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August, 1817, two acts of the 50th and 55th of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders, to London and Westmin

ster.

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-lebone Park to Charing-cross, and for paving the streets to be made in Maryle-bone Park, and to enable his Majesty to grant small portions of land as sites for public buildings, or to be used as cemetries, within the bills of mortality.

An act to repeal certain provisions in local acts for the maintenance and management of the poor.

An act to repeal an act made in the 89th and 40th of his present Majesty's reign, entituled, "An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made in the 17th of the reign of King George the Second, entituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, and to houses of correction,' and to make other provisions in lieu thereof. An act to revive and continue until the 15th of June, 1817, an act of the 52d of his present Majesty, for the

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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 Crinan canal.

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 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 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.

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An act to extend the provisions of an act of the first of the reign of James the 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 piliory, except in certain cases. An act to regulate the binding of parish apprentices.

An act for establishing the use of an hydrometer, called Sykes's hydrometer, in ascertaining the strength of

spirits, instead of Clarke's hydrome

ter.

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

An act for granting to his Majesty

a certain sum out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for apply. ing certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1816, and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.

LIST OF PATENTS,

From November 1815 to June 1816.

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 improvement 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 wheel-guard. 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 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 appa

ratus.

James Dawson, for improved means of producing motion in bodies whol ly 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 Hadoch, 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 smokey 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 rotatory engine,

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

stones.

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John Collyer, for a machine for shearing woollen cloths.

John Rangely, 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 horse-shoe.

Daniel Wilson, for improved apparatus in distillation.

Thomas Roxton, for an improved

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