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ssue forth this Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood-House, in Edinburgh, on Thursday the eighth day of July next, between the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon, to nominate and choose another Peer of Scotland, to sit and vote in the House of Peers of this present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of the said WilHam Marquis of Lothian, deceased, by open election and plurality of voices of the Peers that shall then be present, and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly signed before witnesses, and both constituent and proxy being qualified according to law), and the Lord Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby respectively required to attend such meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes; and immediately after such election made and duly examined, to certify the name of the Peer so elected, and sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers the electors, and return such certificate into the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain. And We strictly charge and command that this Proclamation be duly published at the Market-Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns in Scotland, twentyfive days, at least, before the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the said Peers to proceed on such election.

Given at Our Court at Carlton-House, the twenty-fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and in the fifth year of Our reign.

GOD save the KING.

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At the Court at Carlton-House, the 25th. ot

May 1824,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

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THIS day the Right Honourable Sir William Draper Best, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, was, by His Majesty's command, sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly.

At the Court at Carlton-House, the 25th of May 1824,

PRESENT,

The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act, passed in the fourth: year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled

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An Act to authorise His Majesty, under cer"tain circumstances, to regulate the duties and "drawbacks ou goods imported or exported in foreign vessels, and to exempt certain foreign « vessels from pilotage,' His Majesty is authorised, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases. in which British vessels, of less burthen than sixty.. tons, are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding; His Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in him by the said Act, and by

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and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this Order, all vessel's belonging to the inhabitants of Lubeck, and being of less burthen than sixty tons, which shall enter in or clear out from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, shall be, and they are hereby exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port, in all cases where British. vessels, being of less burthen than sixty tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

Jas, Buller

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LONDON GAZETTE of JUNE 1;.
1824.

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Westminster, May 28, 1824.

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THIS day, the Lords being met, a message sent to the Honourable House of Com-.. mons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorised by virtue of a Commission under the Great Seal, signed by His Majesty, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Com

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mission read; and the Commons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to

An Act for applying the surplus of the grants of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and the surplus of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twentyfour.

An Act to repeal certain duties on law proceedings in the Courts in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, and for better protecting the duties payable upon stamped vellum, parchment, or paper.

An Act for raising a further sum of money for carrying into execution an Act, passed in the fiftyninth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for repairing and improving or rebuilding the church at Barnsley, in the west riding of the county of York, and for improving and enlarging the church-yard and burial-grounds thereof," and for amending the

said Act.

An Act for taking down and rebuilding the body of the church or ancient parochial chapel of ease of Oldham, within the parish of Presturch-cumOldham, in the county palatine of Lancaster, for providing additional burial-ground, and for equalizing the church rates, and other purposes

An Act for widening, deepening, enlarging, and making navigable a certain creek, called Counter's Creek, from, or from near, Counter's-bridge, on the road from London to Hammersmith, to the River Thames, in the county of Middlesex, and for maintaining the same.

An Act for lighting, watching, paving, cleansing, and improving the streets,

highways, and

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places within the borough and town of Lancaster, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, regulating, and improving the borough of Evesham, in the county of Worcester; for repairing, improving, and maintaining the bridge over the River Avon, within the said borough; and for selling certain-waste lands within the said borough, and for appropriating the monies arising from such sales towards the purposes therein mentioned.

An Act for paving, lighting, watching, eleansing, widening, regulating, and otherwise improving the town of Walsall, and the neighbourhood thereof, within the parish of Walsall, in the county of Stafford.

An Act to amend an Act of His present Majesty for opening a street from the Cross of Glasgow to Monteith-row.

An Act for forming, paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating streets and other public passages and places on certain plots of ground, called Battle-Bridge-fields, near Gray's-Inn-lane, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex.

An Act to enable the Australian Company of Edinburgh to sue, and be sued, in the name of the Manager for the time being of the said Company.

An Act to regulate the loading of ships with coals, in the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

An Act for the better regulation and encouragement of pilots for the conducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port of Liverpool.

An Act to amend and enlarge the powers of several Acts, so far as the same relate to the right of voting at vestries of the parish of St. John, Southwark, in the county of Surrey, and to establish ́a șelect vestry within the said parish.

An Act for lighting with gas the towns or villages of Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs, and places adjacent, in the county of Kent,

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