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Irish Laws

These Acts of Parliament relate to Ireland, her people, and her governance. 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.

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 10&11, p.227-44]. ... to prevent the Exportation of Wooll out of the Kingdoms of Ireland and England into Foreign parts; And for the Encouragement of the Woollen Manufactures ... $45

• [Anno 11&12, p.7-162]. ... Granting an Aid to His Majesty, by Sale of the Forfeited and other Estates and Interests in Ireland; and by a Land Tax in England ... $55

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 1, p.365-68]. ... for Explanation of a Clause in One Act ... relating to Borelaps, and to take off the Additional Subsidy upon Irish Linen (lacks title page). $20
• [Anno 1, p.523-55]. ... for Punishing Officers or Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert ... in England or Ireland, and for Punishing False Musters, and for better Payment of Quarters in England. $35

Reign of George II

• [Anno 23, p.567-68]. ... certain Duties upon such Species of Sail Cloth ... which shall be imported from Ireland ... $15

• [Anno 26, p.243-44]. ... for permitting the Exportation of Wooll, and Woollen or Bay Yarn, from any Port in Ireland ... $18

• [Anno 33, p.139-40]. ... to continue ... the Importation of salted Beef, Pork, and Butter, from Ireland. $15

Reign of George III

• [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.55]. ... for preventing Frauds and Abuses, in relation to the Trade carried on between Great Britain and Ireland. $us

• [Anno 41, Cap.47]. ... to amend and continue ... an Act passed in Ireland ... for regulating the Trade of a Distiller, and for securing the Duties payable on Home-made Spirits. $15

• [Anno 42, Cap.75]. ... for the better Regulation of the Linen Manufacture in Ireland. $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 45, Cap.59]. ... amending an Act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland ..., for regulating the Election of Members ..., so far as relates to Freeholds under the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds ... $25

• [Anno 50, Cap.101]. ... confirming an Agreement for the Purchase of the Prisage and Butlerage of Wines in Ireland, entered into by ... Walter Earl of Ormonde and Ossory ... $12

• [Anno 51, Cap.51]. ... abolishing the Duties if Prizage and Butlerage of Wines in Ireland. $12

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

• [Anno 53, Cap 120]. ... to enable the Lords of the Treasury of Ireland to issue ... for the Reduction of the National Debt, a Sum equal to One per Centum on the Amount of Treasury Bills outstanding ... $12

• [Anno 54, Cap 81]. ... for granting certain Rates and Duties, ... Drawbacks and Bounties on Goods, Wares and Merchandize imported into and exported from Ireland ... (20 pp.) $15

• [Anno 55, Cap.110]. ... for charging certain Duties on Sweets or Made Wines in Ireland ... $12

• [Anno 57, Cap.72]. ... to continue ... Two Acts ... regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally. $12

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 3, Cap.54]. ... to repeal the Rates, Duties, and Taxes payable in respect of Fire Hearths and Windows in Ireland; and to exempt certain Persons from the Tax on Dogs. $12

• [Anno 5, Cap.55]. ... to assimilate the Duties and Drawbacks on Hides, Skins, Leather, Parchment, Paper, and Paper Hangings, manufactured in Ireland, to ... like Articles in Great Britain; and to equalize the Measures and Weights whereby the Duties of Excise and Customs shall be payable ... $20

• [Anno 6, Cap.35]. ... to render more effectual the several Acts for authorizing Advances for carrying on Public Works, so far as relates to Ireland. $10
• [Anno 6, Cap.37]. ... to provide for the future Assimilation of the Duties and Excise upon Sweets or Made Wines, upon Mead and Metheglin, upon Vinegar, and upon Cyder and Perry, in Great Britain and Ireland ... $15

• [Anno 7&8, Cap.49]. ... to exmpt 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 10, Cap.109*]. ... to explain the Acts for making the Ulster Canal in the Counties of Fermanagh and Armagh. $12
  * Local and Personal Act

Reign of William IV

• [Anno 6&7, Cap.38]. ... to amend and Act ... to amend the Laws relaing to Excise Licences, and to the Sale of Wine, Spirits, Beer, and Cider by Retail in Ireland. $18

Reign of Victoria

• [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 8&9, Cap.80]. ... for regulating the Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers as to certain Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.81]. ... to amend an Act ... for the Regulation of Grand Jury Presentments in the County of Dublin. $12

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.79]. ... to continue ... an Act ... for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. $8

• [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.56]. ... to continue ... as Act ... for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.15]. ... to amend the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act, 1850. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.17]. ... further to explain and amend an Act for the regulation of Process and Practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.18]. ... to continue the Stamp Duties ... in Great Britain and Ireland, and to make Regulations for collecting and managing the same. $8
• [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.21]. ... to amend an Act ... to amend an Act ... for empowering Grand Juries in Ireland to present Bridges, and Tolls to be paid for passing the same ... $10

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.35]. ... to extend the Benefits of ... the General Merchant Seamen's Act relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service to Apprentices bound to the Sea Services by Boards of Guardians of the Poor in Ireland, and to enable such Guardians to place out Boys in the Naval Service. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.44]. ... to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.51]. ... to authorize a further Period of Application of Money for the Purposes of Loans for carrying on Public Works in Ireland. $12
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.57]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Civil Bills and the Courts of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, and to transfer to the Assistant Barristers certain Jurisdiction as to Insolvent Debtors. (112 p.) $40

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.65]. ... to continue certain temporary Provisions relating to the Collection of Grand Jury Cess in Ireland; and also to provide for the due Annexation of an issolated District, formerly of the County of Dublin, to a Barony of the County of Wicklow, for the Purposes of Grand Jury Cess ... $12
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.68]. ... to provide for the better Distribution, Support, and Management of Medical Charities in Ireland; and to amend an Act ... to provide for the ... Relief of the Poor in Ireland. (30 p.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.71]. ... to repeal certain Statutes relating to the Irish Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.72]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Erection and Endowment of Churches and Chapels and Perpetual Curacies in Ireland. (26 p.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.73]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Ecclesiastical Residences in Ireland. (46 p.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.74]. ... to amend an Act ... relating to Poor Rate Poundage and the Valuation of Ecclesiastical Property in Ireland; and to provide for the Renewal of Leases of Lands disappropriated from Bishoprics. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.85]. ... to further amend an Act ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.90]. ... for the better Collection of Fines, Penalties, Issues, Amerciaments, and forfeited Recognizances in Ireland. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.92]. ... to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to certain Offences and other Matters as to which Justices of the Peace exercise Summary Jurisdiction in Ireland. (40 p.) $25
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.93]. ... to consolidate and amend the Acts regulating the Proceedings at Petty Sessions, and the Duties of Justices of the Peace out of Quarter Sessions, in Ireland. (54 p.) $25

• [Anno 15&16, Cap.66]. ... to continue an Act ... for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. $10
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.67]. ... to continue the Powers of applying for a Sale of Lands under the Act for facilitating the Sale and Transfer of Incumbered Estates in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 17, Cap.1]. ... to explain and amend an Act ... relating to the duties of Assesed Taxes; and to authorize Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oaths requires in Matters relating to Income Tax. (With title page.) $8

• [Anno 17, Cap.8]. ... further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 17, Cap.11]. ... to amend the Laws relating to Ministers Money, and the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act. $15

• [Anno 17, Cap.17]. ... to make further Provision, for defining the Boundaries of Counties, Baronies, Half Baronies, Parishes, Town Lands, and other Divisions and Denominations of Lands in Ireland for public Purposes. $15

• [Anno 17, Cap.22]. ... to enable thte Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay ... for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey ..., and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over said River. $15

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.34]. ... to enable the Courts of Law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to issue Process to comple the Attendance of Witnesses out of their Jurisdiction ... $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.42]. ... to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.45]. ... to amend the Dublin Carriage Act, 1853. $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.46]. ... to continue certain Acts relating to Linen, Hempen, and other Manufactures in Ireland. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.50]. ... to continue an Act ... for amending the Laws relating to Savings Banks in Ireland, and to authorize Friendly Societies to invest their Funds in Savings Banks. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.55]. ... for the Registration of Bills of Sale in Ireland. $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.63]. ... to continue the Poor Law Commission for Ireland. $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.64]. ... to amend an Act ... for extending the Public Libraries Act, 1850, to Ireland and Scotland. $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.68]. ... to provide for the Application of certain Stock purchased with Monies ... from the Sale of Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland. $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.76]. ... for the Formation, regulation, and Government of Convict Prisons in Ireland. $30

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.89]. ... to amend the Laws for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons, and for the Suppression of illicit Distillation, in Ireland. $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.92]. ... to continue an Act ... for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.99]. ... to provide for the Establishment of a National Gallery of Paintings, Sculpture, and the Fine Arts, for the Care of a Public Library, and the Erection of a Public Museum, in Dublin. $25
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.103]. ... to make better Provision for the paving, lighting, draining, cleansing, suppling with Water, and Regulation of Towns in Ireland. (52 p.) $40

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.107]. ... for amending the Laws relating to the Militia, and raising a Volunteer Militia Force in Ireland. $25
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.110]. ... to provide for the Repayment of Monies advanced from the Exchequer to the County of Mayo for public Purposes. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.124]. ... to settle the Contribution to be made by certain Baronies in Roscommon and Galway and the County and Town of Galway to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland. $18

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.59]. ... to facilitate Inquiries of Commissioners of Endowed Schools in Ireland. $15
• [Anno 18&19, Cap.62]. ... to amend an Act ... to amend the Laws for the better Prevention of the Sale of Spirits by unlicensed Persons and for the Suppression of illicit Distillation in Ireland. $12
• [Anno 18&19, Cap.65]. ... to amend the Dublin Carriage Acts. $8

• [Anno 19&20, Cap.46*]. ... to discontinue the taking of Toll on the Turnpike Roads leading from the Town of Antrim toward Coleraine, and to provide for the future Maintenance ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 20&21, Cap.97*]. ... to repeal "The River Slaney Improvement Act, 1852," and to make better Provision for the Execution of the Objects of that Act ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.29]. ... to authorize the Removal of the Infirmary for the County of Cork from the Town of Mallow to the City of Cork. $15

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.59]. ... to facilitate Proceedings before Justices under the Acts relating to Vaccination. $15

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

• [Anno 30&31, Cap.104]. ... to amend and extend as to Railways in Ireland the Provisions of an Act ... to attach certain Conditions to the Construction of future Railways ... $18

• [Anno 40&41, Cap.127*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under The Local Government Act, 1858, and The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, relating to Dungannon. $8
  * Local and Personal Act

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