5th of April, 1817, an act of the 54th of his present Majesty, for explaining and amending several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England.

An act to continue, until the 1st of August, 1817, two acts of the 50th and 55th of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders, to London and Westminster.

An act for the more effectual punishment of persons riotously destroying or damaging buildings, engines, and machinery, used in and about colleries and other mines, waggon-ways, bridges, and other works, used in conveying and shipping coals and other minerals; and for enabling the owners of such property to recover damages for the injury sustained.

An act to amend an act of the 53d of his present Majesty, for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland.

An act to reduce the duty on the exportation from Great Britain of small coals of a certain description.

An act to amend two acts made in the 53d of the reign of his present Majesty, for opening a more convenient communication from Mary-le-bone Park to Charing-cross, and for paving the streets to be made in Mary-lebone Park, and to enable his Majesty to grant small portions of land as sites for public buildings, or to be used as cemeteries, within the bills of mortality.

An act to repeal certain provisions in local acts for the main

An act to revive and continue, until the 15th of June, 1817, an act of the 52d of his present Majesty, for the more effectual preservation of the peace, by enforcing the duties of watching and warding.

An act for enlarging the time for making the award respecting his Majesty's allotments under an act of the 53d of his present Majesty, for enclosing Windsor Forest; and for extending the provisions of the said act.

An act for making provision to defray the annual charge of any loan of this session of Parliament.

An act for allowing a drawback of the duty on coals consumed in lead mines in Cornwall.

An act for authorizing the barons of the court of Exchequer in Scotland, to order the payment of a certain sum of money, to be applied in completing the Crinancanal.

An act to enable his Majesty to grant certain lands, tenements, and hereditaments, escheated and devolved to his Majesty by the dissolution of Hertford college, in the university of Oxford, and

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the site of the said college and buildings thereon, to the chancellor, master, and scholars of the said university, in trust for the principal and other members of Magdalen-hall, for the purpose of their removing to such site; and to enable the said chancellor, masters, and scholars of the said university, and the president and scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen college, to do all necessary acts for such removal.

An act to extend the provisions of an act of the 1st of the reign of James 1st, entituled, An Act for the better relief of 'the creditors against such as 'shall become bankrupts.'

An act to abolish the punishment of the pillory, except in certain cases.

An act to regulate the binding of parish apprentices.

An act for establishing the use of an hydrometer, called Sikes's hydrometer, in ascertaining the strength of spirits, instead of Clarke's hydrometer.

An act for enabling ecclesiastical corporate bodies, under certain circumstances, to alienate lands for enlarging cemeteries or church-yards.

An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1816, and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.

PATENTS.

George Morton, for a mode of attaching horses to four-wheeled carriages.

Joseph Baader, M. D. Knt. of Bavaria, for an improved plan of constructing rail-roads, and carriages to be used on them.

James Dutton, jun. for improvements in fulling mills.

Allan Taylor, Daniel Gallafent, sen. and jun. for an engine for raising cold and hot water.

George Young, for a method of making a peculiar species of canvas for military and other purposes.

John Malzi, for an instrument called a metranome, or musical time-keeper.

Marquis de Chambonnes, for a method of conducting the air and regulating the temperature in houses and other buildings.

Christopher Dihl, for improvements in distillation.

James Lee, for improvements in his methods of preparing hemp and flax.

Samuel Clegg, for an improved gas apparatus.

Davis Redmund, for a machine for the manufacture of corks and bungs.

Robert Kinder, for a method of propelling ships, boats, and other vessels.

Robert Dickinson, for an im

provement in the hooping of barrels.

William Adamson, for a principle by which a horizontal wheel may be so moved about its axis by water, as to give it a greater power than in any other position.

William Plenty, for an improved plough.

John Millington, for improved machinery for propelling floating vessels in the water.

John Budgem, for a process of reducing rags and other articles in making paper, after they have been used, into their original state.

John Geo. Drake, for a method of expelling the molasses out of refined sugar.

William Baynham, for a composition for making leather and other articles water-proof.

Joseph Manton, for improvements in the construction of fire

arms, and in shoeing horses.

Francis Turrell, for a wheelguard.

George Fred. Muntz, for a method of abating smoke, and obtaining a valuable product therefrom.

John Wood, and Joshua Wordsworth, for improvements in machinery for spinning.

Bryan Donkin, for a method for effecting processes in which a tempe

temperature above that of boiling water is requisite.

John Leigh Bradbury, for improvements in spinning machinery.

P. F. Montgolfier, and H. D. Dayme, for improvements in a machine which acts by the expansion or contraction of heated air.

P. F. Montgolfier, for improvements on the machine called Hydraulic Ram.

William and Daniel West, for methods of applying power and motion to presses and other mechanical apparatus.

James Dawson, for improved means of producing motion in bodies wholly or in part surrounded by water or air.

Enoch Tonkin, for a globe-reflecting stove for light or heat.

John and William Fitkin and Joseph Barton, for a new truss.

Samuel Jean Pauly, for an article for making without seams any kind of clothing; covering for umbrellas, &c.; and cushions filled with atmospherical air.

Samuel Brown, for improvements on the swing plough.

Robert Cameron, for a new machine for manufacturing paper. Emerson Dowson, and John Is. Hawkins, for improvements on grates and stoves.

Uriah Hadock, for a new species of paint for the exterior of houses, ships, &c.

William Macnamara, for a method of manufacturing glass. John Sorby, for an auger of improved construction.

James Younie, for prevention of smoky chimnies.

Abraham Rogers, for a method for saving the consumption of fuel by the setting of boilers, &c.

Henry Osborne, for a method of producing various cylinders. William Lewis, for a machine for fulling cloth.

Joseph Turner, for an improved rotary engine.

William Atkinson, for a method of forming blocks with bricks to imitate stone.

John Woodhouse, for a method of forming the ground for roads and pavements.

William Stenson, for an improved engine to be worked by steam, &c.

William Lassalle, for a new contrivance for improvement in the construction of machines or instruments in clothing or other manufactories.

George Bodley, for an improved metallic engine, to work by steam

or water.

John Collyer, for a machine for shearing woollen cloths.

John Rangeley, for improvements in his hydropneumatic engine.

Robert Copeland, for saving in the consumption of fuel.

William Threadgold, for a machine to prevent obstructions to the passage of smoke in chimnies.

Richard Banks, for improvements on wheeled carriages. Benj Rotch, for a flexible elastic horseshoe.

Daniel Wilson, for improved apparatus in distillation. Thomas Roxton, for an improved

thod for carrying tunnels or archways under rivers.

Philip Taylor, for a method of applying heat to liquors, and in several processes.

Francis Richardson, for improvements in fire-arms.

Christoph. Dihl, for improvements in the making of mastic or cement, and applying it.

George Dodgson, for improving the construction of extinguishing engines and forming pumps.

Isaac Hadley Reddell, for improvements in the means of lighting the interior of offices, &c.

Robert Kemp, for improvements in the manufacturing of cocks and keys.

James Heathcoate, for improvements in the machinery for making hosiery, or frame-work knitted.