House of Lords Journal Volume 37: June 1786 11-20

June 1786 11-20

DIE Lunæ, 12^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Whale Fishery Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Battens and Deals Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty upon Battens and Deals imported into Great Britain."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Cheltenham Paving Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for paving the Footways and Passages in the Town of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester, and for better cleansing and lighting the said Town; for taking down certain old Buildings now standing therein; and for removing and preventing other Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Messages to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to the Three preceding Bills.

And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Pepys and Mr. Thomson:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bills, without any Amendment.

Debtors' Relief Bill.

The House proceeded to take into Consideration the Amendment made by the Commons to the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further 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."

And the same, being read Three Times by the Clerk, was agreed to by the House.

And a Message was sent to the House of Commons, by the former Messengers, to acquaint them therewith.

London Coal Meters' Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Watkin Lewes and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Admeasurement of Coals sold by Wharf Measure within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and between Tower Dock and Limehouse Hole in the County of Middlesex;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

De Bon's et al. Naturalization Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for naturalizing Henry de Bons, Francis Blanchenay, and James Chauvet."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Laird against Ogilvie et al.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of David Laird of Strathmartin Esquire, complaining of Three Interlocutors of the Lords of Session in Scotland of the 4th and 18th of December 1788, and 14th of December 1789; and also of Three Interlocutors of the Lord Ordinary there of the 28th of February, 10th of March, and 9th of July 1789; and praying, "That the same may be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Appellant may have such other Relief in the Premises, as to this House, in their Lordships great Wisdom, shall seem meet; and that Dame Charlotte Tullideph Spouse to Sir John Ogilvie of Invercarity, Baronet; Walter Ogilvie their Eldest Son, David Low in Westmains of Wedderburn, James Birnie, Peter Curr, Peter Thomson, Andrew Duncan, and James Fleming, all Tenants in Baldovan; Alexander Low and Thomas Martin in Westmill of Baldovan; Janet Ramsay and Alexander Scot in Balmydown; David Bell, James Low, and John Mann, in Hill Houses, may be required to answer the said Appeal:"

It is Ordered, That the said Dame Charlotte Tullideph, and the said several other Persons last named, may have a Copy of the said Appeal, and do put in their Answer or respective Answers thereunto in Writing, on or before Wednesday the 12th Day of August next; and Service of this Order upon the said Respondents, or upon any of their Counsel or Agents in the Court of Session in Scotland, shall be deemed good Service.

Longlands to enter into Recognizance on said Appeal.

The House being moved, "That Thomas Longlands of Queen Street, Gentleman, may be permitted to enter into a Recognizance for David Laird Esquire, on account of his Appeal depending in this House, he residing in Scotland:"

It is Ordered, That the said Thomas Longlands may enter into a Recognizance for the said Appellant as desired.

Legacies Duty Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty several additional Stamp Duties on Probates of Wills, Letters of Administration, and on Receipts for Legacies, or for any Share of a Personal Estate divided by Force of the Statute of Distributions."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Earl of Sandwich reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Newspapers, &c. Duty Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty several additional Stamp Duties on Newspapers, Advertisements, and on Cards and Dice."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Earl of Sandwich reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

West India Trade Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining and amending an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America, and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America; and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Earl of Sandwich reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Flax and Cotton Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for further continuing an Act, made in the Twenty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the more effectual Encouragement of the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Earl of Sandwich reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Adjourn.

Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Jovis, decimum sextum diem instantis Julii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Jovis, 16^o Julii 1789.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

His Majesty's Advocate against Milne, in Error.

Counsel (according to Order) were called in to argue the Errors assigned upon the Writ of Error, wherein His Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland is Plaintiff, and John Milne is Defendant, being a Writ of Error from the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

And the First Counsel for the Plaintiff being heard in Part:

The Counsel were directed to withdraw.

Ordered, That the further Hearing of the said Cause be put off to the next Session of Parliament.

Newspapers, &c. Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty several additional Stamp Duties on Newspapers, Advertisements, and on Cards and Dice."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Legacies Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty several additional Stamp Duties on Probates of Wills, Letters of Administration, and on Receipts for Legacies, or for any Share of a Personal Estate divided by Force of the Statute of Distributions."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

Parry's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Parry and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Richard Parry Esquire, in the County of Denbigh in North Wales, in Trustees to be sold, and for applying the Monies arising by such Sale in discharging the Incumbrances affecting the same and other Estates of the said Richard Parry, and for substituting and settling another Estate of greater Value in Lieu thereof;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Election, occasional Voters' Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Nicholls and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent occasional Inhabitants from voting in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for Cities and Boroughs in that Part of Great Britain called England, and the Dominion of Wales;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

Ordered, That the said Bill be printed.

Assheton's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Lister and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for effecting an Exchange between Rebecca Assheton Widow, and the Right Honourable James Earl of Salisbury, of certain small Parts of their Estates in the County of Herts;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Middlesex House of Correction Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Mainwaring and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex to raise Money in Manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

Stanhope's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Duncombe and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Walter Stanhope and John Shuttleworth Esquires, in the Counties of York and Derby, in Trustees, to be sold or exchanged, and for laying out the Purchase Money of the Estates so to be sold in other Estates to be settled to the same Uses, and for enabling the Tenants for Life to grant building and repairing Leases, and for confirming the Election made between the said Parties respecting the said Estates;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Starch Duty Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gilbert and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Tobacco Duty Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gilbert and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the more effectually preventing the fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and, for the Ease of the fair Trader, for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before due; and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations and the United States of America;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Southern Whale Fishery Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gilbert and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of the Southern Whale Fishery;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Three Bills were, severally, read the First Time.

Ld. Milton's Estate Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Ewer and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable the surviving Parties to certain Articles of Agreement made previous to the Marriage of the Honourable John Damer, deceased, with the Honourable Ann Seymour Conway (now Ann Damer Widow), to insert in the Settlement to be executed in pursuance of the said Articles proper Powers for raising the Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds, for the Purposes in the said Articles mentioned;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Scotch Judges' Salaries Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for augmenting and fixing the Salaries of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Scotch Courts Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for discharging the Payment of Sentence Money and other Fees of Court to the Judge of the Court of Admiralty in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and the Payment of Sentence Money to the Judges of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh; for granting Salaries to the Judges of the said Courts in Lieu thereof; and for regulating the Nomination of the said Judges."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Scotch Vellum, &c. Duties Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, to replace to the Revenue the Sums granted out of the same in this Session of Parliament towards the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, Exchequer, and Admiralty Court in Scotland, and Commissary Court of Edinburgh."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Pilchard Fishery Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement of the Pilchard Fishery, by allowing a further Bounty upon Pilchards taken, cured, and exported."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Stamp Office Land Tax Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Salaries and Profits of the Commissioners, Clerks, and other Officers of the Stamp Of fice, rateable to the Land Tax, in Shire Lane Ward, within the Division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary le Strand in the Liberty of Westminster, notwithstanding the said Office should be removed into any other Division or Place."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Lymington Roads Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enlarge the Term and alter the Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening several Roads leading from the Quay at Lymington in the County of Southampton."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Ld. Foley's Estate Bill.

Ordered, That the Committee to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the devised Estates of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Foley, deceased, in the County of Worcester, in Samuel Skey Esquire in Fee-simple, in Exchange for another Estate of equal Value, and for effecting a Sale of other Part of the said devised Estates to the said Samuel Skey, pursuant to an Agreement made by the said Lord Foley in his Life-time, and for investing the Money arising from such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates, under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, to be settled in Lieu thereof to the same Uses," stands committed, be revived, and meet on Wednesday next.

Surrey Roads Bill.

Ordered, That Mr. James Reeve of Lambeth Carpenter, do attend the Committee, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for making, widening, and keeping in Repair certain Roads in the several Parishes of Lambeth, Newington, Saint George Southwark, Bermondsey, and Christ Church, in the County of Surrey, and for watching and lighting the said Roads," stands committed, To-morrow, at One o'Clock.

Writs of Error delivered:

The Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in the usual Manner, delivered in at the Table Two Writs of Error.

In the First of which,

Pughs against Goodtitle:

Evan Pugh and Samuel Pugh are Plaintiffs; and Joseph Goodtitle is Defendant.

And in the last,

Aylett against the King.

Edward Aylett is Plaintiff; and The King is Defendant.

Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent frivolous and vexatious Suits in the Ecclesiastical Courts, and for the more easy Recovery of small Tythes:"

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Wednesday next.

Ship Owners' Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Seventh Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to settle how far Owners of Ships shall be answerable for the Acts of the Masters or Mariners," and for giving a further Relief to Owners of Ships:"

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Wednesday the 21st Day of this instant June.

Surrey Roads Bill, Petition against.

Upon reading the Petition of the several Persons, whose Names are thereunto subscribed, being Mortgagees under a Bill now depending before their Lordships, intituled, "An Act for making, widening, and keeping in Repair certain Roads in the several Parishes of Lambeth, Newington, Saint George Southwark, Bermondsey, and Christ-church in the County of Surrey; and for watching and lighting the said Roads;" and praying their Lordships, "That the said Bill may not pass into a Law without inserting a Clause therein for prohibiting the Trustees from making an additional new Road, until the remaining Debt of £12,500 shall be first paid off and discharged; and that they may be heard by themselves or Counsel against the said Bill:"

It is Ordered, That the said Petition be referred to the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill stands committed, with Liberty for the Petitioners to be heard by themselves or Counsel against the said Bill, as desired, as also Counsel be heard for the Bill at the same time, if they think fit.

Colquhoun against Corbet:

A Petition of James Brewster, now in Custody of the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, for having set the Names of John Anstruther and William Adam Esquires, to the Appellant's Case, in the Cause between John Colquhoun and John Corbet, without their Direction and Privity, was presented and read; alledging, "That it gives him the deepest Concern in having incurred, though unintentionally, the Displeasure of the House; and having been in Custody since the Second of this Instant June, to the great Injury of him in his Profession, the Petitioner humbly prays their Lordships, to take his Case into Consideration, and that he may be discharged."

Ordered, That he be now brought to the Bar of this House.

Appellant's Solicitor reprimanded and discharged.

And the said James Brewster was brought to the Bar accordingly, where he on his Knees, receiving a Reprimand from the Speaker, was ordered to be discharged out of Custody, paying his Fees.

And then he was taken from the Bar.

Ld. Camelford's Estate Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Rolle and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Marriage Settlement of Lord and Lady Camelford, and for making a further Provision for the younger Children of the said Marriage;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Horses Slaughtering Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Mainwaring and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for regulating Houses or other Places kept for the Purpose of slaughtering Horses;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

North Shields Water Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Matthew White Ridley and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for supplying North Shields, and the Shipping resorting thereto, with Water;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Basingstoke Enclosure Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by the Lord Surrey and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Places within the Parish of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Wine Duties Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Rose and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for repealing certain Duties now payable on Wines imported, and for granting new Duties in Lieu thereof, to be collected under the Management of the Commissioners of Excise;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Barking Poor Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gascoyne junior and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for providing a a proper Workhouse, and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex; and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Five Bills were, severally, read the First Time.

Williamson's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gascoyne junior and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting an undivided Moiety, (being the settled Estate of Samuel Williamson a Lunatic,) of and in certain Lands in Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, in Trustees, to be sold, with the Approbation of the Court of Chancery, and for laying out the Money arising therefrom in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the same Uses;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Westminster Coal Meters Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by the Lord Surrey and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining, amending, and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the several Acts passed for more effectually preventing the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Admeasurement of Coals within the City and Liberty of Westminster and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster adjoining thereto, and the several Parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint Mary-le-bon, and such Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn as lies in the County of Middlesex;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Poor Returns Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Phelips and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for obliging Overseers of the Poor to make Returns upon Oath to certain Questions specified therein relative to the State of the Poor;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Militia Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Pye and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for amending and reducing into one Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Militia in that Part of Great Britain called England;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Three Bills were, severally, read the First Time.

Ordered, That the last mentioned Bill be printed.

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Friday next; and the Lords summoned.

Southwark Poor Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Thornton and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for ascertaining and collecting the Poors Rates, and for better governing, regulating, maintaining, and employing the Poor in the Parish of Saint John Southwark in the County of Surrey;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Expiring Laws Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Gilbert and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, directly to foreign Parts in Ships built in Great Britain and navigated according to Law; to the importing Salt from Europe, into the Province of Quebec in America; to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hogs' Lard and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood and Weed Ashes imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported; and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp, and rough and undressed Flax, from His Majesty's Colonies in America;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Two Bills were, severally, read the First Time.

East India Judicature Bill.

It was moved, "That the Order made on the 30th of May last, for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences, committed in the East Indies," as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects; for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies; and for the more easy Proof in certain Cases of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India," on the Third Day of Meeting after the Recess at Whitsuntide might be now read."

The same was accordingly read by the Clerk.

Ordered, That the said Order be discharged.

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a second Time To-Morrow.

Persumery Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Stamp Duties on Perfumery, Hair Powder, and on other Articles therein mentioned, and on Licences to be taken out by Persons uttering or vending the same."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Martis, decimum tertium diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Martis, 13^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Southern Whale Fishery Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of the Southern Whale Fishery."

Ordered, That the said Bill be read the Third Time To-morrow.

Wines, Address for Accounts touching Import and Export of.

Ordered, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty to desire His Majesty would be graciously pleased to order that there be laid before this House, An Account of the Quantity of Wines imported into England from Christmas 1736 to Christmas 1785, distinguishing the Quantity and Species of Wine imported in each Year."

Also, "An Account of the Quantity of Portugal Wines imported into Great Britain for Fifty Years last past, distinguishing the Quantities imported in each Year, from Oporto, Lisbon, and Madeira, respectively."

Also, "An Account of the Quantity of Wines exported from England, from Christmas 1736 to Christmas 1785, distinguishing each Year, and each Species of Wine."

And also, "An Account of the Number of Wine Licences granted for the Years 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, and 1785 respectively, distinguishing how many of the same were granted to Persons not taking out a Licence for retailing Spirituous Liquors or a Licence for retailing Beer, Ale, or other Exciseable Liquors."

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to His Majesty by the Lords with white Staves.

Bills passed by Commission.

The Earl Bathurst acquainted the House, "That His Majesty had been pleased to issue a Commission to several Lords therein named, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament."

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.

The House was resumed.

Then Three of the Lords Commissioners, being in their Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack, the Earl Bathurst in the Middle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury on his Right Hand, and the Lord Sydney on his Left, commanded the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod to signify to the Commons, "The Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House to hear the Commission read."

Who being come, with their Speaker;

The Earl Bathurst said,

My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

His Majesty not thinking fit to be personally present here at this Time, has been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the Great Seal, and thereby given His Royal Assent to divers Acts, which have been agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, the Titles whereof are particularly mentioned; and by the said Commission hath commanded us to declare and notify His Royal Assent to the said several Acts, in the Presence of you the Lords and Commons assembled for that Purpose; which Commission you will now hear read."

Then the said Commission was read by the Clerk, as follows; (videlicet)

GEORGE R.

George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth: To Our right trusty and right well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to Our trusty and well-beloved the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, Greeting: Whereas We have seen and perfectly understood divers and sundry Acts agreed and accorded on by you Our loving Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled, and endorsed by you, as hath been accustomed, the Titles and Names of which Acts hereafter do particularly ensue; (that is to say) "An Act for granting to His Majesty, an additional Duty upon Battens and Deals, imported into Great Britain." "An Act for the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries, carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights." "An Act for regulating the Production of Manifests, and for more effectually preventing fraudulent Practices, in obtaining Bounties and Drawbacks, and in the clandestine re-landing of Goods." "An Act to continue and render more effectual an Act, passed in the Twenty-first Year of His Majesty's Reign, for the Encouragement of the Growth of Hemp and Flax, in that Part of Great Britain called England." "An Act for the further 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." "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for empowering the Commissioners for putting in Execution the several Acts passed for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and Parts adjacent; to collect certain Tolls on Sundays upon the several Roads therein mentioned, and apply the same for the Purposes of the said Acts." "An Act for raising a competent Sum of Money, to defray the Expence of a proper Number of Watchmen, Patroles, and Beadles, within the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist, in the City of Westminster." "An Act for paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, Ways, Passages, and Places, within the Borough of Newport in the Isle of Wight, and for the Removal of present and Prevention of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein." "An Act for paving the Footways and Passages in the Town of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester; and for better cleansing and lighting the said Town; for taking down certain Old Buildings now standing therein; and for removing and preventing other Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances." "An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the Town and Port of Folkestone, and the Parishes of Folkestone, Cheriton, Newington next Hithe, Stanford, Postling, Lyminge, Elham, Paddlesworth, Acris, Swing field, and Hawkinge in the County of Kent." "An Act for more effectually repairing and keeping in Repair, so much of the Road from the Town of Newcastleupon-Tyne, to the City of Carlisle as is within the County of Northumberland." "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act, made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Bottom of Church Lane in the Town of Newcastleunder-Line in the County of Stafford, to the Turnpike Road leading from Woor to Chester near the Town of Namptwich, in the County of Chester, and from Chesterton through Audley and Balterley to Ghorsty Hill." "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts, passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidstone, and from Wat's Cross to Cowden, in the County of Kent, so far as the same relate to the Road from Tonbridge to Maidstone." "An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act, passed in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, so far as relates to the Road from Selby to Leeds, in the West Riding of the County of York." "An Act for enabling the Right Honourable Charles Philip Lord Stourton, and the Right Honourable Mary Lady Stourton his Wife, the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Clifford and the Right Honourable Appolonia Lady Clifford his Wife, and Robert Butler Esquire and the Honourable Elizabeth Butler his Wife, to charge their Estates at Holme in the East Riding of the County of York, with a competent Sum of Money, for the Purpose of improving the same, and also to grant Building and other Leases of the said Estates, and of their other Estates in the Counties of York and Stafford." "An Act to enable the Surviving Parties to certain Articles of Agreement, made previous to the Marriage of the Honourable John Damer deceased, with the Honourable Ann Seymour Conway (now Ann Damer Widow), to insert in the Settlement to be executed in Pursuance of the said Articles, proper Powers for raising the Sum of Forty thousand Pounds, for the Purposes in the said Articles mentioned." "An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Marriage Settlement of Lord and Lady Camelford, and for making a further Provision for the Younger Children of the said Marriage." "An Act to re-settle certain Freehold and Copyhold Lands and Hereditaments, in the County of Norfolk, to the Uses and subject to the Powers limited or expressed of and concerning the same, by the Settlement made on the Marriage of William John Spearman Wasey Esquire, and Elizabetha Honoria his Wife." "An Act for vesting the Estate late of John Shipton Esquire deceased, in the County of Warwick in Trustees, to be sold and disposed of for the Payment of his Debts and certain of the Legacies given by his Will and Codicil, and for laying out the Residue of the Money arising by such Sale, in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the Uses, and for the Purposes therein mentioned." "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Walter Stanhope and John Shuttleworth Esquires, in the Counties of York and Derby in Trustees, to be sold or exchanged, and for laying out the Purchase Money of the Estates so to be sold, in other Estates to be settled to the same Uses, and for enabling the Tenants for Life, to grant Building and repairing Leases, and for confirming the Election made between the said Parties, respecting the said Estates." "An Act for effecting an Exchange between Rebecca Assheton Widow, and the Right Honourable James Earl of Salisbury, of certain small Parts of their Estates in the County of Herts." "An Act for vesting an undivided Moiety (being the settled Estate of Samuel Williamson a Lunatic,) of and in certain Lands in Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, in Trustees to be sold, with the Approbation of the Court of Chancery, and for laying out the Money arising therefrom, in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the same Uses." "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Richard Parry Esquire, in the County of Denbigh in North Wales, in Trustees to be sold, and for applying the Monies arising by such Sale, in discharging the Incumbrances affecting the same, and other Estates of the said Richard Parry, and for substituting and settling another Estate of greater Value in Lieu thereof." "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, Commonable Lands, and Waste Grounds in the Manor and Parish of Broughton in the County of Northampton." "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Manor of Huddersfield, in the County of York." "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Waste Lands, within the Parish of Canwick, in the County of the City of Lincoln, and for separating, dividing, and appropriating an Open Common called Canwick, or the South Common adjoining thereto, and for extinguishing certain Rights of Common in and upon the same, and also in and upon the said Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Waste Lands, and for making Compensations in Lieu thereof respectively." "An Act for dividing and allotting the Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds in the Parish of Berwick Saint John in the County of Wilts." And albeit the said Acts by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled, are fully agreed and consented unto, yet nevertheless the same are not of Force and Effect in the Law without Our Royal Assent given and put to the said Acts; and forasmuch as for divers Causes and Considerations We cannot conveniently at this Time be present in Our Royal Person in the Higher House of Our said Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give Our Royal Assent to such Acts as have been agreed upon by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons, We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made, and have signed the same; and by the same do give and put Our Royal Assent to the said Acts, and to all Articles, Clauses, and Provisions therein contained, and have fully agreed and assented to the said Acts; Willing, that the said Acts and every Article, Clause, Sentence and Provision therein contained, from henceforth shall be of the same Strength, Force, and Effect, as if We had been personally present in the said Higher House, and had openly and publickly, in the Presence of you all, assented to the same: And We do by these Presents declare and notify the same Our Royal Assent as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons aforesaid, as to all others whom it may concern: Commanding also, by these Presents, Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor Edward Lord Thurlow, Our Chancellor of Great Britain, to seal these Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of Great Britain; And also, commanding Our most dear Son and our faithful Counsellor George Prince of Wales; the most Reverend Father in God Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor John Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England; Our said Chancellor of Great Britain; Our right trusty and right wellbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Charles Earl Camden, President of Our Council; Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Granville Marquis of Stafford, Keeper of Our Privy Seal; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousins and Counsellors James Duke of Chandos, Steward of Our Household; Charles Duke of Richmond; George Duke of Montagu, Master of Our Horse; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors James Earl of Salisbury, Chamberlain of Our Household; Henry Earl Bathurst; William Earl of Mansfield, Our Chief Justice assigned to hold Pleas before Us; Our right trusty and well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors Thomas Viscount Weymouth, Groom of our Stole; Richard Viscount Howe, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty; and Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellors Francis Lord Osborne, One of Our principal Secretaries of State, and Thomas Lord Sydney, One other of Our Principal Secretaries of State, or any Three or more of them, to declare and notify this Our Royal Assent in Our Absence in the said Higher House, in the Presence of you, the said Lords and the Commons of Our Parliament, there to be assembled for that Purpose, and the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorse the said Acts, with such Terms and Words, in Our Name, as is requisite, and hath been accustomed for the same; and also to enroll these Our Letters Patent, and the said Acts in the Parliament Roll, and these Our Letters Patent shall be to every of them a sufficient Warrant in that Behalf: And finally, We do declare and will, that after this Our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents, and declared and notified as is aforesaid, then and immediately the said Acts shall be taken, accepted, and admitted good, sufficient, and perfect Acts of Parliament and Laws to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, and to be put in due Execution accordingly; the Continuance or Dissolution of this Our Parliament, or any other Use, Custom, Thing, or Things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: In Witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Thirteenth Day of June, in the Twenty-sixth Year of Our Reign.

By the King Himself, signed with his own Hand.

"Yorke."

Then the Earl Bathurst said,

"In Obedience to His Majesty's Commands, and by Virtue of the Commission which has been now read, We do declare and notify to you, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, in Parliament assembled, That His Majesty hath given His Royal Assent to the several Acts in the Commission mentioned; and the Clerks are required to pass the same in the usual Form and Words."

Then the Clerk Assistant, having received the Money Bill from the Hands of the Speaker, brought it to the Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the Title of that and the other Bills to be passed, severally, as follow; (videlicet)

1. "An Act for granting to His Majesty an additional Duty upon Battens and Deals imported into Great Britain."

To this Bill the Royal Assent was pronounced by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy remercie ses bons Sujets accepte leur Benevolence et ainsi le veult."

2. "An Act for the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights."

3. "An Act for regulating the Production of Manifests ; and for more effectually preventing fraudulent Practices in obtaining Bounties and Drawbacks, and in the clandestine re-landing of Goods."

4. "An Act to continue and render more effectual an Act passed in the Twenty-first Year of His Majesty's Reign, for the Encouragement of the Growth of Hemp and Flax in that Part of Great Britain called England."

5. "An Act for the further 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."

6. "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign for empowering the Commissioners for putting in Execution the several Acts passed for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Squares, Streets, and Lanes within the City and Liberty of Westminster and Parts adjacent, to collect certain Tolls on Sundays upon the several Roads therein mentioned, and apply the same for the Purposes of the said Acts."

7. "An Act for raising a competent Sum of Money to defray the Expence of a proper Number of Watchmen, Patroles, and Beadles within the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist in the City of Westminster."

8. "An Act for paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting and watching the Streets, Lanes, Ways, Passages, and Places within the Borough of Newport in the Isle of Wight; and for the Removal of present and Prevention of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein."

9. "An Act for paving the Footways and Passages in the Town of Cheltenham in the County of Gloucester; and for better cleansing and lighting the said Town; for taking down certain old Buildings now standing therein; and for removing and preventing other Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances."

10. "An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts within the Town and Port of Folkestone, and the Parishes of Folkestone, Cheriton, Newington next Hithe, Stanford, Postling, Lyminge, Elham, Paddlesworth, Acris, Swingfield, and Hawkinge, in the County of Kent."

11. "An Act for more effectually repairing and keeping in Repair so much of the Road from the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the City of Carlisle, as is within the County of Northumberland."

12. "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Bottom of Church Lane in the Town of Newcastle-under-Line in the County of Stafford, to the Turnpike Road leading from Woor to Chester, near the Town of Namptwich in the County of Chester, and from Chesterton, through Audley and Balterley to Ghorsty Hill."

13. "An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from Tonbridge to Maidstone, and from Wat's Cross to Cowden in the County of Kent, so far as the same relate to the Road from Tonbridge to Maidstone."

14. "An Act to enlarging the Term and Powers of an Act passed in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, so far as relates to the Road from Selby to Leeds in the West Riding of the County of York."

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant in these Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy le veult."

15. "An Act for enabling the Right Honourable Charles Philip Lord Stourton and the Right Honourable Mary Lady Stourton his Wife, the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Clifford and the Right Honourable Appolonia Lady Clifford his Wife, and Robert Butler Esquire and the Honourable Elizabeth Butler, his Wife, to charge their Estates at Holme in the East Riding of the County of York with a competent Sum of Money, for the Purpose of improving the same; and also to grant Building and other Leases of the said Estates, and of their other Estates in the Counties of York and Stafford."

16. "An Act to enable the surviving Parties to certain Articles of Agreement, made previous to the Marriage of the Honourable John Damer deceased with the Honourable Ann Seymour Conway, (now Ann Damer Widow,) to insert in the Settlement to be executed in pursuance of the said Articles, proper Powers for raising the Sum of Forty Thousand Pounds for the Purposes in the said Articles mentioned."

17. "An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Marriage Settlement of Lord and Lady Camelford, and for making a further Provision for the younger Children of the said Marriage."

18. "An Act to re-settle certain Freehold and Copyhold Lands and Hereditaments in the County of Norfolk, to the Uses and subject to the Powers limited or expressed of and concerning the same, by the Settlement made on the Marriage of William John Spearman Wasey Esquire, and Elizabetha Honoria his Wife."

19. "An Act for vesting the Estate late of John Shipton Esquire, deceased, in the County of Warwick in Trustees, to be sold and disposed of for the Payment of his Debts, and certain of the Legacies given by his Will and Codicil; and for laying out the Residue of the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the Uses and for the Purposes therein mentioned."

20. "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Walter Stanhope and John Shuttleworth Esquires, in the Counties of York and Derby in Trustees to be sold or exchanged, and for laying out the Purchase Money of the Estates so to be sold in other Estates to be settled to the same Uses; and for enabling the Tenants for Life to grant Building and repairing Leases; and for confirming the Election made between the said Parties respecting the said Estates."

21. "An Act for effecting an Exchange between Rebecca Assheton Widow, and the Right Honourable James Earl of Salisbury of certain small Parts of their Estates in the County of Herts."

22. "An Act for vesting an undivided Moiety (being the settled Estate of Samuel Williamson, a Lunatic) of and in certain Lands in Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster in Trustees, to be sold with the Approbation of the Court of Chancery; and for laying out the Money arising therefrom in the Purchase of other Estates to be settled to the same Uses."

23. "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of Richard Parry Esquire in the County of Denbigh, in North Wales, in Trustees to be sold; and for applying the Monies arising by such Sale in discharging the Incumbrances affecting the same and other Estates of the said Richard Parry; and for substituting and settling another Estate of greater Value in Lieu thereof."

24. "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, Commonable Lands and Waste Grounds in the Manor and Parish of Broughton in the County of Northampton."

25. "An Act for dividing and enclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds within the Manor of Huddersfield, in the County of York."

26. "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Waste Lands, within the Parish of Canwick, in the County of the City of Lincoln, and for separating, dividing, and appropriating, an Open Common called Canwick or the South Common adjoining thereto, and for extinguishing certain Rights of Common in and upon the same, and also in and upon the said Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Waste Lands, and for making Compensation in Lieu thereof, respectively."

27. "An Act for dividing and allotting the Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds in the Parish of Berwick Saint John, in the County of Wilts."

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant in these Words; (videlicet)

"Soit fait comme il est desiré."

Then the Commons withdrew.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.

The House was resumed.

East India Judicature Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies, for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, (intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences committed in the East Indies), as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects, for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies, and for the more easy Proof in certain Cases of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India:"

The said Bill was accordingly read a Second Time.

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Inge's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Hawkins Browne and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to empower the Guardians of William Phillips Inge Esquire, and of his Sisters, to make or grant Building and other Leases during their respective Minorities, and also to make Exchanges of intermixed Lands, in or near the Town of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, with one Amendment, to which they desire their Lordships' Concurrence.

The House proceeded to take into Consideration the Amendment made by the Commons to the said Bill.

And the same, being read Three Times by the Clerk, was agreed to by the House.

And a Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Pepys and Mr. Thomson, to acquaint them therewith.

Barking Vicarage Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Popham and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for applying Part of the Trust Fund which was given by the Will of Doctor Ralph Freeman, for repairing or re-building the Vicarage House of the Parish of Barking, in the County of Essex, in purchasing a convenient Piece of Ground in the said Parish, and in building a new Vicarage House thereon;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Lymington Roads Bill.

The Lord Viscount Dudley and Ward reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enlarge the Term and alter the Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening several Roads leading from the Quay at Lymington, in the County of Southampton," was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Poor Returns Bill.

Ordered, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act for obliging Overseers of the Poor to make Returns upon Oath, to certain Questions specified therein, relative to the State of the Poor," be printed.

Persumery Duty Bill.

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Stamp Duties on Perfumery, Hair Powder, and other Articles therein mentioned; and on Licences to be taken out by Persons uttering or vending the same."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to it.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Pepys and Mr. Thomson:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bill, without any Amendment.

Starch Duty Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Tobacco Duty Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the more effectually preventing the fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the fair Trader; for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before due, and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations and the United States of America."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Horses Slaughtering Bill.

Ordered, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act for regulating Houses or other Places kept for the Purpose of Slaughtering Horses," be printed.

Ordered, That the said Bill be read a Second Time on Tuesday next.

Expiring Laws Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America, to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further Encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, directly to foreign Parts in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; to the importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec in America; to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hogs Lard, and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood, and Weed Ashes, Imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported; and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp and rough and undressed Flax from His Majesty's Colonies in America."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Middlesex House of Correction Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex to raise Money in Manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

North Shields Water Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for supplying North Shields, and the Shipping resorting thereto, with Water."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the same Day, at the same Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Basingstoke Enclosure Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Places within the Parish of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the same Day, at the same Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Barking Poor Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for providing a proper Workhouse and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex, and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the same Day, at the same Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Southwark Poor Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for ascertaining and collecting the Poor's Rates, and for better governing, regulating, maintaining, and employing the Poor in the Parish of Saint John Southwark in the County of Surrey."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Friday next, at the usual Time and Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Anglesey Coals Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Parry and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in Smelting Copper and Lead Ores, and in Fire Engines for draining Water out of the Copper and Lead Mines within the Isle of Anglesey;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

Whichcote's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Popham and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Whichcote Esquire, deceased, in the County of Lincoln, in Trustees for Sale to pay off Incumbrances affecting the same, and for other Purposes therein mentioned;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Southwark Paving, &c. Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Joseph Mawbey and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places within the Manor of Southwark otherwise called the Clink or Bishop of Winchester's Liberty, in the Parish of Saint Saviour Southwark in the County of Surrey; for the Removal of present and preventing of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for laying out Two new Streets, and widening and regulating several other of the Streets and Passages within the said Liberty; for discontinuing the Passage through Globe Alley, and for shutting up in the Night-time the Way leading from Clink Street in the said Liberty to the River Side;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

Scotch Judges Salaries Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for augmenting and fixing the Salaries of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Scotch Courts Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for discharging the Payment of Sentence Money and other Fees of Court to the Judge of the Court of Admiralty in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and the Payment of Sentence Money to the Judges of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh; for granting Salaries to the Judges of the said Courts in Lieu thereof; and for regulating the Nomination of the said Judges."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Scotch Vellum, &c. Duty Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, to replace to the Revenue the Sums granted out of the same in this Session of Parliament towards the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, Exchequer, and Admiralty Court in Scotland, and Commissary Court of Edinburgh."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Pilchard Fishery Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement of the Pilchard Fishery, by allowing a further Bounty upon Pilchards taken, cured, and exported."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Stamp Office Land Tax Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Salaries and Profits of the Commissioners, Clerks, and other Officers of the Stamp Office rateable to the Land Tax in Shire Lane Ward within the Division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary le Strand in the Liberty of Westminster, notwithstanding the said Office should be removed into any other Division or Place."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Bristol Bridges Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for re-building, widening, and enlarging the Bridge over the River Avon in the City of Bristol, and erecting a temporary Bridge adjoining; and for widening the Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Passages leading thereto; and for building another Bridge over some other Part of the said River within the said City (if necessary); and for opening proper Ways and Passages thereto; and for making a Way from the Bridge already built to Temple Street in the said City; and for hearing Counsel for and against the same:"

Counsel were accordingly called in.

And the said Bill was read a Second Time.

Then the Petition of the Subscribers on behalf of themselves and others, Inhabitants of and Traders in and to the City of Bristol, praying to be heard against the said Bill:

Also the Petition of the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of the Society of Merchant Vintners of the City of Bristol, praying that the said Bill may pass into a Law, were read.

Then Mr. Plumer was heard for the Petitioners against the said Bill.

Then Richard Canninglon was called in, who being sworn, delivered in a Plan of the Road proposed by the Bill, and of the Road proposed to be made by the Petitioners as set forth in their Petition against the Bill, which he said "Was perfectly correct, a small Mistake only excepted; that to his Knowledge, the Public Road used in going from the Bridge in Bristol to Bath, has been, for these Thirty Years past, through Thomas Street, and from thence principally through Port Wall Lane; that some Persons might go by Way of Tucker Street to Temple Street, but the general Road through Tucker Street was to a Place called Counterslip and Temple Backs; that Thomas Street is about Two thousand feet in Length; that it is fully inhabited; that the Dwelling Houses consist chiefly of Tradesmen's Shops, besides Four or Five Inns; that it is extremely commodious both for Carriages and Foot-Passengers to pass and repass, having a broad Pavement on each Side, and the Pavement in the Middle raised; that on the contrary Temple Street slopes from each Side with a Gutter in the Middle and has no Pavement; that the Houses are large but old, and chiefly inhabited by poor People, to whom they are let out in Lodgings; that a Fair is held in it on the 1st of March every Year, which continues a Fortnight, but that the erecting and taking away the Stands takes up near Two Months, during which Time there is hardly any such thing as Carriages passing; that Port Wall Lane may be made very commodious by taking down the Borough Wall, and at little or no Expence, because the Garden Ground behind being laid open, Houses might be built there, the Rents of which would reimburse any Expence of making such Improvement; that the Narrow Parts of Thomas Street might also be improved and at little Expence to the Owners, by taking down a few of the Houses and putting them backwarder, and that with these Alterations it would be a much more commodious Road than the Road mentioned by the Bill; that Merchandize brought into the Port of Bristol is all landed on the North Side of the Bridge, in consequence of which the Traders on the South Side are obliged to pay a very heavy and disproportionate Toll, inasmuch as a Load of Sand, which is not worth Twenty Shillings, pays as much as a Ton of Kelp, which is worth £3 or £4; that the Tradesmen and Shopkeepers in Thomas Street will be considerably injured if the Road proposed by the Bill should take Place."

Being cross-examined he said, "The Borough Wall belonged to the Corporation, and that he the Witness held Part of the other Side of Port Wall Lane, under Lease from the Corporation for Three Lives." Being asked, "Whether a considerable Number of Waggoners, Stage Coachmen and other Persons did not prefer the Road through Temple Street." He said, "He believed very few Persons went that Way, that Two Thirds of the Persons passing preferred Port Wall Lane and Thomas Street." Being asked, Which Way the Remainder went?" He said, "Some might go through Temple Street, some through Michell Lane, and some through Long Row; that the latter must go through Two Thirds of Temple Street; that Three of the Inns in Thomas Street are frequented by Carriers chiefly; that the Bell and the Three Kings Inn have each a Back Way into Temple Street; that there is a Glass House in Temple Street which belongs to the Witness, and a Sugar House, two Glass Houses in Tucker Street and one in Counter Slip; that Temple Street is straiter than Thomas Street, and as to the Width there is very little Difference upon the whole between them; that the Witness has agreed to subscribe £200 towards the Improvement of Port Wall Lane."

He was directed to withdraw.

Then Preston Edgar was called in, and being sworn, was asked, "If he was a Petitioner against the Bill?" He said, "He had signed a Petition to the House of Commons against the Bill, whilst it was depending there."

He was directed to withdraw.

Then Matthew Concannan was called in, and being sworn and examined to the same Points, acquainted the House, "That since his Residence in Bristol, which is Twenty Years, the Witness believes where one Person has gone from the Bridge by the Way of Tucker Street to Temple Gate, Ninety-nine Persons have gone by Way of Thomas Street and Port Wall Lane; that in the narrowest Part of Thomas Street Two Carriages can pass each other; that Thomas Street is inhabited by very respectable Tradesmen of all Descriptions, the Shops are large, the Rents high, and it has six large commodious Inns; that the Houses in Temple Street are large, but it is inhabited chiefly by Jews, and Persons of the lowest Condition who lodge there as Inmates; that if the intended Road through Temple Street were to take Place it would nearly ruin the Trade of Thomas Street, the Retail Shopkeepers of which are supported chiefly by casual Customers passing and repassing; that Tucker Street is so very narrow, that in some Parts two Carriages can hardly pass each other."

Being cross-examined he said, "That Temple Street, taking it from one End to the other, was straiter than Thomas Street; that Waggoners prefer going by Temple Street to unload at the back Doors of two of the Inns in Thomas Street, because the turning in the other Road is quite sharp."

He was directed to withdraw.

Then Robert Collins was called in, and being sworn, acquainted the House, "That he has known Thomas Street and Temple Street in Bristol, Fifty Years; that the Public Road from the Bridge to Bath is by Way of Thomas Street; that Nineteen out of Twenty both of Public and private Carriages pass that Way, also all the public Entries into the City; that if the Road is turned as proposed, the Tradesmen in Thomas Street would be obliged to look out for other Habitations." Being asked, "If they did not depend upon casual Customers?" He said, "No, upon constant Customers from Wales and other Parts of the Kingdom." The Question being repeated, he said, Yes, they did depend on casual Customers too; that the Amount of the Bridge Toll was £3,500 per Annum, and that it falls heavier on the Inhabitants of the South Side than it does on those of the North Side of the Bridge, the Goods being all landed on the latter; that he imagines the Inns and Manufactories are in a better State since the Bridge was built than before." Being asked, "Whether the Estates are worse or better for the Tax?" He said, "Worse."

Being cross-examined, he said "There was a Bridge Tax, an Assessment upon Houses, and a Tax on all Vessels to support the Bridge; that there are Nine Parishes on the North Side and Three on the South Side; that there are 50,000 more Houses on the North Side than on the South, and the Shipping chiefly belongs to the Inhabitants and Owners of the North Side." Being asked "If Twenty Parts of the Shipping out of One and Twenty did not belong to the Inhabitants of the North Side?" He said, "He believed they might."

He was directed to withdraw.

Then Mr. Plumer of Counsel for the Petitioners, acquainted the House, "That he had other Witnesses to call who were under the same Predicament with Preston Edgar, namely, of having signed the Petition to the House of Commons though they were not Petitioners to this House, and requested that if it should be found necessary from the Case to be made out by the Petitioners in Behalf of the Bill to call them, that he might be indulged in stating such Reasons to the House as should occur to him why he ought to be permitted to call them."

Mr. Burke of Counsel in Support of the Bill waiving his Objection:

Preston Edgar was called in and acquainted the House, That he has known the South Side of Bristol Bridge Twenty Years; that he is in Partnership in a Copper Manufactory in Thomas Street, which was erected there at the Expence of £2,000, the chief Inducement to engaging in which was the Addition that was likely to be made to the Trade, from the Concourse of Per sons passing and re-passing in that Street; that being open to the View of every Body it attracts their Attention, particularly Brewers and Dyers; that he is now making a Copper, which, when finished, will contain 14,000 Gallons; that the Capital employed in this Manufacture is £10,000; that one Lewis, a Collar Maker, whose Business depends chiefly on casual Customers, will be particularly injured if the Road proposed in the Bill should pass; That he could not ascertain the Damage it would be to his own Trade, but he would not have entered on the Plan if he had thought the Road would have been turned, and that the Money laid out by the Partnership was upon the Faith of the Course of Trade at that Time; that, independent of any private Consideration if Port Wall Lane was widened, he the Witness verily believed that Road would be the best."

Being cross-examined, he said, "Temple Street was broader upon the whole than Thomas Street, and it was the straitest." Being asked, "Whether the Freehold of this House, where the Witness's Manufacture is carried on, was sunk in its Value?" He said, Yes." Being asked, "Whether the Rents all over the City had fallen?" He said, "He could not tell."

He was directed to withdraw.

The Counsel were directed to withdraw.

Ordered, That the further Consideration of the said Bill be put off to Tuesday next.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, decimum quartum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Mercurii, 14^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Kings Answer to Address.

The Lord Chamberlain reported, "That the Lords with white Staves had, according to Order, waited on His Majesty with their Lordships' Address of Yesterday; and that His Majesty was pleased to say, "He would give Directions accordingly."

Scotch Judges Salaries Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for augmenting and fixing the Salaries of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Scotch Courts Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for discharging the Payment of Sentence Money, and other Fees of Court, to the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and the Payment of Sentence Money to the Judges of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh, for granting Salaries to the Judges of the said Courts in Lieu thereof, and for regulating the Nomination of the said Judges."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Scotch Vellum, &c. Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, to replace to the Revenue the Sums granted out of the same in this Session of Parliament towards the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, Exchequer and Admiralty Court in Scotland, and Commissary Court of Edinburgh."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Southern Whale Fishery Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of the Southern Whale Fishery."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Pilchard Fishery Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty for the Encouragement of the Pilchard Fishery, by allowing a further Bounty upon Pilchards taken, cured, and exported."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Stamp Office Land Tax Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for continuing the Salaries and Profits of the Commissioners, Clerks, and other Officers of the Stamp Office rateable to the Land Tax in Shire Lane Ward, within the Division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary le Strand, in the Liberty of Westminster, not withstanding the said Office should be removed into any other Division or Place."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Lymington Roads Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enlarge the Term and alter the Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening several Roads leading from the Quay at Lymington, in the County of Southampton."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Messages to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to the Seven preceding Bills.

And Messages were, severally, ordered to be sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Pepys and Mr. Thomson:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bills, without any Amendment.

Westminster Coal Meters Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for explaining, amending, and reducing into one Act of Parliament, the several Acts passed for more effectually preventing the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Admeasurement of Coals within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster adjoining thereto, and the several Parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint Mary-le-bon, and such Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn as lies in the County of Middlesex."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Friday next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

London Coal Meters Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Admeasurement of Coals sold by Wharf Measure within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and between Tower Dock and Limehouse Hole in the County of Middlesex."

Ordered, That the said Bill, be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the same Day at the same Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Pughs against Goodtitle in Error.

The House being moved, "That a Day may be appointed for hearing Counsel to argue the Errors assigned upon the Writ of Error, wherein Evan Pugh and Samuel Pugh are Plaintiffs, and Joseph Goodtitle is Defendant:"

It is Ordered, That this House will hear the Errors argued by Counsel at the Bar, on the First vacant Day for Causes after those already appointed.

Starch Duty Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Tobacco Duty Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the more effectually preventing the fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the Fair Trader; for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before due, and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations, and the United States of America."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Expiring Laws Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies directly to foreign Parts in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; to the importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec in America; to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hogs Lard, and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood and Weed Ashes, imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp and rough and undressed Flax from His Majesty's Colonies in America."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Chedworth reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Ecclefiaftical Courts Bill, rejected.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent frivolous and vexatious Suits in the Ecclesiastical Courts, and for the more easy Recovery of small Tythes:"

The said Bill was accordingly read a Second Time.

Moved, "That the said Bill be rejected."

After short Debate,

The Question was put thereupon?

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Ordered, That the said Bill be rejected.

Basingstoke Enclosure Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Places, within the Parish of Basing stoke in the County of Southampton," was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; that the Parties concerned had given their Consents to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Barking Poor Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale also reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for providing a proper Workhouse and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking, in the County of Essex, and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking," was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Middlesex House of Correction Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, to raise Money in Manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County," was committed.

East India Judicature Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the House to be put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, (intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature, for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences committed in the East Indies,") as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects, for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies, and for the more easy Proof in certain Cases of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India:"

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the said Bill.

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, " That they had made a Progress in the Bill."

Ordered, That the House be again put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow, and the Lords summoned.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Jovis, decimum quintum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Jovis, 15^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Starch Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Tobacco Duty Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the more effectually preventing the Fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the fair Trader; for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before due, and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations, and the United States of America."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Expiring Laws Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture, of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies directly to foreign Parts in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; to the importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec in America; to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hogs Lard, and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood, and Weed Ashes, imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported, and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores, to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp and rough and undressed Flax from His Majesty's Colonies in America."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Middlesex House of Correction Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, to raise Money in Manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Basingstoke Enclosure Bill.

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Places, within the Parish of Basingstoke, in the County of Southampton."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Barking Poor, Bill.

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for providing a proper Workhouse and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking, in the County of Essex, and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Messages to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to the Six preceding Bills.

And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Pepys and Mr. Thomson:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bills, without any Amendment.

Anglesey Coals Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in smelting Copper and Lead Ores, and in Fire Engines for draining Water out of the Copper and Lead Mines within the Isle of Anglesey."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill on Monday next.

Election, occasional Voters' Bill.

Ordered, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act to prevent occasional Inhabitants from voting in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, for Cities and Boroughs in that Part of Great Britain called England, and the Dominion of Wales," be read a Second Time on Thursday next, and the Lords summoned.

Colquhoun against Corbet.

Upon reading the Petition and Appeal of John Colquhoun, Tenant in Gartcosh, complaining of Two Interlocutors of the Lords of Session in Scotland, of the 3d and 24th of December 1785; and also of an Interlocutor of the Lord Ordinary there, of the 10th of this instant June; and praying, "That the same may be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Appellant may have such other Relief in the Premises as to this House, in their Lordships' great Wisdom, shall seem just; and that John Corbet of Tolcross Esquire, may be required to answer the said Appeal:"

It is Ordered, That the said John Corbet may have a Copy of the said Appeal, and do put in his Answer thereunto in Writing on or before Thursday the 13th Day of July next; and Service of this Order upon any of the Counsel or Agents of the said Respondent in the Court of Session in Scotland, shall be deemed good Service.

East India Judicature Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the House to be again put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences committed in the East Indies," as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects; for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies; and for the more easy Proof in certain Cases of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India;" and for the Lords to be summoned:

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the said Bill.

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and made several Amendments thereto, which he was ready to report when the House will please to receive the same."

Ordered, That the said Report be received Tomorrow.

Southwark Paving, &c. Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places within the Manor of Southwark otherwise called The Clink or Bishop of Winchester's Liberty in the Parish of Saint Saviour Southwark in the County of Surrey; for the Removal of present and preventing of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for laying out Two new Streets, and widening and regulating several other of the Streets and Passages within the said Liberty; for discontinuing the Passage through Globe Alley; and for shutting up in the Night-time the Way leading from Clink Street in the said Liberty to the River Side."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Beaumont's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Steele and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting the Estate comprized in the Settlement made on the Marriage of the Reverend Thomas Beaumont Clerk, deceased, in Trustees to sell the same, and apply the Money to arise by such Sale in the Purchase of other Lands or Hereditaments to be settled in like Manner in Lieu thereof;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Veneris, decimum sextum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Veneris, 16^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Foreigners' Consecration to Office of Bishop's Bill, presented.

The Archbishop of Canterbury presented to the House a Bill, intituled, "An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York for the Time being, to consecrate to the Office of a Bishop Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions."

The said Bill was read the First Time.

East India Judicature Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for receiving the Report of the Amendments made by the Committee of the whole House to the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences committed in the East Indies," as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects; for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies; and for the more easy Proof, in certain Cases, of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India:"

The Lord Scarsdale accordingly reported the said Amendments.

The said Amendments were read by the Clerk as follow; (videlicet)

Pr. 20. L. 9. Leave out ("satisfying") and insert ("submitting to")

L. 13. After ("direct") insert ("Provided always that it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to order any Person in Custody under any of the Provisions of this Act to be from Time to Time brought up and remanded in such Manner as to the said Commissioners shall seem meet")

Pr. 26. L. 3. After ("Demurrer") insert ("unless a Writ of Error shall be brought thereon, and then within Eight Days next after such Judgement shall be affirmed or such Writ of Error shall be Nonpros'd")

Pr. 29. L. 14. and 15. Leave out from ("Prosecutor") to the End of the Clause, and insert the following Words ("Carry on such Proceedings, and award such and the like Process and Processes as is and are competent by the Law of that Part of Great Britain called Scotland for Recovery of Debts due to the Crown")

Pr. 37. L. 14. Leave out ("propery") and insert ("proper")

L. 20. After ("Offences") insert ("which shall be")

L. 21. After ("committed") leave out ("since") and insert ("after")

L. 23. After ("Eighty") leave out to ("against") in Line 24, and insert ("Seven")

L. 29. After ("Penalties") insert ("to be")

L. 30. Leave out ("since") and insert ("after")

L. 32. After ("Eighty") leave out to ("for") in Line 33, and insert ("Seven")

L. 37 and 38. Leave out ("from henceforth")."

And the said Amendments, being read a Second Time, were agreed to by the House.

Poor Returns Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for obliging Overseers of the Poor to make Returns upon Oath to certain Questions specified therein relative to the State of the Poor."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill on Monday next.

Bills passed by Commission.

The Earl Bathurst acquainted the House, "That His Majesty had been pleased to issue a Commission to several Lords therein named, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament."

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.

The House was resumed.

Then Three of the Lords Commissioners being in their Robes, and seated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolsack, the Earl Bathurst in the Middle, with the Archbishop of Canterbury on his Right Hand, and the Lord Osborne on his Left, commanded the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod to signify to the Commons, "The Lords Commissioners desire their immediate Attendance in this House to hear the Commission read."

Who being come, with their Speaker;

The Earl Bathurst said,

My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

"His Majesty not thinking sit to be personally present here at this Time, has been pleased to cause a Commission to be issued under the Great Seal, and thereby given His Royal Assent to divers Acts which have been agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament, the Titles whereof are particularly mentioned, and by the said Commission hath commanded us to declare and notify His Royal Assent to the said several Acts, in the Presence of you the Lords and Commons, assembled for that Purpose; which Commission you will now hear read."

Then the said Commission was read by the Clerk, as follows:

GEORGE R.

George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth: To Our right trusty and right well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and to Our trusty and well-beloved the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, Greeting: Whereas We have seen and perfectly understood divers and sundry Acts agreed, and accorded on by you Our loving Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this Our present Parliament assembled, and endorsed by you, as hath been accustomed, the Titles and Names of which Acts here after do particularly ensue; (that is to say) "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Stamp Duties on Perfumery, Hair Powder, and other Articles therein mentioned, and on Licences to be taken out by Persons uttering or vending the same." "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, to replace to the Revenue the Sums granted out of the same in this Session of Parliament, towards the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, Exchequer, and Admiralty Court in Scotland, and Commissary Court of Edinburgh." "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties." "An Act for the more effectually preventing the fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the fair Trader; for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before due, and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations and the United States of America." "An Act for the Encouragement of the Southern Whale Fishery." "An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement of the Pilchard Fishery, by allowing a farther Bounty upon Pilchards taken, cured, and exported." "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further encouraging the manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on Foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, directly to foreign Parts, in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; to the importing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec in America; to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hog's Lard, and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into the Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood, and Weed Ashes imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported; and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores, to be consumed on Board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp and rough and undressed Flax from His Majesty's Colonies in America." "An Act for augmenting and fixing the Salaries of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland." "An Act for discharging the Payment of Sentence Money and other Fees of Court to the Judge of the Court of Admiralty, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and the Payment of Sentence Money to the Judges of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh; for granting Salaries to the Judges of the said Courts in Lieu thereof; and for regulating the Nomination of the said Judges." "An Act for continuing the Salaries and Profits of the Commissioners' Clerks and other Officers of the Stamp Office, rateable to the Land Tax in Shire Lane Ward, within the Division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary le Strand, in the Liberty of Westminster, notwithstanding the said Office should be removed into any other Division or Place." "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex to raise Money in Manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County." "An Act for providing a proper Workhouse, and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex; and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking." "An Act to enlarge the Term and alter the Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening several Roads leading from the Quay at Lymington in the County of Southampton." An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Whichcote Esquire, deceased, in the County of Lincoln, in Trustees, for Sale, to pay off Incumbrances affecting the same, and for other Purposes therein mentioned." "An Act to empower the Guardians of William Phillips Inge Esquire, and of His Sisters, to make or grant Building and other Leases during their respective Minorities; and also to make Exchanges of intermixed Lands in or near the Town of Birmingham in the County of Warwick." "An Act for vesting the Estate comprized in the Settlement made on the Marriage of the Reverend Thomas Beaumont, Clerk, deceased, in Trustees, to sell the same, and apply the Money to arise by such Sale in the Purchase of other Lands or Hereditaments to be settled in like Manner in Lieu thereof." "An Act for applying Part of the Trust Fund which was given by the Will of Doctor Ralph Freeman for repairing or re-building the Vicarage House of the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex, in purchasing a convenient Piece of Ground in the said Parish, and in building a new Vicarage House thereon." "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Places within the Parish of Basing stoke in the County of Southampton." "And albeit the said Acts by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons in this Our present Parliament assembled, are fully agreed and consented unto, yet nevertheless the same are not of Force and Effect in the Law without Our Royal Assent given and put to the said Acts; and forasmuch as for divers Causes and Considerations, We cannot conveniently at this Time be present in Our Royal Person, in the Higher House of Our said Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give Our Royal Assent to such Acts as have been agreed upon by you Our said Subjects the Lords and Commons, We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent to be made, and have signed the same, and by the same do give and put Our Royal Assent to the said Acts, and to all Articles, Clauses, and Provisions therein contained, and have fully agreed and assented to the said Acts; Willing, that the said Acts, and every Article, Clause, Sentence, and Provision therein contained, from henceforth shall be of the same Strength, Force, and Effect, as if We had been personally present in the said Higher House, and had openly and publickly, in the Presence of you all, assented to the same: And We do by these Presents declare and notify the same Our Royal Assent, as well to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons aforesaid, as to all others whom it may concern; Commanding also, by these Presents, Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor, Edward Lord Thurlow, Our Chancellor of Great Britain, to seal these Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of Great Britain; and also commanding Our most dear Son and Our faithful Counsellor George Prince of Wales; the most Reverend Father in God, Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellor John Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England; Our said Chancellor of Great Britain; Our right trusty and right wellbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Charles Earl Camden, President of Our Council; Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Granville Marquiss of Stafford, Keeper of Our Privy Seal; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousins and Counsellors James Duke of Chandos, Steward of Our Household; Charles Duke of Richmond; George Duke of Montagu, Master of Our Horse; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors James Earl of Salisbury, Chamberlain of Our Household; Henry Earl Bathurst; William; Earl of Mansfield, Our Chief Justice assigned to hold Pleas before Us; Our right trusty and well-beloved Cousins and Counsellors Thomas Viscount Weymouth, Groom of Our Stole; Richard Viscount Howe, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty; and Our right trusty and well-beloved Counsellors Francis Lord Osborne, one of Our principal Secretaries of State; and Thomas Lord Sydney, one other of Our principal Secretaries of State ; or any Three or more of them, to declare and notify this Our Royal Assent, in Our Absence in the said Higher House, in the Presence of you the said Lords and the Commons of Our Parliament, there to be assembled for that Purpose; and the Clerk of Our Parliaments to endorse the said Acts with such Terms and Words in Our Name, as is requisite, and hath been accustomed for the same, and also to enroll these Our Letters Patent and the said Acts in the Parliament Roll; and these Our Letters Patent shall be to every of them a sufficient Warrant in that Behalf: And finally, We do declare and will, that after this Our Royal Assent given and passed by these Presents, and declared and notified as is aforesaid, then and immediately the said Acts shall be taken, accepted, and admitted good, sufficient, and perfect Acts of Parliament, and Laws, to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes, and to be put in due Execution accordingly; the Continuance or Dissolution of this Our Parliament, or any other Use, Custom, Thing or Things to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.

Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Sixteenth Day of June, in the Twenty-sixth Year of Our Reign.

By the King Himself, signed with His own Hand.

"Yorke."

Then the Earl Bathurst said,

In obedience to His Majesty's Commands, and by virtue of the Commission which has been now read, We do declare and notify to you the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, That His Majesty hath given His Royal Assent to the several Acts in the Commission mentioned, and the Clerks are required to pass the same in the usual Form and Words."

Then the Clerk Assistant having received the Money Bills from the Hands of the Speaker, brought them to the Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the Titles of those and the other Bills to be passed, severally, as follow; (videlicet)

1. "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Stamp Duties on Perfumery, Hair Powder, and other Articles therein mentioned, and on Licences to be taken out by Persons uttering or vending the same."

2. "An Act for granting to His Majesty certain Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper within that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, to replace to the Revenue the Sums granted out of the same in this Session of Parliament towards the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, Exchequer, and Admiralty Court in Scotland, and Commissary Court of Edinburgh."

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy remercie ses bons Sujets accepte leur Benevolence et ainsi le veult."

3. "An Act for better securing the Duties on Starch, and for preventing Frauds on the said Duties."

4. "An Act for the more effectually, preventing the fraudulent Removal of Tobacco, and for the Ease of the fair Trader for discontinuing the Discount upon Payment on Bonds before Due, and establishing the Duty to be paid upon Tobacco of the Growth of the British Plantations and the United States of America."

5. "An Act for the Encouragement of the Southern Whale Fishery."

6. "An Act to continue and amend an Act made in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the Encouragement of the Pilchard Fishery, by allowing a farther Bounty upon Pilchards taken, cured, and exported."

7. "An Act to continue several Laws relating to the giving further Encouragement to the Importatation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the Allowance upon the Exportation of British made Gunpowder; to the further encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and to the Duties payable on Foreign Sail Cloth; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of His Majesty's Sugar Colonies, directly to Foreign Parts, in Ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to Law; to the importaing Salt from Europe into the Province of Quebec in America, to the discontinuing the Duties payable upon the Importation of Tallow, Hog's Lard, and Grease; to the permitting the free Importation of Raw Goat Skins into this Kingdom; to the repealing the Duties upon Pot and Pearl Ashes, Wood and Weed Ashes imported into Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in Lieu thereof; to the registering the Prices at which Corn is sold in the several Counties of Great Britain, and the Quantity exported and imported; and to the effectually encouraging the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum, shipped as Stores to be consumed on board Merchant Ships on their Voyages; and to the granting a Bounty upon the Importation of Hemp, and rough and undressed Flax from His Majesty's Colonies in America."

8. "An Act for augmenting and fixing the Salaries of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary and Barons of Exchequer in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland."

9. "An Act for discharging the Payment of Sentence Money and other Fees of Court, to the Judge of the Court of Admiralty in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and the Payment of Sentence Money to the Judges of the Commissary Court in Edinburgh; for granting Salaries to the Judges of the said Courts in Lieu thereof; and for regulating the Nomination of the said Judges."

10. "An Act for continuing the Salaries and Profits of the Commissioners, Clerks, and other Officers of the Stamp Office, rateable to the Land Tax in Shire Lane Ward, within the Division of Saint Clement Danes and Saint Mary-le-Strand, in the Liberty of Westminster, notwithstanding the said Office should be removed into any other Division or Place."

11. "An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex to raise Money in manner therein mentioned, for erecting a House of Correction within the said County."

12. "An Act for providing a proper Workhouse, and better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex, and for regulating the Common Wharf within the Town of Barking."

13. "An Act to enlarge the Term and alter the Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing, and widening several Roads leading from the Quay at Lymington in the County of Southampton."

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy le veult."

14. "An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Thomas Whichcote Esquire, deceased, in the County of Lincoln, in Trustees, for Sale, to pay off Incumbrances affecting the same, and for other Purposes therein mentioned."

15. "An Act to empower the Guardians of William Phillips Inge Esquire, and of his Sisters, to make or grant Building and other Leases during their respective Minorities, and also to make Exchanges of intermixed Lands in or near the Town of Birmingham in the County of Warwick."

16. "An Act for vesting the Estate comprized in the Settlement made on the Marriage of the Reverend Thomas Beaumont Clerk, deceased, in Trustees, to sell the same, and apply the Money to arise by such Sale in the Purchase of other Lands or Hereditaments, to be settled in like Manner in Lieu thereof."

17. "An Act for applying Part of the Trust Fund which was given by the Will of Doctor Ralph Freeman, for repairing or re-building the Vicarage House of the Parish of Barking in the County of Essex, in purchasing a convenient Piece of Ground in the said Parish, and in building a new Vicarage House thereon."

18. "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Downs, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Waste Lands and other commonable Places within the Parish of Basingstoke in the County of Southampton."

To these Bills the Royal Assent was pronounced, severally, by the Clerk Assistant, in these Words; (videlicet)

"Soit fait comme il est desiré."

Then the Commons withdrew.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.

The House was resumed.

Crown Lands, Message from His Majesty respecting:

The Lord Sydney acquainted the House, "That he had a Message from His Majesty under His Royal Sign Manual, which His Majesty had commanded him to deliver to their Lordships."

And the same was read by the Lord Speaker; and is as follows; (videlicet)

GEORGE R.

His Majesty being desirous that an Inquiry should be made into the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, belonging to the Crown, in order that the same may be rendered as beneficial and productive as possible, recommends it to the House of Lords to take this Object into their Consideration, and has no Doubt of their chearful Concurrence in such Provision relative thereto as they shall judge to be most for the public Benefit.

"G. R."

And the same having been again read by the Clerk:

Address thereon.

Ordered, Nemine Dissentiente, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty to return His Majesty the Thanks of this House for His most Gracious Message, and to assure His Majesty in the most dutiful Manner of the hearty Zeal of this House to testify their earnest Desire to concur in such Measures as shall be most proper to assist His Majesty in his Design of making an Inquiry into the State and Condition of the Woods, Forests and Land Revenues belonging to the Crown, and to render the same as beneficial and productive as possible.

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to His Majesty by the Lords with white Staves.

Duffield Enclosure Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by the Lord George Cavendish and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Commons called Belper Ward and Chevin Ward in the County of Derby, and certain Waste Lands within the Liberties of Duffield, Belper Hazlewood, and Mackeney, within the Parish of Duffield in the said County of Derby;" to which they desire the Concurrence of House.

Bamford's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Blackburne and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable William Bamford Esquire, and the several other Persons therein mentioned to grant Leases of certain Parts of the settled Estates in the several Counties of Lancaster and Chester, lately of or belonging to Ann Bamford Spinster deceased, upon the Terms and Restrictions therein mentioned;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same with some Amendments, to which they desire their Lordships' Concurrence.

Cricklade Enclosure Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Heneage and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Pastures, and also a Piece of Common adjoining to Chelworth Common, all within the Manors and Tything of Great and Little Chelworth, or one of them, in the Parish of Cricklade Saint Sampson, in the County of Wilts;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Newcastle Church Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Matthew White Ridley and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for pulling down and rebuilding the Church of All Saints, in the Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and for enlarging the Church Yard, and making convenient Avenues and Passages thereto;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

Swathling Road Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Jervoise Clarke Jervoise and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to continue the Term and Powers of an Act made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, so far as the same relates to the repairing and widening the Road leading from the River at Swathling through Botley, to the Turnpike Road at Sherrill Heath, in the County of Southampton;" to which they desire the Concurcurrence of this House.

The said Three Bills were, severally, read the First Time.

London Coal Meters Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Admeasurement of Coals sold by Wharf Measure, within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and between Tower Dock and Limehouse Hole, in the County of Middlesex;" was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Westminster Coal Meters Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for explaining, amending, and reducing into one Act of Parliament the several Acts passed for more effectually preventing the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Admeasurement of Coals within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of of the Duchy of Lancaster adjoining thereto, and the several Parishes of Saint Giles' in the Fields, Saint Mary-le-bon, and such Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, as lies in the County of Middlesex," was committed.

Southwark Poor Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for ascertaining and collecting the Poors Rates, and for better governing, regulating, maintaining, and employing the Poor in the Parish of Saint John Southwark, in the County of Surrey," was committed.

Southwark Paving, &c. Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages, and Places within the Manor of Southwark, otherwise called the Clink or Bishop of Winchester's Liberty, in the Parish of Saint Saviour, Southwark, in the County of Surrey; for the Removal of present and preventing of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for laying out Two new Streets, and widening and regulating several other of the Streets and Passages within the said Liberty; for discontinuing the Passage through Globe Alley; and for shutting up in the Night Time the Way leading from Clink Street, in the said Liberty, to the River Side," was committed.

North Shields Water Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale also made the like Report from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for supplying North Shields, and the Shipping resorting thereto, with Water," was committed.

Militia Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for amending and reducing into one Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Militia in that Part of Great Britain called England;" and for the Lords to be summoned:

The said Bill was accordingly read a Second Time.

Moved, "That the said Bill be committed."

After Debate,

The Question was put thereupon?

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill on Monday next; and that the Lords be summoned.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Lunæ, decimum nonum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Lunæ, 19^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Ld. Foley's Estate Bill.

The Lord Scarsdale reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the devised Estates of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Foley deceased, in the County of Worcester, in Samuel Skey Esquire, in Fee-Simple, in Exchange for another Estate of equal Value, and for effecting a Sale of other Part of the said devised Estates to the said Samuel Skey, pursuant to an Agreement made by the said Lord Foley in his Life-time, and for investing the Money arising from such Sale, in the Purchase of other Estates under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, to be settled in Lieu thereof to the same Uses," was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; that the Parties concerned had given their Consents to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Ordered, That the said Bill be engrossed.

Foreigners Consecration to Office of Bishop's Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the Time being, to consecrate to the Office of a Bishop, Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.

Ordered, That the House be put into a Committee upon the said Bill To-morrow.

Duffield Enclosure Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Commons, called Belper Ward and Chevin Ward in the County of Derby, and certain Waste Lands within the Liberties of Duffield, Belper, Hazlewood, and Makeney, within the Parish of Duffield, in the said County of Derby."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

East India Judicature Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons, accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons, accused of Offences committed in the East Indies," as requires the Servants of the East India Company, to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects; for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies, and for the more easy Proof, in certain Cases, of Deeds and Writings, executed in Great Britain or India."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill, with the Amendments, shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. with Amendments to it.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Holford and Mr. Graves:

To return the said Bill, and acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the same, with some Amendments, to which their Lordships desire their Concurrence.

Rich's Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir William Dolben and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the settled Estates of John Rich Gentleman, and Elizabeth his Wife, in the Counties of Leicester and Warwick, in Trustees, to be sold; and for applying the Money arising therefrom in Payment of Incumbrances under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, and for laying out the Surplus of such Money in the Purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the same Uses;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the same, without any Amendment.

North Shields Water Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for supplying North Shields, and the Shipping resorting thereto, with Water."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Westminster Coal Meter's Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for explaining, amending, and reducing into One Act of Parliament, the several Acts passed for more effectually preventing the Frauds and Abuses, committed in the Admeasurement of Coals, within the City and and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster adjoining thereto, and the several Parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint Mary-le-bon, and such Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn as lies in the County of Middlesex."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

London Coal Meters Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act, passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Admeasurement of Coals sold by Wharf Measure, within the City of London and the Liberties thereof, and between Tower Dock and Limehouse Hole, in the County of Middlesex."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Southwark Paving, &c. Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other Public Passages and Places, within the Manor of Southwark otherwise called the Clink or Bishop of Winchester's Liberty, in the Parish of Saint Saviour Southwark, in the County of Surrey; for the Removal of present, and preventing of future Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for laying out Two new Streets, and widening and regulating several other of the Streets and Passages within the said Liberty; for discontinuing the Passage through Globe Alley, and for shutting up in the Nighttime the Way leading from Clink Street in the said Liberty, to the River-side."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Messages to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to the Four preceding Bills.

And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of Commons, by the former Messengers:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bills, without any Amendment.

Cricklade Enclosure Bill.

Hodie 2^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the Open Common Fields, Common Meadows, and Pastures, and also a Piece of Common adjoining to Chelworth Common, all within the Manors and Tything of Great and Little Chelworth, or One of them in the Parish of Cricklade Saint Sampson, in the County of Wilts."

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet To-morrow, at the usual Time and Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Bamford's Bill.

The House proceeded to take into Consideration the Amendments made by the Commons, to the Bill, intituled, "An Act to enable William Bamford Esquire, and the several other Persons therein mentioned, to grant Leases of certain Parts of the settled Estates, in the several Counties of Lancaster and Chester, lately of or belonging to Ann Bamford Spinster deceased, upon the Terms and Restrictions therein mentioned."

And the same, being read Three Times by the Clerk, were agreed to by the House.

And a Message was sent to the House of Commons, by the former Messengers, to acquaint them therewith.

Horses Slaughtering Bill.

Ordered, That the Second Reading of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for regulating Houses or other Places "kept for the Purpose of slaughtering Horses," which stands appointed for To-morrow, be put off to Friday next.

Anglesey Coals Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in smelting Copper and Lead Ores, and in Fire Engines for draining Water out of the Copper and Lead Mines within the Isle of Anglesey."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Poor Returns Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for obliging Overseers of the Poor to make Returns upon Oath to certain Questions specified therein, relative to the State of the Poor."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Wine Duties Bill.

Ordered, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act for repealing certain Duties now payable on Wines imported, and for granting new Duties in Lieu thereof, to be collected under the Management of the Commissioners of Excise," be read a Second Time on Wednesday next, and the Lords summoned.

The Duke of Richmond laid before the House pursuant to Two Acts of the 23d and 24th Years of His present Majesty;

Dock Yards, Decrees of Commissioners for securing, delivered.

Faversham.

"Decrees and Judgement of the Commissioners empowered by His Majesty, for carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament made in the 23d Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for vesting certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in Trustees, for the further securing His Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores at Portsmouth, and for the more safe and convenient carrying on of His Majesty's Gunpowder Works and Mills, near the Town of Faversham."

Devon.

Decrees and Judgement of the Commissioners empowered by His Majesty, for carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament made in the 24th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for vesting certain Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in Trustees, for better securing His Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores, at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and also for re-vesting certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the Counties of Southampton, Cornwall, and Devon, in the former Proprietors thereof, and for other Purposes therein mentioned."

Ordnance Southampton.

Judgements and Decrees of the Commissioners empowered by His Majesty, for carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament made in the 24th Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for vesting certain Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in Trustees, for better securing His Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores, at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and also for re-vesting certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the Counties of Southampton, Cornwall, and Devon, in the former Proprietors thereof, and for other Purposes therein mentioned."

And the Titles thereof being read by the Clerk:

Ordered, That the said Papers do lie on the Table.

Militia Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the House to be put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for amending and reducing into One Act of Parliament the Laws relating to the Militia in that Part of Great Britain called England;" and for the Lords to be summoned:

The House was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee thereupon.

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and made some Amendments thereto, which he was ready to report when the House will please to receive the same."

Ordered, That the said Report be received on Wednesday next.

Wine, Accounts of imports and exports delivered.

The House being informed, "That Mr. Irving from the Commissioners of the Customs attended:"

He was called in, and delivered at the Bar, pursuant to an Address of the 13th of this instant June,

"An Account of the Quantities of Wines imported into England from Christmas 1735 to Christmas 1785."

Also, "An Account of the Quantities of Port Wines imported into that Part of Great Britain called England for Fifty Years last past, (videlicet) from Christmas 1735 to Christmas 1785."

And also, "An Account of the Quantity of Wines exported from England from Christmas 1736 to Christmas 1785, both inclusive."

And then he withdrew.

And the Titles thereof being read by the Clerk:

Ordered, That the said Accounts do lie on the Table.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Martis, vicesimum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.

DIE Martis, 20^o Junii 1786.

Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præsentes fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

The Earl Bathurst sat Speaker, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission.

Ld. Foley's Estate Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for vesting Part of the devised Estates of the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Foley, deceased, in the County of Worcester, in Samuel Skey Esquire, in Fee-simple, in Exchange for another Estate of equal Value, and for effecting a Sale of other Part of the said devised Estates to the said Samuel Skey, pursuant to an Agreement made by the said Lord Foley in his Life-time, and for investing the Money arising from such Sale in the Purchase of other Estates, under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, to be settled in Lieu thereof to the same Uses."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Message to H. C. with it.

A Message was sent to the House of Commons, by Mr. Holford and Mr. Graves:

To carry down the said Bill, and desire their Concurrence thereto.

Poor Returns Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for obliging Overseers of the Poor to make Returns upon Oath to certain Questions specified therein, relative to the State of the Poor."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Anglesey Coals Bill:

Hodie 3^a vice lecta est Billa, intituled, "An Act for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in smelting Copper and Lead Ores, and in Fire Engines for draining Water out of the Copper and Lead Mines within the Isle of Anglesey."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill shall pass?"

It was resolved in the Affirmative.

Messages to H. C. that the Lords have agreed to the Two preceding Bills.

And Messages were, severally, sent to the House of Commons, by the former Messengers:

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the said Bills, without any Amendment.

Foreigners Consecration to Office of a Bishop, Bill.

The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act to empower the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Archbishop of York, for the Time being, to consecrate to the Office of a Bishop, Persons being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of His Majesty's Dominions."

After some Time, the House was resumed:

And the Lord Scarsdale reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and made One Amendment thereto, which he was ready to report when the House will please to receive the same."

Ordered, That the said Report be received Tomorrow.

Bristol Bridges Bill.

The Order of the Day being read for the further Consideration of the Bill, intituled, "An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for re-building, widening, and enlarging the Bridge over the River Avon in the City of Bristol, and erecting a temporary Bridge adjoining, and for widening the Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Passages leading thereto, and for building another Bridge over some other Part of the said River within the said City (if necessary), and for opening proper Ways and Passages thereto, and for making a Way from the Bridge already built to Temple Street in the said City."

Counsel were called in.

And the House being informed, "That the Parties had come to a Compromise:"

The Counsel were directed to withdraw.

Ordered, That the said Bill be committed to the Consideration of the Lords following:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet Tomorrow at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, in the Prince's Lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

Duffield, &c. Enclosure Bill.

The Lord Hawke reported from the Lords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for dividing and enclosing certain Commons called Belper Ward and Chevin Ward in the County of Derby, and certain Waste Lands within the Liberties of Duffield, Belper, Hazlewood, and Makeney, within the Parish of Duffield in the said County of Derby," was committed: "That they had considered the said Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, which were found to be true; that the Parties concerned had given their Consents to the Satisfaction of the Committee; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the same to the House, without any Amendment."

Northern Light Houses Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Dempster and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for erecting certain Light-houses in the Northern Parts of Great Britain;" to which they desire the Concurrence of this House.

The said Bill was read the First Time.

East India Judicature Bill.

A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Adam Ferguson and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the further Regulation of the Trial of Persons accused of certain Offences committed in the East Indies; for repealing so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the better Regulation and Management of the Affairs of the East India Company, and of the British Possessions in India, and for establishing a Court of Judicature for the more speedy and effectual Trial of Persons accused of Offences committed in the East Indies," as requires the Servants of the East India Company to deliver Inventories of their Estates and Effects; for rendering the Laws more effectual against Persons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies; and for the more easy Proof, in certain Cases, of Deeds and Writings executed in Great Britain or India;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to their Lordships' Amendments made thereto.

Adjourn.

Comes Bathurst declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque ad et in diem Mercurii, vicesimum primum diem instantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Auroræ, Dominis sic decernentibus.