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These Acts of Parliament relate to society as a whole, and to the state's relationship to those it governs. Ranging from poor laws to criminal codes, and from entailed estates to non-conformist religions, social laws affect all aspects of life and of society. 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: Crime and Criminality Papists and Non-Conformists

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The Interregnum
(Commonwealth and Protectorate)

• [5th October, p.131-151]. ... for the Relief of Creditors and Poor Prisoners. $150
• [4th November, p.171-173]. ... For Repealing of a Branch of ... An Act for Subscribing the Engagement. $125
• [4th November, p.175-177]. ... Concerning the Determination of several Claims Now depending before the Commissioners For Removing Obstructions. $135

Reign of Charles II

• [Anno 12*, p.95-106]. ... for Confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals. $75

* Dated from the death of Charles I

Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 4, p.203-04]. ... that the Inhabitants of ... York may dispose of their Personal estates by their Wills, notwithstanding the Custom of that Province. (Lacks title page.) $30

• [Anno 6&7, p.243-30]. ... for Enabling such Persons as have Estates for Life in Annuities ... to Purchase and Obtain further or more Certain Interests ... for Admitting other Persons to Purchase or Obtain the same, for Raising Moneys for Carrying on the War Against France. $30

• [Anno 11&12, p.301-03]. ... to prevent Disputes that may arise by Officers and Members of Corporations, having neglected to Sign the Association, and Taking the Oaths in due time. $30

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 1, p.435-40]. ... for Continuing former Acts for Exporting Leather, and for Ease of Jurors, and for Reviving and Making more Effectual an Act relating to Vagrants. $25

• [Anno 2, p.127-28]. ... to Repeal a Proviso in an Act ... which prevents the Citizens of the City of York from Disposing of their Personal Estates by their Wills, as others Inhabiting within the Province of York by that Act may do (lacks title page). $20

Reign of George I

• [Anno 10, p.139-56]. ... For Explaining and Ammending ... An Act to oblige all ... Papists ... refusing or neglecting to take the Oaths appointed ... to Register their Names and Real Estates, and for enlarging the Time for ... Oaths, and ... Registers, and ... Enrolment of Deeds and Wills made by Papists ...; also for giving Relief to Protestant Lessees. $35

• [Anno 13, p.743-48]. ... allowing further time to Persons on board the Fleet ... to qualify themselves for the Legal Enjoyment of Offices and Employments ... $20

Reign of George II

• [Anno 1, p.659-66]. ... for indemnifying Persons, who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Imployments ... $15

• [Anno 2, p.383-407]. ... for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. $20
• [Anno 2, p.415-26]. ... for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. $22
• [Anno 2, p.515-22]. ... for indemnifying Persons, who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices or Imployments ... $15

• [Anno 3, p.551-55]. ... explaining and amending ... An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons. $18
• [Anno 3, p.567-75]. ... continuing and amending and Act for regulating the Price and Assize of Bread; for Relief of Bankrupts .. for allowing further Time for Inrollment of Deeds or Wills made by Papists ... $18

• [Anno 4, p.411-415]. ... indemnify persons, who ... have ommitted to qualify themselves for Imployments or Offices ... $15
• [Anno 4, p.475-76]. ... enable Ideots and Lunaticks, who are seized or possessed of Estates ... to make Conveyances, Surrenders, or Assignments of such Estates. $20
• [Anno 4, p.643-48]. ... preventing frauds committed by Tenants, and for the more easy Recovery of Rents, and Renewal of Leases. $18

• [Anno 5, p. 495-510]. ... appointing Commissioners for ... determining all the Claims and Demands of the Creditors of The Charitable Corporation for Relief of Industrious Poor ... under the respective Commissions of Bankruptcy ... $18

• [Anno 6, p.575-95]. ... for appointing Commissioners to examine ... the Charitable Corporation ... and for enforcing the Laws made against foreign Lotteries ... $20
• [Anno 6, p.599-600]. ... making effectual such Agreements ... between the Charitable Corporation for Relief of the Industrious Poor ... and their Creditors. $15

• [Anno 7, p.227-59]. ... Disposal of the Residue of the Money raised by way of Lottery ... for the Relief of such Sufferers in the Charitable Corporation, as are Objects of Compassion ... $18

• [Anno 8, p.259-61]. ... to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Imployments within the Time limited by Law ... $15

• [Anno 9, p.535-38]. ... restrain the Dispositions of Lands, whereby the same become unalienable. $15

• [Anno 18, p.387-90]. ... to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments ... $15
• [Anno 18, p.747-58]. ... for rendering more effectual the several acts for the erecting of Hospitals and Workhouses within ... Bristol ... $20

• [Anno 19, p.515-16]. ... amending the Laws relating to Bankrupts. $15
• [Anno 19, p.519-22]. ... to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices, Employments, and Promotions ... $15

• [Anno 22, p.3-62]. ... vesting the several Estates of James late Earl of Derwentwater, and Charles Radcliffe, deceased ... for the Benefit of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich ... (lacks cover). $25

• [Anno 28, p.3-6]. ... for the Relief of the Out-Pensioners of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. $20
• [Anno 28, p.47-50]. ... to indemnify Members of Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, who have neglected to take the Oaths of Office ... $15
• [Anno 28, p.339-66]. ... for Relief of Insolvent Debtors. $25
• [Anno 28, p.491-94]. ... to indemnify persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Promotions ... $15

• [Anno 31, p.619-22]. ... to enforce and render more effectual ... An Act for annexing certain forfeited Estates in Scotland to the Crown unalienably ...; and to establish a Method of managing the same, and applying the Rents and Profits thereof, for the better civilizing of the Highlands ... $20

• [Anno 32, p.195-98]. ... to indemnify Persons who have omitted to Qualify themselves for Offices and Employments within the Time limited by Law; and for allowing further Time for that Purpose. $15
• [Anno 32, p.291-98]. ... for the more regular and easy collecting, accounting for, and paying, of Post Fines ...; and for the ease of Sheriffs in respect to the same. $22
• [Anno 32, p.423-51]. ... for Relief of Debtors with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons; and to oblige Debtors, who shall continue in Execution in Prison beyond a certain Time, and for Sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the Act, to make Discovery of, and deliver upon Oath, their Estates for their Creditors Benefit. $35

• [Anno 33, p.363-71]. ... for the more effectual securing the Payment of such Prize and Bounty Monies as were appropriated to the Use of Greenwich Hospital by ... An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and the speedy and effetual Manning His Majesty's Navy. $30
• [Anno 33, p.479-82]. ... to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to indemnify Justices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, Oficers of the Militia, and others, who have ommitted to register or to deliver in their Qualifications within the Time limited ... $15

Reign of George III

• [Anno 2, Cap.17]. ... for Relief of the Vassals of the several Estates which are or may be annexed to the Crown ...; and for enforcing and carrying into Execution so much of an Act ... as relates to the paying and discharging the Wadsetts affecting the Estate of Lovat. $20
• [Anno 2, Cap.23]. ... to indemnify such as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to indemnify Justices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers of the Militia, who have omitted to register or deliver in their Qualifications within the Time limited by Law ...; and for the making and filing of Affidavits of Articles of Clerkship. $15

• [Anno 3, Cap.16]. ... to impower the Commissioners or Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich ... to provide for such Seamen worn out and become decrepit ..., who shall not be provided for within said Hospital; and to enable them to receive such Pensions as shall be granted them ...; and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending the same. $25

• [Anno 5, Cap.40]. ... for granting ... a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund ... for the Service of the Year ...; for further appropriating the Supplies granted in the Session ...; for allowing the Receivers General of the Duties on Offices and Employments in Scotland a Reward for their Trouble; and for allowing further Time to ... make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies ad Sollicitors. $20

• [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 12, Cap.23]. ... for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors and for indemnifying the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison from Prosecutions at Law, for certain Escapes from the said Prison. (46 p.) $25
• [Anno 12, Cap.31]. ... to indemnify such Persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments; and to indemnify Justices of the Peace ... who have omitted to register or deliver in their Qulaifications within the Time limited by Law ...; and to indemnify Members and Officers, in Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, whose Admissions have been omitted to be stamped according to Law, or ... lost or mislaid ..., and to ... make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors. $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.34]. ... to amend an Act ... for building a Workhouse in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the City of Westminster ... $15
• [Anno 12, Cap.72]. ... for rendering the Payment of the Creditors of Insolvent Debtors more equal and expeditious, and for regulating the Diligence of the Law by Arrestment and Poinding, and for extending the Privilege of Bills to Promisory Notes, and for limiting Actions upon Bills and Promisory Notes, in ... Scotland. $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.73]. ... for the better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls within the Cities of London and Westminster ... and other Parishes, Precincts, and Places in the Weekly Bills of Mortality, ... Saint Mary-le-Bon and Paddington, Saint Pancras, and Saint Luke at Chelsea ...; and for the better preventing of Mischiefs by Fire within the said ..., and for the amending and reducing the Laws relating thereto into One Act ... (49 p.) $25

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 19]. ... to indemnify such Persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap.40]. ... to enlarge the Powers of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor within the several Hundreds, Towns , and Districts, in ... England, incorporated by divers Acts ..., for the Purpose of the better Maintainance and Employment of the Poor, as to the Assessments to be made upon the several Parishes, Hamlets, and Places ... $12

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 56]. ... Relief of Persons entitled to entailed Estates to be purchased with Trust Monies. $15

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 96]. ... relating to Duties on Income ... under the Amount of Twenty Pounds. $12
• [Anno 39&40, Cap 98]. ... to restrain all Trusts and Directions in Deeds or Wills, whereby the Profits or Produce of Real or Personal Estate shall be accumulated ... $15

• [Anno 49, Cap.125]. ... to amend an Act ... for the Encouragement and Relief of Friendly Societies. $20

• [Anno 55, Cap 17]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments ... and to permit such persons ... as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file same ... $12

• [Anno 56, Cap 33]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments ... and to permit such persons ... as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors to make and file same ... $12

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 3, Cap.12]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes ...; and to permit such Persons ... as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution or Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors ... although the Persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their Annual Certificates. $15

• [Anno 3, Cap.39]. ... for preventing Frauds upon Creditors, by secret Warrants of Attorney to confess Judgement. $12

• [Anno 9, Cap.20*]. ... for enabling the Committee or Committees of the Estate of Elizabeth Russ, a Lunatic, to sell Estates in ... Clifton in the County of Gloucester, and in ... Saint Philip and Jacob in the City of Bristol. $20
  * Private Act

• [Anno 10, Cap.51]. ... to amend the Law relating to the Employment of Children in Cotton Mills and Factories. $15
• [Anno 10, Cap.56]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies (20 pp.). $25

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 1, Cap.16]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes ...; and for the Relief of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors in certain Cases. $10

• [Anno 1, Cap.25]. ... to explain and amend an Act ... for extending the Period of Repayment of Loans made under an Act ... for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales. $8

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.64]. ... to facilitate the Merger of Tithes in Land. $12
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.69]. ... to remove Doubts respecting Conveyances of Estates vested in Heirs and Devisees of Mortgages. $12
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.70]. ... to extend the Powers of an Act ... in relation to granting Tacks and making Excambions by Heirs of Entail. $10

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.73]. ... to continue for Three Years ... Two Acts relating to the Care and Treatment of Insane Persons in England. $8
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.74]. ... to facilitate the Recovery of Possession of Tenements after due Determination of the Tenancy. $15
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.87]. ... to facilitate the Foundation and Endowment of additional Schools in Scotland. $12

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.88]. ... to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor ... $12
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.105]. ... to remove Doubts as to the Validity of certain Oaths. $8

• [Anno 6&7, Cap.36]. ... to exempt from County, Borough, Parochial, and other local Rates, Land and Buildings occupied by Scientific or Literary Societies. $20
• [Anno 6&7, Cap.18*]. ... for authorizing the Disposition ... of certain undivided Parts or Shares belonging in Possession and in Expectancy to the Ladies Horatia Elizabeth and Ida Anne Walgrave, Infants, of and in the Manors of Whittlesey otherwise Whittlesea Saint Mary and Saint Andrew, and the Rectories of ..., and certain Rent-charges ... in the Isle of Ely in the County of Cambridge. $18
  * Private Act

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.29]. Act... to regulate Labour of Children, young Persons, and Women, in Print Works (23 pp.). $40

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.57]. ... to extend the Indemnity of Members of Art Unions against certain Penalties. $8

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.79]. ... to continue ... the Exemption of Inhabitants of Parishes, Townships, and Villages from Liability to be rated as such, in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property, to the Relief of the Poor. $8
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.83]. ... for the Ammendment ... of the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in Scotland. (31 p.) $20
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.100]. ... for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics. (52 p.) $35

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.126]. ... to amend the Laws for the Provision and Regulation of Lunatic Asylums for Counties and Boroughs, and for the Maintenance and Care of Pauper Lunatics ... (52 pp.) $25

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.27]. ... to amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. $20

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.40]. ... to declare certain Ropeworks not within the Operation of the Factory Acts. $15

• [Anno 9&10, Cap.79]. ... to continue ... an Act ... for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. $8
• [Anno 9&10, Cap.84]. ... to amend the Law concerning Lunatic Asylums and the Care of Pauper Lunatics ... $12

• [Anno 10, Cap.29]. ... to limit the Hours of Labour of young Persons and Females in Factories. $25

• [Anno 12&13, Cap.56]. ... to continue ... as Act ... for amending the Law relative to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. $8
• [Anno 12&13, Cap.58]. ... to extend to the Officers of Inland Revenue the Privilege of becoming Members of the Excise Benevolent Fund Society. $10
• [Anno 12&13, Cap.61]. ... to continue ... the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rated as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. $8

• [Anno 14, Cap.8]. ... to extend the Provisions of the Design Act, 1850, and to give Protection from Piracy to Persons exhibiting new Inventions in the Exhibition of Works of Industry of all Nations ... $25

• [Anno 14, Cap.10]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes respectively. $10
• [Anno 14, Cap.11]. ... for the better Protection of ... Apprentices or Servants; and to enable the Guardians and Overseers of the Poor to institute and conduct Prosecutions in certain Cases. $12

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.23]. ... to authorize ... the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund ... for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.24]. ... to amend the Acts for the granting of Sites for Schools. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.28]. ... for the well-ordering of Common Lodging Houses. $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.31]. ... to continue and Act to amend the Laws relating to Loan Societies. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.34]. ... to encourage the Establishment of Lodging Houses for the Labouring Classes. $30
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.36]. ... to repeal the Duties payable on Dwelling Houses according to the Number of Windows or Lights, and to grant in lieu thereof other Duties on Inhabited Houses according to the annual Value. (Margin tear affecting imprint.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.39]. ... to exempt Burgesses and Freemen ... from the Operation of an Act for the better assessing and collecting the Poor Rates and Highway Rates in respect of Small Tenements. $10

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.47]. ... to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability to be rates as such in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. $8
• [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.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.80]. ... to confirm a certain Provisional Order of the General Board of Health for applying the Public Health Act, 1848, to the Borough of Great Yarmouth in ... Norfolk. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.89]. ... to amend the Metropolitan Interments Act, 1850, and to authorize the Advance of Public Money ... for the Purposes of the said Act. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.98]. ... for confirming certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health. $12

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.102]. ... to amend the Acts relating to the Merchant Seamen's Fund, and to provide for the winding up the said Fund, and for the better Management thereof in the meantime. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.103]. ... to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health. $8
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.105]. ... to continue and Act ... for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions ... upon the Common Fund; and to make certain Amendments in the Laws for Relief of the Poor. $10

• [Anno 15&16, Cap.31]. ... to legalize the Formation of Industrial and Provident Societies. $22
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.42]. ... to confirm ceratin Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health, and to amend the Public Health Act, 1848. $12
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.43]. ... to repeal certain Disabilities under the First of George the First, Chapter Thirteen, and the Sixth of George the Third, Chapter Fifty-three [Oaths of Loyalty and Abjuration]. $10
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.48]. ... for the Amendment of the Law respecting the Property of Lunatics. $12
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.49]. ... to extend the Provisions of the several Acts passed for the Conveyance of Sites for Schools. $8
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.51]. ... to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the Commutation of Manorial Rights, and for the gradual Enfranchisement of Lands of Copyhold and Customary Tenure. $25
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.65]. ... to continue and amend an Act ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Friendly Societies. $15
• [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 15&16, Cap.69]. ... to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health. $10

• [Anno 16&17, Cap.123]. ... to amend the Laws relating to the Investments of Friendly Societies. $12

• [Anno 17, Cap.25]. ... to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1852. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.38]. ... for the Suppression of Gaming Houses. $25
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.39]. ... to indemnify such Persons ... as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and to extend the Time limited for those Purposes ...$8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.41]. ... to continue the Poor Law Board. (Date mis-printed as "25th July".) $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.43]. ... to continue an Act ... for charging the Maintenance of certain poor Persons in Unions in England and Wales upon the Common Fund. $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.53]. ... to confirm Provisional Orders of the General Board of Health for the Districts of Plymouth, Haworth, Aberdare, Bishop Auckland, Willenhall, and Over Darwen. (20 p.) $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.56]. ... to make further Provisions in relation to certain Friedly Societies. $12
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.60]. ... to amend an Act ... for the more effectual Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. $12
• [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.66]. ... to continue the Exemption of Inhabitants from Liability ... in respect of Stock in Trade or other Property to the Relief of the Poor. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.69]. ... to indemnify Local Boards of Health as regards rating for the Repair of Highways, under the Public Health Act, 1848. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.74]. ... to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children. $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.75]. ... to remove Doubts concerning the due Acknowledgement of Deeds by Married Women in certain Cases. $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.80]. ... to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. (34 p.) $25
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.81]. ... to make further Provision for the good Government and Extension of the University of Oxford, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of Saint Mary Winchester. $35

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.87]. ... to make further Provision for the Burial of the Dead ... beyond the Limits of the Metropolis. $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.95]. ... to make better Provision for the Administration of the Laws relating to the Public Health. $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.98]. ... to regulate the Salaries of the Parochial Schoolmasters of Scotland. $10
• [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.101]. ... to continue and amend the Acts ... relating to Friendly Societies. $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.112]. ... to afford greater Facilities for the Establishment of Institutions for the Promotion of Literature and Science and the Fine Arts ... $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.113]. ... to amend the Laws relating to the Administration of the Estates of deceased Persons. $8
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.114]. ... to extend the Rights enjoyed by the Graduates of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in respect to the Practice of Physic to the Graduates of the University of London. $15

• [Anno 18, Cap.13]. ... to explain and amend the Lunacy Regulation Act, 1853. $10

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.59]. ... to facilitate Inquiries of Commissioners of Endowed Schools in Ireland. $15
• [Anno 18&19, Cap.63]. ... to consolidate and amend the Law relating to Friendly Societies (26 pp.). $30
• [Anno 18&19, Cap.66]. ... to render valid certain Marriages in Christ Church in the Chapelry of Todmorden and Parish of Rochdale, in ... Lancaster and York. $10
• [Anno 18&19, Cap.68]. ... to amend the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead in Scotland. $25

• [Anno 19&20, Cap.38]. ... further Amendment of the Laws relating to Labour in Factories. $18

• [Anno 19&20, Cap.40]. ... to amend an Act ... relating to Industrial and Provident Societies. $12
• [Anno 19&20, Cap.42]. ... to continue the Act for the Exemption of Stock in Trade from Rating. $10

• [Anno 22, Cap.34]. ... amend and explain an Act ... to repeal the Laws relating to the Combination of Workmen ... $12

• [Anno 22&23, Cap.44]. ... to continue the Act for the Exemption of Stock in Trade from Rating. $10
• [Anno 22&23, Cap.53]. ... to enable Charitable and Provident Societies and Penny Savings Banks to invest all their Proceeds in Savings Banks. $18

• [Anno 23&24, Cap.58]. ... to amend the Act ... relating to Friendly Societies. $15

• [Anno 24, Cap.12]. ... for the Abolition of Contributions by Counties for the Relief of Prisoners in the Queen's Prison, and for the Benefit of Bethlehem Hospital. (Margin rough.) $10

• [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.55]. ... to amend the Laws regarding the Removal of the Poor and the Contribution of Parishes to the Common Fund in Unions. $10
• [Anno 24&25, Cap.59]. ... to facilitate Proceedings before Justices under the Acts relating to Vaccination. $15

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.113]. ... for amending and consolidating the Law relating to Industrial Schools. $20
• [Anno 24&25, Cap.117]. ... to place the Employment of Women, young Persons, Youths, and Children in Lace Factories under the Regulations of the Factories Act. $15
• [Anno 24&25, Cap.123]. ... to reduce and alter the Rate of Duty payable on Proceedings under ... [21&22 Victoria Cap.72]. $8

• [Anno 25, Cap.9]. ... to enable ... Sir John Soane's Museum to send Works of Art to the International Exhibition, 1862. $20

• [Anno 25, Cap.12]. ... for the Protection of Inventions and Designs exhibited at the International Exhibition ... $20

• [Anno 27&28, Cap.48]. ... for the Extension of the Factory Acts. $25

• [Anno 27&28, Cap.98]. ... extending the Provisions of "The Bleaching and Dyeing Works Act, 1860." $12
• [Anno 27&28, Cap.104]. ... to extend the Powers of the Public Works (Manufacturing Districts Act, 1863). $15

• [Anno 30&31, Cap.103]. ... for the Extension of the Factory Acts. $30

• [Anno 30&31, Cap.117]. ... to amend the Industrial and Provident Societies Act. $15

• [Anno 42, Cap.42*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, relating to the Burgh of Castle Douglas. $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 47&48, Cap.82*]. ... to confirm certain Orders ... under ... the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876, ... the Poor Law Act, 1879, and the Didivded Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1882, relating to the Parishes of Barnwood, Brockthrop (two), Churchdown, Down Hatherly, Harescomb (two), [etc.] ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

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