on board such ships or vessels. | 21 & 22 George III c.54 |
| 1781 | Juries | To regulate the attendance of persons returned to serve on grand and petty juries. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Liberty of the subject | For better securing the liberty of the subject. | 21 & 22 George III c.11 |
| 1781 | James Nicholson | For vesting certain lands and premises therein mentioned, the estate of James Nicholson, esquire, in trustees for the sale of a competent part of the said estate for the payment of debts, and for settling such parts of the said estate as shall remain unsold. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Roads from Dublin to Mullingar, from Chapelizod to Dublin and from Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, to O'Brien's Bridge, Co. Clare | For the more effectual carrying into execution the several laws relating to the turnpike road leading from the city of Dublin to Mullingar, and for enabling the trustees of said road to widen and make more convenient the approaches from the town of Chapelizod to the city of Dublin, and for other purposes, and for correcting a mistake in an act passed in the last session of parliament in this kingdom entitled an act for making a turnpike road from Nenagh in the county of Tipperary to O'Brien's Bridge in the county of Clare. | 21 & 22 George III c.39 |
| 1781 | Securities by mortgage | To amend an act entitled an act for rendering securities by mortgage more effectual. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Nicholas Lysaght | For vesting lands and tenements in the county of Limerick, part of the estate of Nicholas Lysaght in the city of Cork, esquire, in trustees, for raising money to pay and discharge certain debts and encumbrances affecting the said Nicholas Lysaght. | 21 & 22 George III c.2 (private) |
| 1781 | Free schools | To amend the laws for the erecting and regulating of free schools. | 21 & 22 George III c.28 |
| 1781 | Police in Dublin | For the further improvement and regulation of the police of the city and county of the city of Dublin, the franchises and parts of the county of Dublin adjacent thereto. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Vexatious arrests | To explain and amend an act entitled an act to prevent vexatious and frivolous arrests, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.61 |
| 1781 | Mutiny | For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters, as also for the repeal of an act entitled an act for the better accommodation and regulation of his majesty's army in this kingdom. | 21 & 22 George III c.43 |
| 1781 | Annuities | To remove certain doubts which have been conceived concerning the construction of three several acts of parliament for granting annuities to such persons as should voluntarily subscribe the sums therein respectively mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.30 |
| 1781 | Fisheries | To explain and amend the acts made for the encouragement of the fisheries of this kingdom, and for promoting the good ends proposed by the said laws. | 21 & 22 George III c.37 |
| 1781 | Revenue | For continuing and amending several laws relating to his majesty's revenue, and for the more effectually preventing of frauds therein, and for such other purposes as are therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.15 |
| 1781 | Site for Custom House in Dublin | For vesting in his majesty, his heirs and successors certain premises in the city of Dublin therein mentioned for the purpose of erecting a custom house thereon, with proper accommodations suitable to the trade of the said city and sufficient for the collection of his majesty's revenue. | 21 & 22 George III c.19 |
| 1781 | Wide streets in Dublin, and coal trade in Dublin | For the improvement of the city of Dublin by making wide and convenient passages through the same, and for regulating the coal trade therein. | 21 & 22 George III c.17 |
| 1781 | Lottery offices | To amend an act entitled an act for licensing and regulating lottery offices and for other purposes therein mentioned, made in the 19th and 20th years of his present majesty's reign. | 21 & 22 George III c.38 |
| 1781 | Relief of protestant dissenters called seceders | For the relief of his majesty's dissenting subjects called seceders. | 21 & 22 George III c.57 |
| 1781 | Regulation of gaols, and sessions of the peace | For enforcing the due execution of the laws now in being, and for the better regulating the public gaols and prisons in this kingdom, and providing necessary accommodations for the persons confined therein, and for the more effectual administration of justice at sessions, and by justices of the peace in cities and counties of cities within this kingdom. | 21 & 22 George III c.42 |
| 1781 | Qualification of members of parliament | For securing the freedom of parliaments, by the further qualifying members to sit in the house of commons. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Relief of creditors of Richard Gore | For the relief of the creditors of the Honourable Richard Gore. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Insolvent debtors | For relief of insolvent debtors. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Regulating parliament elections | To explain and amend an act entitled an act for the more effectually preventing the multiplying votes at elections of members to serve in parliament for boroughs, where the right of voting is vested in the Protestant inhabitants in general, or Protestant inhabitants and others. | 21 & 22 George III c.63 |
| 1781 | Popish education | For the better regulating the education of Papists or persons professing the Popish religion. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Rendering conformity from Popish to Protestant religion easier | To render the manner of conforming from the Popish to the Protestant religion more easy and expeditious. | 21 & 22 George III c.26 |
| 1781 | Relief for those professing the Popish religion | For the further relief of his majesty's subjects of this kingdom professing the Popish religion. | 21 & 22 George III c.24 |
| 1781 | Bank of Ireland | For establishing a bank by the name of the Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland. | 21 & 22 George III c.16 |
| 1781 | Qualification of office holders under act to prevent further growth of Popery | 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. | 21 & 22 George III c.7 |
| 1781 | Francis, Viscount Glerawley; Arthur Annesley; Arthur Plunkett, called earl of Fingal | Ratifying an agreement made between Francis Charles, Lord Viscount Glerawley, and Arthur Annesley, esquire, and Arthur James Plunkett, esquire, commonly called earl of Fingal, touching the lands of Killallon in the county of Meath, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.1 (private) |
| 1781 | Regulating parliament elections | To explain and amend an act passed in the 11th year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act to regulate the trials of controverted elections, or returns of members to serve in parliament. | 21 & 22 George III c.10 |
| 1781 | Corn trade | For better regulating the corn trade of this kingdom. | 21 & 22 George III c.36 |
| 1781 | Tenure of judges' employment | For making the commissions of judges to continue quam diu se bene gesserint. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Tenure of judges' employment and impartial administration of justice | For securing the independency of judges and the impartial administration of justice. | 21 & 22 George III c.50 |
| 1781 | Drawbacks and bounties | For regulating drawbacks and bounties, preventing the export of manufacturing utensils, except to Great Britain, for encouraging the import of organzined silk, and of goods from certain places therein named. | 21 & 22 George III c.9 |
| 1781 | Partnerships and promotion of trade | To promote the trade and manufactures, by regulating and encouraging partnerships. | 21 & 22 George III c.46 |
| 1781 | Linen, hemp and flax seed | To promote the linen and hempen manufactures by increasing the supply of Irish flax seed, and encouraging the export of linens and sail cloth, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.8 |
| 1781 | Additional duty | For granting unto his majesty an additional duty on beer, ale, wine, hides and other goods and merchandises therein mentioned, and for prohibiting the importation of all gold and silver lace, and of all cambrics and lawns, except of the manufacture of Great Britain, and of all hops, except of the growth of Great Britain and the British plantations, and of all glass, except from Great Britain. | 21 & 22 George III c.1 |
| 1781 | Duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper | For granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors several duties upon stamped vellum, parchment and paper. | 21 & 22 George III c.3 |
| 1781 | Government loan | For granting unto his majesty the several aids, duties, rates, impositions and taxes therein particularly expressed to be applied to the payment of the interest of the sums therein provided for, and towards the discharge of the said principal sums in such manner as therein is directed, and for such other purposes as are therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.2 |
| 1781 | Advancement of trade and duties | For the advancement of trade, and for granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors the several duties therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.5 |
| 1781 | Tobacco trade, and duties | For regulating and extending the tobacco trade, and for granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors the duties therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.4 |
| 1781 | Flax seed and linen | For encouraging the growth of Irish flax seed, and discontinuing the bounties on imported flax seed, and giving bounties on exported linens and other articles. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Sugar trade and duties | For regulating the sugar trade, and granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors the several duties therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.6 |
| 1781 | Linen | For prohibiting the use of lime in bleaching, regulating seal masters of linens, encouraging the home manufacture of ashes for bleachers' use, enlarging and rendering more commodious the Linen Hall in the city of Dublin, and other purposes therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.35 |
| 1781 | West Indian imports and sugar trade | To allow the importation of goods of the growth or produce or manufacture of St Christopher's, Nevis and Montserrat upon the like duties as are payable on the importation of British plantation goods, and to amend an act passed this session of parliament entitled an act for regulating the sugar trade, and for granting to his majesty, his heirs and successors the duties therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.55 |
| 1781 | Tobacco trade | To permit the importation of British plantation tobacco from any port or place either in America or in the West Indies or in Europe during the present hostilities. | 21 & 22 George III c.56 |
| 1781 | Regulating parliament elections | For the more effectually preventing the multiplying of votes at elections of members to serve in parliament for boroughs where the right of voting is vested in the Protestant inhabitants in general, or Protestant inhabitants and others. | 21 & 22 George III c.21 |
| 1781 | Roads in Co. Dublin | For making, widening and repairing public roads in the county of Dublin, and for repealing parts of several acts formerly made for that purpose. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Popish education and guardianship | To allow persons professing the Popish religion to teach school in this kingdom, and for regulating the education of Papists, and also to repeal parts of several laws relative to the guardianship of their children. | 21 & 22 George III c.62 |
| 1781 | Withdrawal of troops from Ireland | For sparing to his majesty, to be drawn out of this kingdom whenever his majesty shall think fit, a force not exceeding 5,000 men, part of the troops appointed to remain in this kingdom for its defence. | 21 & 22 George III c.58 |
| 1781 | Arthur, Sarah and William Cooper | For the sale of a competent part of the settled estates of Arthur Cooper, esquire, Sarah Cooper, otherwise Carlton, and William Henry Cooper, for the payment of debts and other encumbrances affecting the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.4 (private) |
| 1781 | Edmond, Viscount Mountgarrett | For confirming and establishing an agreement made between the Right Honourable Edmond, Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, as well on behalf of himself as on behalf of his sons, the Honourable Edmond Butler, the Honourable Somerset Richard Butler, the Honourable Henry Butler and the Honourable Pierce Butler, of the one part, and the Honourable and Reverend Richard Butler and the Honourable Simon Butler, of the other part, concerning certain parts of the real estate whereof Edmond, Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, their grandfather, and Edmond, Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, their father were in the lifetimes respectively seised, and for putting an end to all controversies respecting the same, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.3 (private) |
| 1781 | Woollen manufacture | For repealing so much of an act made in the 17th and 18th years of the reign of King Charles II entitled an act for the true making of all sorts of cloth called the old and new drapery, and the true searching and sealing thereof by his majesty's alnager within this kingdom, and also so much of an act made in the 19th and 20th years of his present majesty's reign entitled an act for the better regulation of the woollen manufacture of this kingdom, as relate to the new drapery, cottons and stockings, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.23 |
| 1781 | Inland fisheries | For regulating the inland fisheries of this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Redress of erroneous judgements | For redress of erroneous judgements, orders and decrees. | 21 & 22 George III c.49 |
| 1781 | Infirmaries and hospitals | For extending the provisions of an act passed in this kingdom in the 6th year of the reign of his present majesty entitled an act for erecting and establishing public infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom. | 21 & 22 George III c.13 |
| 1781 | Regulation of gaols, and sessions of the peace | For enforcing the due execution of the laws now in being, and for the better regulating the public gaols and prisons n this kingdom, and for providing necessary accommodations for the persons confined therein, and for the more effectual administration of justice at sessions of justices of the peace in cities and counties of cities within this kingdom. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Road from Kilkenny to Clonmel, and for relief of Richard Gore, Anne Gore and Henry Wallis | For continuing and amending an act entitled an act for the more effectually repairing and amending the road leading from the city of Kilkenny to the town of Clonmel, 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, administrators of William Gore, esquire, deceased, and of John Wallis, esquire, administrator, with the will annexed of Henry Wallis, esquire, deceased. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Continuing temporary statutes | For reviving, continuing and amending several temporary statutes. | 21 & 22 George III c.40 |
| 1781 | Road from Kilkenny to Clonmel | To continue and amend the acts now in force for making and repairing the roads leading from the city of Kilkenny to the town of Clonmel. | 21 & 22 George III c.64 |
| 1781 | Insolvent debtors | For the relief of insolvent persons under a certain description. | 21 & 22 George III c.59 |
| 1781 | Bread and other prices | For amending, altering and continuing an act entitled an act for regulating the price and assize of bread, and preventing frauds and impositions in the sale of flour, and other articles sold by weight or measure in the county of Dublin. | 21 & 22 George III c.29 |
| 1781 | Limiting placemen in parliament | For securing the freedom of parliament, by limiting the number of placemen to sit in the house of commons. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Excluding revenue officers from parliament | For better securing the freedom of election of members to serve in parliament by disabling certain officers employed in the collection or management of his majesty's revenues from giving their votes at such elections. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Marine forces regulation | For the regulation of his majesty's marine forces while on shore. | 21 & 22 George III c.44 |
| 1781 | Provision trade and combinations | To explain and amend an act made in the 19th and 20th years of his present majesty entitled an act for regulating the curing and preparing provisions, and for preventing combinations among the several tradesmen employed in making up such provisions, and for regulating the butter trade in the city of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned. | 21 & 22 George III c.22 |
| 1781 | Freeholders' registration | For the more effectual registering of freeholders. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | James Carrique Ponsonby | For vesting in trustees the settled estate of James Carrique Ponsonby, esquire, in the county of Limerick, and certain parts of his unsettled estate in the county of Kerry, in order to be sold or mortgaged for the payment of his debts, and for settling certain parts of the unsettled estate of the said James Carrique Ponsonby, in the said county of Kerry, in the place and stead of the said estate, so to be sold or mortgaged as aforesaid, and for other purposes. | 21 & 22 George III c.5 (private) |
| 1781 | Freeholders' registration | For the more effectually registering freeholders. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Bishops' leases | For the further and immediate improvement of this kingdom by enabling archbishops, bishops and other ecclesiastical persons and corporations to make leases for lives and years. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Relief of creditors of Broghill Newburgh and Henry Archdall | For the relief of the creditors of Broghill Newburgh and Henry Archdall. | 21 & 22 George III c.6 (private) |
| 1781 | Relief of Protestant Dissenters | For the relief of Protestant Dissenters in certain matters therein contained. | 21 & 22 George III c.25 |
| 1781 | Badging of poor | To explain and amend an act passed in the 11th and 12th years of his present majesty entitled an act for badging such poor as shall be found unable to support themselves by labour, and otherwise providing for and for restraining such as shall be found able to support themselves by labour or industry from begging. | 21 & 22 George III c.45 |
| 1781 | Poynings' law (‘Barry Yelverton’s act’) | To regulate the manner of passing bills, and to prevent delays in summoning of parliaments. | 21 & 22 George III c.47 |
| 1781 | Summary hearings for small debts | For amending the several acts made in this kingdom for recovery of small debts in a summary way before the judges of assize. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Barristers | To regulate the admissions of barristers-at-law. | 21 & 22 George III c.32 |
| 1781 | Poynings' law | For the better certifying bills into Great Britain. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Extension of English statutes | For extending certain of the provisions contained in an act entitled an act for confirming all the statutes made in England. | 21 & 22 George III c.48 |
| 1781 | Marriage of lunatics | To prevent the marriage of lunatics. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Mutiny | For punishing mutiny and desertion. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Recovery of secured debts | For making the recovery of debts secured by judgment, statute staple or recognizance more effectual. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Continuing temporary statutes, Dublin ballast office, Co. Waterford gaol and court house, churchwardens' accounts | For continuing several temporary statutes and for preventing of improper and unskilful persons being chosen into the management of the ballast office in the city of Dublin for appointing certain persons commissioners for carrying on the building of a gaol and court house for the county of Waterford and to oblige church wardens to account pursuant to an act for the better keeping churches in repair. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Retrenchment and reduction of useless offices | For the retrenchment of the national expenses, and for the reduction of useless offices, boards and sinecure places, pensions and additional salaries. | Not Enacted |
| 1781 | Escape of convicts | For the better preventing the escape of convicts and others out of the hands of justice. | Not Enacted |
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