land, who have not signified their assents under the Acts passed in this session, for transferring such Annuities into Reduced Annuities of Three Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum.

An Act to permit the mutual transfer of capital, in certain public stock or funds, transferable at the Banks of England and Ireland respectively.

An Act to alter the laws relating to the duties on the importation and the prohibitions on the exportation of wool and of hare and coney skins.

An Act to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to sell out certain Bank Annuities now standing in their names, and to apply the pro-duce thereof in part payment of a loan of three hundred thousand pounds due to the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, and to facilitate the sales of fee farm rents and of small portious of the land revenue of the Crown, and for other purposes.. An Act for enabiing the Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's Navy to purchase certain premises for completing a Victualling Establishment at Cremill Point, near Plymouth, in the county of Devon, and for supplying the said Establishment with water.

An Act to amend so much of an Act, of the forty-second year of His late Majesty, for making, additional basons or docks at Kingston-upon-Hull, as relates to certain lands belonging to His Majesty.

An Act to repeal several laws relating to the fisheries carried on upon the banks and shores of Newfoundland, and to make provision for the better conduct of the said fisheries for five years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Parliament.

An Act for amending an Act, passed in the fiftythird year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act to alter and amend two Acts, of the thirty-first year of the reign. of King George the Second and the thirteenth year

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of His present Majesty, so far as relates to the price and assize of bread to be sold out of the city of London and the liberties thereof, and beyond the weekly bills of mortality and ten miles of the Royal Exchange.

An Act to continue, until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, the low duties on coals and culm carried coastwise to any port within the principality of Wales.

An Act for taking down Burrow-bridge, over the River Parrett, in the county of Somerset, and erecting another in lieu thereof.

An Act for maintaining the harbour of the burgh of Dingwall, and regulating the police of the said burgh.

An Act for establishing a ferry over the River Arun, at Littlehampton, in the county of Sussex, and making roads to communicate therewith.

An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and improving the township of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, and for regulating the police thereof.

An Act for explaining, amending, and rendering. more effectual an Act of His late Majesty, for improving the outfall of the River Welland, in the county of Lincoln.

An Act for repairing, widening, improving, and maintaining in repair the first district of turnpike roads leading to and from the town of Bridport, in the county of Dorset.

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving certain roads leading to, through, and from the towns of Langport, Somerton, and Castle Cary, in the county of Somerset, and for making and improving other roads in the said county.

An Act for repairing certain roads between Stokenchurch and the borough of New Woodstock, in the county of Oxford, and several other roads communicating therewith.

An Act for more effectually repairing the road

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from Piffs Elms, in the parish of Boddington, through Cheltenham to Shipton-lane, near Frog Mill Inn, and certain other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Gloucester.

An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the county of Leicester, through Burton-upon-Trent, in the county of Stafford, to Tutbury, in the said county of Stafford.

An Act for repairing the road from the city of Durham to Tyne bridge, and for making and maintaining a collateral branch and certain other branches to communicate respectively with certain parts of the said road, in the parishes of Chesterle-street and Gateshead, all in the county of Durham.

An Act for enlarging the term and powers of several Acts passed for repairing the road from Halifax to Sheffield, in the west riding of the county of York, so far as relates to the first district of the roads mentioned in the said Acts.

An Act for making, repairing, and improving several roads in the counties of Radnor, Hereford, and Merioneth.

An Act for improving and more effectually repairing the roads from the town of Bolton-in-theMoors to Nightingales, in the township of HeathCharnock, and for making a branch road from Little Bolton to or near the Crown in Honirch, and for enabling the trustees therein named, together with the trustees north and south of Yarrow, and the trustees of the road from Westhoughton to Duxbury-Stocks, to make a new line of road from Hole-House-Brow, in the said township, to the town of Chorley, and a branch road from Rawlinson-Bridge to Halliwell-Field, in the same township, and another branch road in the township of Duxbury, all in the county palatine of Lancaster. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike

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road from Godley-Lane-Head, near Halifax, to Northowran-Green, in the West Riding of the county of York.

An Act for making and maintaining a road from the city of Glasgow to the village of Parkhead. And five private Acts.

Westminster, June 4, 1824.

THIS day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons 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 Commission 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 to repeal the duties on licences to brew and to retail beer, spirituous liquors, and foreign wine, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof, and amend the laws of excise relating to such duties, and to brewers and retailers of beer.

An Act to provide for the paving, gravelling, lighting, and watching, certain footways and carriageways in and near Brompton-square, in the parish of Saint Mary-Abbotts, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, and to provide for the maintenance of a garden and shrubbery in the said -square. 1824.

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An Act for erecting new market places within the town of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, and for the better regulating and maintaining the said markets.

An Act for lighting with gas the town and neighbourhood of Leeds, with the parish of Leeds, in the west riding of the county of York.

An Act for more effectually making and repairing the road from the city of Glasgow to YokerBridge, and certain roads communicating therewith.

Whitehall, June 8, 1824.

The King has been pleased to order a congé d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Chester to elect a Bishop of that See, the same being void by the translation of the Right Reverend Father in God George Henry, late Bishop thereof, to the See of Bath and Wells; and His Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter, the Reverend Charles James Blomfield, Doctor in Divinity, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See of Chester.

Whitehall, June 5, 1824.

The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Sir George Nayler, Garter Principal King of Arms, and Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, His royal licence and permission that he may, in compliance with the earnest desire expressed by His Most Faithful Majesty John the Sixth, King of Portugal, accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal

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