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Agricultural and Rural Laws

These Acts of Parliament relate to the rural life and agricultural economy of the British nation. It includes legislation touching on the uses of agricultural products, duties and importation, distribution, etc., as well as relating to management of rural lands and resources. Agricultural products covered include grains, dairy, other produce, and products made thereof. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends ; from George III on they are by date of passage . Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green. Some subjects, though, attracted such extensive legislation that the numerous acts relating to them can be found on seperate pages. Select from the links below for laws concerning: Wool, Cotton, Fibers and Fabrics

For other related material contained within legislation filed elsewhere, see also: Commercial Laws

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
Select from below to view a particular era.

Commonwealth 1642-1660

Charles II 1660-1685

James II 1685-1689

William & Mary 1689-1702

Anne 1702-1714

George I 1714-1727

George II 1727-1760

George III 1760-1820

George IV 1820-1830

William IV 1830-1837

Victoria 1837-1901

The Interregnum
(Commonwealth and Protectorate)

• [8th September, p.59-64]. An Explanatory additional Act For the Sale of the remaining Fee-Farm Rents, And the finishing of the whole Affair. $175
• [4th November, p.175-177]. ... Concerning the Determination of several Claims Now depending before the Commissioners For Removing Obstructions. $135

Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 11, p.3-4]. ... for Taking away the Bounty-Money for Exporting Corn, from the Ninth Day of February, One thousand six hundred ninety nine, to the Nine and twentieth day of September, One thousand Seven hundred. $25

• [Anno 9&10, p.443-44]. ... to Repeal an Act ... Intituled, An Act to Restrain the Excess Making of Malt, and to Discharge and Vacate Orders made by Justices of the Peace by Virtue thereof, for Restraining Malsters ... $25

• [Anno 11&12, p.321-24]. ... for taking away the Duties upon the Wollen Manufactures, Corn, Grain, Bread Biscuit and Meal Exported. $25

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 9, p.531-33]. ... for making the Act ... for the better Presrvation of the Game, Perpetual, and for making the same more Effectual. $30

Reign of George I

• [Anno 5, p.287-90. ... for making more Effectual an Act ... for the more Effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-Stealers. $20
• [Anno 5, p.463-64]. ... for the further Punishment of such Persons as shall Unlawfully Kill or Destroy Deer in Parks, Paddocks, or other Inclosed Grounds [Transportation to America.]. $20

Reign of George II

• [Anno 2. p.351-63]. ... to ascertain the Custom payable for Corn and Grain imported; ... and for giving further time for Clerks and Apprentices ... Duties omitted to be paid for their Indentures and Contracts. $15

• [Anno 5, p.275-78]. ... amending and making more effectual an act ... for the Improvement of Tillage [i.e. corn and other grains]. $18

• [Anno 7, p.315-18]. ... preventing the clandestine Importation of foreign Hops ..., and to prevent the adulteration or sophistication of Hops, to alter the Colour or Scent ... $22

• [Anno 22, p.311-30]. ... for Draining and Preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds ... $28

• [Anno 24, p.867-68]. ... for the better Preservation of the Game in ... Scotland. $20
• [Anno 24, p.1127-31]. ... explaining, continuing, and enforcing several Laws ... to prevent the spreading of the Distemper which now rages amongst the Horned Cattle ... $30
• [Anno 24, p.1143-46]. ... for ascertaining the Admeasurement of Wheat, Meal, or other Corn or Grain ground ...; and for making Allowances to the East India Company, for their ... reduced Annuities. $22

• [Anno 24, p.335-36]. "... to explain and amend a Clause in ... An Act for the better Preservation of the Game ... selling or offering to Sale any Game. $15
• [Anno 24, p.423-26]. ... to continue several Laws relating to the Distemper now raging among the Horned Cattle ... $25

• [Anno 32, p.203-04]. ... for taking off the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn, Malt, Meal, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch. $18

• [Anno 33, p.135-36]. ... to continue ... the Prohibition of the Making of Low Wines and Spirits from Wheat, Barley, Malt, or any other Sort of Grain, or from Meal, Flour, or Bran. $15
• [Anno 33, p.139-40]. ... to continue ... the Importation of salted Beef, Pork, and Butter, from Ireland. $15
• [Anno 33, p.187-222]. ... for granting ... several Duties upon Malt; and for raising the Sum of Eight Millions by Way of Annuities and a Lottery ...; and to prevent the fraudulent obtaining of Allowances in the gauging of Corn making into Malt; and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer Bills, Tickets, Certificates, Receipts, Annuity Orders, and other Orders, lost, burnt or otherwise destroyed. $18
• [Anno 33, p.255-74]. ... for preventing the excessive Use of Spirituous Liquors, by laying additional Duties thereon; for shortening the Prohibition of making Low Wines and Spirits from Wheat, Barley, Malt, or other Grain, and from Meal, Flour, and Bran; for encouraging the exportation of British made Spirits; and for more effectual decuring the Duties payable upon Spirits, and preventing the fraudulent Relanding or Importation thereof. $25

Reign of George III

• [Anno 2, Cap.19]. ... for the better Preservation of the Game in ... England. $20

• [Anno 5, Cap.31]. ... to discontinue, for a limited Time, the Duties upon Wheat and Wheat Flour imported; and also the Bounty payable on the Exportation of Wheat and Wheat Flour. $20
• [Anno 5, Cap.32]. ... to enable His Majesty ... to prohibit the Exportation of Wheat, Wheaten meal, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch, during the next Recess of Parliament ... $20

• [Anno 10, Cap.1]. ... for continuing an Act ... to prohibit ... the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Malt, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch, and also the Extraction of Low Wines and Spirits from Wheat and Wheat Flour. $15
• [Anno 10, Cap.19]. ... for better Preservation of the Game, within ... England. $20
• [Anno 10, Cap 30]. ... rectifying a Mistake in ... An Act for better securing the Duties of Customs upon certain Goods removed from the Out Ports and other Places to London; for regulating the Fees of the Officers of His Majesty's Customs in the Province of Senegambia in Africa; for allowing to the Receivers General ... in Scotland, a proper Compensation for their Trouble and Expences; for the better Preservation of Hollies, Thorns and Quickets ... and of Trees and Underwoods in Forests and Chaces; and for authorising the Exportation of a limited Quantity of an inferior Sort of Barley, called Bigg, from the Port of Kirkwall in the Islands of Orkney. $15
• [Anno 10, Cap.39]. ... for registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported. $15
• [Anno 10, Cap.42]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments within the Time limited ...; for allowing further Time for registering and inrolling Agreements entered into for enclosing Commons, for the Purpose of planting and preserving Trees for Timber or Underwood; and for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Sollicitors. $18
• [Anno 10, Cap.45]. ... to prevet the further Spreading of the contagious Disorder among the Horned Cattle ... $30

• [Anno 11, Cap.1]. ... to continue the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Bread, Bisquit, and Starch; and also the Extraction of Low Wines and Spirits from Wheat and Wheat Flour ,,,; and also to prohibit the Exportation of Malt ... $18

• [Anno 12, Cap.1]. ... to continue and amend an Act ...to continue the Prohibition of the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Flour, Bread, Biscuit, and Starch; and also the Extraction of Low Wines and Spirits from Wheat ...; and also to prohibit the Exportation of Malt ... $18
• [Anno 12, Cap.2]. ... to continue for a further Time and Act ... for Importation of Salted Beef, Pork, Bacon, and Butter from Ireland ... [and] from the British Dominions in America, for a limited Time. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.33]. ... for allowing the Importation of Wheat, Wheat Flour, Rye, Rye Meal, and Indian Corn ... for a Limited time, Free of Duty. $18
• [Anno 12, Cap.71]. ... for repealing several Laws ... against Badgers, Engrossers, Forestallers, and Regrators, and for indemnifying Persons against Prosecutions for Offences committed against the said Acts. $15

• [Anno 13, Cap.60]. ... for draining and preserving certain Lands and Grounds in ... Tid Saint Giles and Newton, in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge; and in Tid Saint Mary's, in the County of Lincoln. (38 p.) $25

• [Anno 14, Cap 10]. ... for reducing the Duty payable upon the Exportation of Gum Senega ... from Africa to Great Britain ... $15

• [Anno 16, Cap.30]. ... more effectually to prevent the stealing of Deer ... $25

• [Anno 24, Cap.43]. ... for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Certificates issued with respect to the killing of Game. $20

• [Anno 31, Cap.21]. ... for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty on Certificates issued with respect to the killing of Game. $15

• [Anno 36, Cap.39]. ... to amend an Act ... for the better Preservation of the Game in ... England. $15

• [Anno 36, Cap.54]. ... to amend an Act ... for the more effectual Preservation of the Game in ... Scotland ... $15

• [Anno 39, Cap.34]. ... for repealing Two Acts ... which limit the Time for killing Partridges in England and Scotland; and for amending ... as Act ... as relates to such Limitation within ... England ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 25]. ... to prohibit ... the Use of Wheat in Making Starch. $15

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 29]. ...for granting Bounties on the Importation of Wheat, Wheaten Flour, and Rice ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 35]. ... granting a Bounty on Importation of Oats ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 48]. ... repeal Duties on Sugar and Coffee exported ... $15

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 53]. ... for granting a Bounty on the Importation of Rye ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 58]. ... enbling His Majesty to prohibit the Exportation and permit the Importation of Corn ... $15
• [Anno 39&40, Cap 64]. ... permitting the free Importation of Linseed Cakes and Rape Cakes in Neutral Ships. $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 82]. ... suspending ... the Duties on Foreign Hops ... $12
• [Anno 39&40, Cap 91]. ... to prohibit ... the Exportation of Rice. $12
• [Anno 39&40, Cap 97]. ... to incorporate ... The London Company for the Manufacture of Flour, Meal and Bread ... $20

• [Anno 41, Cap 1] ...to prohibit ... the Exportation of Rice ... $12
• [Anno 41, Cap 2]. ... to authorize His Majesty ... to prohibit the Exporation of Provisions or Food $15

• [Anno 41, Cap 4]. ... suspending ... the Duties on Hops imported ... $12

• [Anno 42, Cap.107]. ... more effectually to prevent the stealing of Deer. $15

• [Anno 43, Cap.23]. ... granting to His Majesty certain Duties upon Certificates with respect to the killing of Game in Ireland. [Dampstain] $12

• [Anno 43, Cap.112]. ... for the better Preservation of Heath Fowl, commonly called Black Game, in the New Forest, in the County of Southampton. $12

• [Anno 48, Cap.93]. ... to repeal so much of an Act ... as relates to the Penalties on Shooting at Hares; and also to repeal an Act ... relating to Gamekeepers. $12
• [Anno 48, Cap.94]. ... for repealing so much of an Act made in the Parliament of Scotland ... of Queen Anne ... as relates to the Shooting of Hares. $12

• [Anno 48, Cap.134]. ... to amend the Laws relating to the marking of Bags and Pockets of Hops. $15

• [Anno 53, Cap.46]. ... for te further Regulation of the Butter Trade of Ireland. $15

• [Anno 54, Cap.141]. ... to alter so much of an Act ... as relates to the Duties payable in respect of killing of Game. $12

• [Anno 55, Cap 181]. ... charging an additional Duty on certain Seeds imported. $12

• [Anno 56, Cap 25]. ... charging certain Duties on the Importation of Butter. $15
• [Anno 56, Cap 26]. ... charging certain Duties on the Importation of Cheese. $15

• [Anno 56, Cap 37]. ... to permit the Importation of Prunes the Produce of Germany. $12

• [Anno 57, Cap.90]. ... for the Prevention of Persons going armed by Night for the Destruction of Game; and for repealing an Act ... relating to Rogues and Vagabonds. $15

• [Anno 58, Cap.75]. ... for the more effectual Prevention of Offences connected with the unlawful Destruction and Sale of Game. $12

• [Anno 59, Cap.102]. ... for further regulating the Appointment of Gamekeepers in Wales. $18

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 7&8, Cap.49]. ... to exempt Persons who have procured Game Certificates in Great Britain from Duty on Game Certificates in Ireland, and to authorize Persons who have paid Duty ... in Ireland to kill Game in Great Britain ... $18

• [Anno 9, Cap.41*]. ... for removing the present Cattle Market now held in Saint Thomas Street in ... Bristol, for providing a better and more convenient Market instead thereof, and for rebuilding and enlarging the Wool Hall in Saint Thomas Street. (50 pp.) $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 9, Cap.69]. ... for the more effectual Prevention of Persons going armed by Night for the Destruction of Game. $20

Reign of William IV

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.32]. ... to amend the Laws in England relative to Game. $30

• [Anno 2&3, Cap.68]. ... for the more effectual Prevention of Trespasses ... in pursuit of Game in ... Scotland. $20

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 2&3, Cap.35]. ... to continue ... Compositions for Assessed Taxes, and to alter the Period for the Expiration of Game Certificates, and for granting Licences to deal in Game. $12

• [Anno 5&6, Cap.81]. ... to transfer to Collection and Management of the Duties on Certificates to kill Game in Ireland to the Commissioners of Excise. $12

• [Anno 7&9, Cap.29]. ... to extend an Act ... for the more effectual Prevention of Persons going armed by Night for the Destruction of Game. $10

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.56]. ... to alter and amend an ... Act to enable the Owners of Settled Estates to defray the Expenses of draining the same by way of Mortgage. $10

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.99]. ... to amend an Act ... relating to the Management and Improvement of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases; and for other Purposes relating to the said Land Revenue. $15
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.103]. ... to continue ... and to amend, an Act ... for permitting Wheat to be delivered from the Warehouse or the Vessel Duty-free, upon the previous substitution of ... Flour or Biscuit ... $8

• [Anno 11&12, Cap.29]. ... to enable Persons having a Right to kill Hares in England and Wales to do so ... without being required to take out a Game Certificate. $10
• [Anno 11&12, Cap.30]. ... to enable Persons having at present a Right to kill Hares in Scotland to do so ... without being required to take out a Game Certificate. $10

• [Anno 12, Cap.23]. ... to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property, and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of Public Utility, in Ireland. $10

• [Anno 12&13, Cap.57]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosures Commissioners for England and Wales. $10

• [Anno 14, Cap.2]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of the Sixth Annual Report of the Inclosure Commission. $12

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.20]. ... to extend the Remedies provided by the Renewable Leasehold Conversion Act, for the recovery of Fee-farm Rents ... to all other Fee-farm Rents, and to other Rents in Ireland reserved upon Grants of Land in which the Grantors have no Reversion. $8

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.25]. ... to improve the Law of Landlord and Tenant in relation to Emblements, to growing Crops seized in Execution, and to Agricultural Tenants Fixtures. $10

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.42]. ... to make better Provision for the Management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ..., and for the Direction of Public Works and Buildings. $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.43]. ... for disafforesting the Forest of Hainault in the County of Essex. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.50]. ... to amend the Public Health Act, and an Act ... in respect of the Assessment of Tithe and Tithe Rentcharges for certain Rates. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.53]. ... to consolidate and continue the Copyhold and Inclosure Commissions, and to provide for the Completion of Proceedings under the Tithe Commutations Acts. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.54]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.61]. ...providing a Metropolitan Market ... in lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfields. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.76]. ... to extinguish the Right of the Crown to Deer in the New Forest, and to give Compensation ...; and for other Purposes relating to the said Forest. $20

• [Anno 17, Cap.9]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. $12

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.48]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners ... $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.49]. ... for the Settlement of Claims upon and over the New Forest. $20

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.60]. ... to amend an Act ... for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. $12
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.67]. ... to facilitate the Purchase of Common, Commonable, and other Rights by the Principal Officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance. $12

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.91]. ... for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland. (22 p.) $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.97]. ... to amend and extend the Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land. $15

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.61]. ... to authorize the Inclosure of certain Lands in pursuance of a Special Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales. $10

• [Anno 23&24, Cap.90]. ... to repeal the Duties on Game Certificates and Certificates to deal in Game, and to impose in lieu thereof Duties on Excise Licences and Certificates ... $10

• [Anno 26, Cap.19]. ... to amend the Law relative to the Sale of Hares in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 29, Cap.37]. ... to amend an Act ... to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops. $22

• [Anno 38, Cap.1*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under "The Land Drainage Act, 1861," relating to Lay Improvement, situated in ... Westbury-on Severn, Churcham, and Minsterworth, in ... Gloucester. $8
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 45&46, Cap.67*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Act, 1861, relating to Fensanton Improvements ... [in] Huntingdon. $8
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 52&53, Cap.47*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under the Land Drainage Act, 1861, relating to Goole Fields Improvements, ... in the Parish of Snaith in the county of York. $10
  * Local and Personal Act

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