List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1797

English, Scottish, Irish and Great Britain legislation
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This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1797. For acts passed until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.

For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. For acts of the devolved parliaments and assemblies in the United Kingdom, see the list of acts of the Scottish Parliament, the list of acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the list of acts and measures of Senedd Cymru; see also the list of acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

The number shown after each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern convention is to use Arabic numerals in citations (thus "41 Geo. 3" rather than "41 Geo. III"). Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3".

Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain did not have a short title; however, some of these acts have subsequently been given a short title by acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (such as the Short Titles Act 1896).

From the session 38 Geo. 3 onwards, "public acts" were separated into "public general acts" and "public local and personal acts".


37 Geo. 3

Continuing the first session of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 27 September 1796 until 20 July 1797.

Public acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
Bank of England Notes under 5l Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 28
3 March 1797
An act to remove doubts respecting promissory notes of the governor and company of the bank of England for payment of sums of money under five pounds.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Bodmin Canal Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 29
3 March 1797
An act for making and maintaining a navigable canal from Guinea Port, in the parish of St. Breock, in the county of Cornwall, to Dunmeer Bridge, in the parish of Bodmin, in the said county; and also a certain collateral cut from Cotton Wood, to or near to Ruthern Bridge, in the said parish of Bodmin.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1872)
37 Geo. 3. c. 30
3 March 1797
An act for enabling the company of proprietors of the Grantham canal navigation to finish and complete the same, and the collateral cut to communicate therewith; and for amending the act of parliament, passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the said canal and collateral cut.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
East India Company Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 31
7 March 1797
An act to enable the East India company to raise money by further increasing their capital stock, and to extend the provisions now existing respecting the present stock of the company to the said increased stock.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Negotiation of Notes and Bills Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 32
10 March 1797
An act to suspend, for a limited time, the operation of two acts of the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for retraining the negociation of promissory notes, and inland bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Mutiny Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 33
10 March 1797
An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
37 Geo. 3. c. 34
24 March 1797
An act for the regulation of his Majesty's marine forces while on shore.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Land Tax (No. 1) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 35
24 March 1797
An act for appointing commissioners for putting in execution an act of this session of parliament, intituled, "An act for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
37 Geo. 3. c. 36
24 March 1797
An act to enable the company of proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, to make a navigable canal from and out of a certain branch of their said navigation, called, The Caldon Canal, at or near Endon, to or near the town of Leek, in the county of Stafford; and also a reservoir for supplying the several canals of the said company with water.
Trade with United States Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 37
27 March 1797
An act to continue the laws now in force for regulating the trade between the subjects of his Majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the United States of America so far as the same relate to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the countries belonging to the said United States.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Militia Pay Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 38
27 March 1797
An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Manning of the Army and Navy Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 39
27 March 1797
An act to explain and amend an act made in this present session of parliament, intituled, "An act for raising a certain number of men in the several counties, stewartries, royal burghs, and towns, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of his Majesty's army and navy."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Bank (Scotland) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 40
27 March 1797
An act to allow the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount, for a limited time; and for indemnifying all persons who have issued notes for small sums of money in that part of the united kingdom.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Quartering of Soldiers Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 41
24 April 1797
An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Northampton (Improvement) Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 42
24 April 1797
An act for altering and amending an act, passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for paving, cleansing, lighting and watching, the town of Northampton, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obstructions, and annoyances therein; and for continuing the term of certain tolls by the said act granted.
Plymouth Dock Chapel Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 43
24 April 1797
An act for building a new chapel at Plymouth dock, in the parish of Stoke Damerel, in the county of Devon.
Ipswich (Improvement, etc.) Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 44
24 April 1797
An act for amending and rendering more effectual an act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, for paving, lighting, cleansing, and otherwise improving the town of Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obstructions, and annoyances therein.
Restriction on Cash Payments Act 1797
or the Bank Restriction Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 45
3 May 1797
An Act for confirming and continuing for a limited time, the restriction contained in the minute of council of the twenty-fifth of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, on payments of cash by the bank.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
National Debt Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 46
3 May 1797
An act for making certain annuities, created by the parliament of the kingdom of Ireland, transferrable, and the dividends thereon payable, at the bank of England; and for the better security of the proprietors of such annuities, and of the governor and company of the bank of England.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1870)
John Yeldham's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 47
3 May 1797
An act for discharging the estates of John Yeldham, esquire, from certain demands of the crown, upon the conditions therein mentioned.
37 Geo. 3. c. 48
3 May 1797
An act for altering, amending, and rendering more effectual two acts, made in the eleventh and fifteenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for the regulation and improvement of the fisheries in the river Tweed, and the rivers and streams running into the same, and also within the mouth or entrance of the said river.
(Repealed by River Tweed Fisheries Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. liv))
Eyemouth Harbour Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 49
3 May 1797
An act for repairing, improving, and maintaining the harbour of Eyemouth in the county of Berwick.
Barmouth Harbour Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 50
3 May 1797
An act for repairing, deepening, enlarging, and preserving, the harbour of Barmouth, in the county of Merioneth.
37 Geo. 3. c. 51
3 May 1797
An act for enabling the company of proprietors of the Leicester navigation to finish and complete their several works, and to discharge the debts contrasted in the making thereof; and for amending an act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, for making the said navigation, and several other works in such acts mentioned.
Fife Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 52
3 May 1797
An act for regulating and converting the statute labour in the county of Fife; and for more effectually making and repairing the highways within the said county.
Navy Pay, etc. Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 53
9 May 1797
An act for carrying into execution his Majesty's order in council of the third day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for an increase in pay and provisions to the seamen and marines serving in his Majesty's navy; and to amend so much of an act made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present majesty, as enables petty officers and seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines, and marines, to allot part of their pay for the maintenance of their wives, children, or mothers.
(Repealed by Pay of the Navy Act 1830)
37 Geo. 3. c. 54
9 May 1797
An act for authorising the company of proprietors of the Gloucester and Berkeley canal navigation to vary the line of a certain part of the said canal, so as to render the execution thereof more easy, expeditious, and less expensive; and for altering and amending the act, passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, for mailing the said canal.
Millbrooke Parish Church, Southampton Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 55
9 May 1797
An act for taking down and rebuilding the parish church of Milbrooke[a] in the county of Southampton, and for enlarging the church yard of the said parish.
37 Geo. 3. c. 56
9 May 1797
An act to amend an act made in the twentieth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for building a bridge across the river Wye, between Whitney and Clifford, in the county of Hereford.
National Debt (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 57
11 May 1797
An act for raising the sum of fourteen millions five hundred thousand pounds by way of annuities.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1870)
Bridgnorth Bridge Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 58
11 May 1797
An act for repairing or rebuilding the bridge over the river Severn, in the town of Bridgnorth, in the county of Salop, and for opening convenient avenues thereto.
Loan to Emperor of Germany Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 59
25 May 1797
An act for guaranteeing the payment of the dividends on a loan of one million six hundred and twenty thousand pounds to the emperor of Germany, and the regular redemption of the capital to be created thereby; for enabling the governor and company of the bank of England to retain the sums granted for repaying advances made by them for the publick service; and for repaying to the contributors to the loans of fourteen millions five hundred thousand pounds, and one million six hundred and twenty thousand pounds, the excess of their deposits beyond the proportional deposits to the said loans.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Stamps Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 60
25 May 1797
An act to amend an act, made in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties on indentures of clerkships to solicitors and attornies in any of the courts in England therein mentioned."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Negotiation of Notes and Bills (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 61
25 May 1797
An act to revive, amend, and continue, for a limited time, an act passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, "An act to suspend, for a limited time, the operation of two acts of the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negociation of promissory notes and inland bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Banks (Scotland) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 62
25 May 1797
An act to revive and continue, for a limited time, and amend an act, passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, "An act to allow the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount, for a limited time; and for indemnifying all persons who have issued notes for small sums of money in that part of the united kingdom."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Foreign Ships Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 63
25 May 1797
An act for granting to foreign ships put under his Majesty's protection, the privileges of prize ships, under certain regulations and restrictions; and for allowing aliens in foreign colonies surrendered to his Majesty, to exercise the occupations of merchants or factors.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Indemnity to Governors of West Indies Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 64
25 May 1797
An act for indemnifying governors, lieutenant governors, and persons acting as such, in the West India islands, who have permitted the importation and exportation of goods and commodities in foreign bottoms.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Middlesex County Rates Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 65
25 May 1797
An act for empowering the justices of the peace for the county of Middlesex, at their general or quarter sessions of the peace, to make a fair and equal county rate for the said county.
Kent Fortifications Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 66
25 May 1797
An act for revesting certain lands, tenements and hereditaments, in the county of Kent, in the former proprietors thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Lincoln Drainage Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 67
25 May 1797
An act to embank and drain the open and unembanked lands and grounds lying between The Dales Head Dyke and the river Witham, in the several townships or hamlets and parishes of Walcot, Timberland, Thorpe, Timberland, Martin, Linwood ,and Blankney, all in the county of Lincoln.
Whittlesey Drainage Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 68
25 May 1797
An act for charging the fen lands and low grounds within the second, third, fourth, and fifth districts, in the bounds and precincts of Whittlesey in the Isle of Ely, and county of Cambridge, with further taxes for discharging the debts incurred by the commissioners for the said districts respectively, under certain acts passed in the twenty-second year of King George the Second, and in the twelfth year of his present Majesty; and for better improving, supporting, and preserving, the drainage of the said lands and grounds.
Taxes Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 69
6 June 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties on the amount of certain duties under the management of the commissioners for the affairs of taxes.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
37 Geo. 3. c. 70
6 June 1797
An Act for the better Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in His Majesty’s Forces by Sea or Land from their Duty and Allegiance to His Majesty, or to incite them to Mutiny or Disobedience.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998)
37 Geo. 3. c. 71
6 June 1797
An Act for more effectually restraining Intercourse with the Crews of certain of His Majesty's Ships now in a State of Mutiny and Rebellion and for the more effectual Suppression of such Mutiny and Rebellion.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Importation Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 72
6 June 1797
An act for prohibiting the importation of cambricks and French lawns into this kingdom, not being of the manufacture of Ireland, except for the purpose of being warehoused for exportation.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Desertion of Seamen Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 73
6 June 1797
An act for preventing the desertion of seamen from British merchant ships trading to his Majesty's colonies and plantations in the West Indies.
(Repealed by Merchant Seamen Act 1835)
East India Company (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 74
6 June 1797
An act to enable the East India company to pay the expences of two regiments of infantry to be raised for the defence and protection of the house and warehouses of the said company, and for such publick services as are mentioned in an act made in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for encouraging and disciplining such corps or companies of men as shall voluntarily enroll themselves for the defence of their counties, towns, or coasts, or for the general defence of the kingdom, during the present war."[b]
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Tower Hamlets Militia Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 75
6 June 1797
An act to enable hit Majesty to draw out and embody the militia forces of the Tower Hamlets, in the county of Middlesex.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Bounty on Exportation Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 76
6 June 1797
An act for disallowing the bounty on the exportation to Iceland of sail cloth or canvas of the manufacture of Great Britain, for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Free Ports Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 77
6 June 1797
An act for making the port of San Josef, in the island of Trinidad a freeport.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Pilots Liverpool Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 78
6 June 1797
An act for the better regulation and encouragement of pilots for the con ducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port of Liverpool.
Stepney Improvements, Poor Relief Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 79
6 June 1797
An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An act more effectually to enable the parishioners of the parish of Christ Church, in the county of Middlesex, to purchase, hire, or erect a workhouse for the employing and maintaining the poor of the said parish, and for the more effectual support and employment of the poor therein; and also an act, passed in the eighteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, for amending the said first mentioned act; and for enlarging the powers of the said acts, and altering the manner of rating to the poor of the said parish, and better effectuating other regulations relative thereto.
Saint Pancras Improvements, etc. Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 80
6 June 1797
An act for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and otherwise improving, all such streets and other publick passages, as are or shall be made upon a certain piece of ground, belonging to Elizabeth Doughty, spinster, situate in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex.
37 Geo. 3. c. 81
6 June 1797
An act to enable the company of proprietors of the navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, to extend several branches of the canal from and out of their said navigation.
Subscriptions to Loan Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 82
19 June 1797
An act for allowing certain discounts to the contributors of eighteen millions raised by annuities by an act of the present session of parliament, who shall have completed their contributions on or before the days therein mentioned.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Exportation and Importation Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 83
19 June 1797
An act to repeal so much of an act, passed in the present session of parliament, as prohibits the exportation and permits the importation, duty free, of several sorts of corn, and other articles made thereof.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Importation (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 84
19 June 1797
An act to permit goods, the product or manufacture of certain places within the Levant or Mediterranean Seas, to be imported into Great Britain, in British or foreign vessels, from any place whatsoever, for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Relief of Prisoners Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 85
19 June 1797
An act to amend so much of an act, made in the thirty-second year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, "An act for the 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," as relates to the weekly sums thereby directed to be paid to prisoners in execution for debt, in the cases therein mentioned.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Ramsgate Harbour Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 86
19 June 1797
An act for amending an act, passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for the maintenance and improvement of the harbour of Ramsgate, in the county of Kent; and for cleansing, amending, and preserving, the haven of Sandwich in the same county.
Great Tower Hill Improvement Act 1797[3]
37 Geo. 3. c. 87
19 June 1797
An act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, watering, improving, and keeping in repair, Great Tower Hill; and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances within the same.
Waterbeach Level (Cambridge, Isle of Ely) Drainage Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 88
19 June 1797
An act to alter, amend, and render more effectual, an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An act for the effectual draining and preservation of Waterbeach Level, in the county of Cambridge, and to establish an agreement made between the lord of the manor of Waterbeach cum Denny, and the commoners within the said manor; and also to raise a further sum of money for the improvement and security of the said level.
Burnt Fen (Northampton) Drainage Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 89
19 June 1797
An act to amend and render more effectual an act, made in the thirty-third year of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An act for draining and preserving certain fen lands and low grounds in the Isle of Ely and counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, between Mildenhall river south, Plant Load and Brandon river north, bounded on the west by the river Ouse, and on the east by Winter Load, Earswell Brook, and the Hard Lands of Mildenhall; and for empowering the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the company of conservators of the great level of the fens, commonly called Bedford Level, to sell certain fen lands, lying within the limits aforesaid, commonly called Invested Lands, so far as relates to the several fen lands and low grounds lying in the first district described in the said act; and also to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for amending and rendering more effectual the said first recited act.
Stamps (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 90
22 June 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties on the several matters therein mentioned, and for better securing the duties on certificates to be taken out by solicitors, attornies, and others, practising in certain courts of justice in Great Britain.
(Repealed by Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870)
Restrictions on Cash Payments Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 91
22 June 1797
An act to continue for a limited time, an act, made in this present session of parliament, intituled, "An act for confirming and continuing, for a limited time, the restriction contained in the minute of council of the twenty-sixth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, on payments of cash by the bank, under certain regulations and restrictions."
Aliens Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 92
22 June 1797
An act to continue for a limited time an act, made in the thirty-third year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, "An act for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or resident therein, in certain cases."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Indemnity Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 93
22 June 1797
An act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to obtain their certificates of enrolment, admission, or registry, in the several courts of this kingdom.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Bounty on Pilchards Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 94
22 June 1797
An act to continue an act, made in the thirty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of the pilchard fishery, by allowing a further bounty upon pilchards taken cured and exported.
(Repealed by Sea Fisheries Act 1868)
Hampshire and Wiltshire Fisheries Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 95
22 June 1797
An act to amend two acts made in the fourth year of the reign of Queen Anne, and the first year of the reign of King George the First, for the preservation of salmon and other fish in the rivers within the counties of Southampton and Wilts.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Isle of Ely Drainage Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 96
22 June 1797
An act for amending and rendering more effectual an act, passed in the thirteenth year of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, "An act for the effectual draining and preservation of Haddenham Level in the Isle of Ely; and for more effectually draining and preserving the fen lands and low grounds lying within the said Level.
Treaty with United States Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 97
4 July 1797
An act for carrying into execution the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded between his Majesty and the united states of America.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Assise and Making of Bread, London Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 98
4 July 1797
An act to amend and render more effectual an act, made in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An act for the due making of bread, and to regulate the price and assize thereof, and to punish persons who shall adulterate meal, flour, or bread," so far as the same relates to the assize and making of bread to be sold in the city of London, and the liberties thereof, and within the weekly bills of mortality, and within ten miles of the Royal Exchange.
(Repealed by London Bread Trade Act 1815 (55 Geo. 3. c. xcix))
Continuance of Laws Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 99
4 July 1797
An act to revive and continue the bounties granted by an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for encouraging the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe; to continue so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, as permits the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandizes, in foreign ships, into and from the port of Saint John's in the island of Antigua; and so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, as permits sir William Bishop, George Bishop, and Argles Bishop, to carry on the manufacture of Maidstone geneva; and also so much of an act made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for better securing the duties on glass, as was to continue for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
37 Geo. 3. c. 100
4 July 1797
An act for extending the Monmouthshire canal navigation; and for explaining an act, passed is the thirty-second year of the reign of his present Majesty, for making the said canal.
Aberdeen Harbour Improvement Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 101
4 July 1797
An act for enlarging and improving the harbour of Aberdeen, for building new quays, wharfs, and docks, and for making new roads and passages, and widening others leading to and from the said harbour.
Scotch Distilleries Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 102
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties on distilleries in the several parts of the highlands of Scotland herein particularly described, for a limited time; and for regulating the duties on distillers in the respective districts in Scotland.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Militia Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 103
19 July 1797
An act to raise and embody a militia force in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Slave Trade Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 104
19 July 1797
An act for regulating the shipping and carrying of slaves in British vessels from the coast of Ahicz.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
House Duties Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 105
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty several additional duties on inhabited bouses.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Duties on Horses Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 106
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties on certain horses, before charged with a duty of two shillings by an act of the thirty-sixth year of his present Majesty's reign, and on mules.
(Repealed by House Tax Act 1803)
Duties on Servants Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 107
19 July 1797
An all for granting to his Majesty additional duties on male servants.
(Repealed by House Tax Act 1803)
37 Geo. 3. c. 108
19 July 1797
An Act for granting to his Majesty certain duties on clocks and watches.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Manning of the Navy, etc. Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 109
19 July 1797
An act to amend an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An act for the encouragement of seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning his Majesty's navy;" and for making further provision for those purposes.
(Repealed by Naval Prize Acts Repeal Act 1864)
Customs Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 110
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties of customs on certain goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into, exported from, or carried coastwise; and on pepper to be used and consumed in this kingdom.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Stamps (No. 3) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 111
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty an additional stamp duty on deeds.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Relief of Insolvent Debtors Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 112
19 July 1797
An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Lottery Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 113
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money, to he raised by a lottery.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Loans or Exchequer Bills Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 114
19 July 1797
An act for raising a certain sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
National Debt (No. 3) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 115
19 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty the sum of two hundred thousand pounds, to be issued and paid to the governor and company of the bank of England, to be by them placed to the account of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Militia Allowances Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 116
19 July 1797
An act for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the militia in time of peace.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Trade with India Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 117
19 July 1797
An act for regulating the trade to be carried on with the British possessions in India, by the ships of nations in amity with his Majesty,
(Repealed by Navigation Act 1849)
Slave Trade (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 118
19 July 1797
An act for regulating the height between decks of vessels entered outwards for the purpose of carrying slaves from the coast of Africa.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Negroes Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 119
19 July 1797
An act to repeal so much of an act made in the fifth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intitled, "An act for the more easy recovery of debts in his Majesty's plantations and colonies in America,"[c] as makes negroes chattels for the payment of debts.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Negotiations of Bills and Notes Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 120
19 July 1797
An act further to continue an act, made in this present session of parliament, intituled, "An act to suspend, for a limited time, the operation of two acts of the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negociation of promissory notes and inland bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England; as revived, amended, and continued, by a subsequent act of this session, passed for the purpose of reviving, amending, and continuing the same; and also for continuing such subsequent act.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Southern Whale Fisheries Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 121
19 July 1797
An act to explain an act passed in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, "An act for further encouraging and regulating the southern whale fisheries."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Forgery Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 122
19 July 1797
An act for the better preventing the forging or counterfeiting the names of witnesses to letters of attorney, or other authorities or instruments, for the transfer of stocks or funds, which now are, or by any act or acts of parliament shall hereafter be made, transferrable at the bank of England; or for the transfer of any part of the capital Stock of the governor and company of the bank of England called Bank Stock; or for the transfer of any part of the capital stock, or any stocks or funds under the management of the South Sea company; or for the transfer of any part of the capital stock of the East India company; or for the receipt of dividends upon any of such stocks or funds.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1870)
37 Geo. 3. c. 123
19 July 1797
An act for more effectually preventing the administering or taking of unlawful oaths.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981)
Bankrupts Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 124
19 July 1797
An act to make perpetual an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An act to prevent the committing of frauds by bankrupts."
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
Exportation Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 125
19 July 1797
An act for authorising his Majesty to permit the exportation of an additional quantity of wheat, wheat meal, or flour, rye, barley, or malt, or bread, biscuit, or pease, to the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, for the maintenance and use of the inhabitants of the said islands, for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
37 Geo. 3. c. 126
19 July 1797
An act to prevent the counterfeiting any copper coin in this realm made, or to be made, current by proclamation, or any foreign gold or silver coin; and to prevent the bringing into this realm, or uttering, any counterfeit foreign gold or silver coin.
(Repealed by Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861)
37 Geo. 3. c. 127
19 July 1797
An Act to shorten the Time now required for giving Notice of the Royal Intention of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, that the Parliament shall meet and be holden for the Dispatch of Business, and more effectually to provide for the Meeting of Parliament in the case of a Demise of the Crown.
Land Tax (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 128
19 July 1797
An act for assessing the commissioners of the tax office, and their officers, to the land tax, in the district called offices executed in Westminster hall; notwithstanding the removal of the said tax office into Somerset Place.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Weymouth Water Supply Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 129
19 July 1797
An act for supplying the borough and town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and the parts adjacent, in the county of Dorset, with water.
37 Geo. 3. c. 130
19 July 1797
An act for discontinuing the new harbour of Rye, in the county of Sussex, and for repealing several acts relating thereto, and for providing for the discharge of a debt accrued on account thereof; and for making reparations for certain losses; and for the improvement of the old harbour of Rye.
Burlsedon Bridge, Southampton Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 131
19 July 1797
An act for building a bridge over Bursledon river, at or near the ferry of Bursledon, in the county of Southampton; and for making a road from the intended bridge over the river Itchen, at or near Northam, within the liberties of the town and county of the town of Southampton, to the said bridge, and from thence to Titchfield, in the said county of Southampton.
37 Geo. 3. c. 132
19 July 1797
An act for enlarging, deepening, improving, and maintaining the harbour of Saltcoats, in the county of Ayr.
37 Geo. 3. c. 133
19 July 1797
An act for enabling Thomas Macklin to dispose of his collection of modern paintings, as now exhibited at his gallery in Fleet-street, by way of chance.
Duty on Horses Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 134
20 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty a further additional duty on horses kept and used for the purpose of riding, or of drawing certain carriages therein mentioned.
(Repealed by House Tax Act 1803)
Legacy Duty Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 135
20 July 1797
An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the thirty-sixth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, "An act for repealing certain duties on legacies, and shares of personal estate, and for granting other duties thereon, in certain cases.
(Repealed by Court of Chancery (Funds) Act 1872)
Stamps (No. 4) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 136
20 July 1797
An act to enable the commissioners of stamp duties to stamp deeds, and other instruments, bills of exchange, promissory and other notes, in the cases therein mentioned.
(Repealed by Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870)
Bank (Scotland) (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 137
20 July 1797
An act to continue an act made in this present session of parliament, intituled, "An act tor revive and continue for a limited time, and amend an act, passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, 'An act to allow the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount, for a limited time; and for indemnifying all persons who have issued notes for small sums of money in that part of the united kingdom,'" for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Parliamentary Elections (Scotland) Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 138
20 July 1797
An act to amend an act, made in the twenty-second year of the reign of his present Masefty, intituled, "An act for better securing the freedom of elections of members to serve in parliament, by disabling certain officers, employed in the collection or management of his Majesty's revenues, from giving their votes at such elections, by extending the provision thereof to persons voting in any meeting of freeholders for preses or clerk, or on any question relative to the adjustment of the roll of freeholders, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and for empowering freeholders to administer the oath of trust and possession to persons offering to vote for preses and clerks.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Provisional Cavalry Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 139
20 July 1797
An act for allowing a further time for carrying into execution certain powers contained in two acts of the present session of parliament, for raising a provisional cavalry, so far as the same relate to the registering and accepting of volunteers in lieu of the said provisional cavalry, in such counties, and subdivisions of counties, wherein the said acts have not been carried into execution.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Naval Courts-martial Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 140
20 July 1797
An act to enable his Majesty more easily and effectually to grant conditional pardons to persons under sentence by naval courts martial, and to regulate imprisonment under such sentences.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Postage Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 141
20 July 1797
An act to enable the deputy of the clerk of the house of commons, for the time being, to send and receive letters and packets free from the duty of postage.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1861)
East India Act 1797[2]
37 Geo. 3. c. 142
20 July 1797
An act for the better administration of justice at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay; and for preventing British subjects from being concerned in loans to the native princes in India.
37 Geo. 3. c. 143
20 July 1797
An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the more effectual Prevention of the use of defective Weights, and of false and unequal Balances."[d]
37 Geo. 3. c. 144
20 July 1797
An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven; for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament; and for making forth duplicates of exchequer bills, lottery tickets, certificates, receipts, annuity orders, or other orders, lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Rochdale and Bury Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 145
27 September 1796[e]
 
37 Geo. 3. c. 146
27 September 1796[e]
An act for amending, widening, turning, altering, improving, and keeping in repair, the road from or near the guide post, at or near a certain place, called Sudden Bridge, in the township of Castleton, within the parish of Rochdale, in the county palatine of Lancaster, to the northeasterly end of a certain street or place, in the town of Bury, within the parish of Bury, in the said county, called Clerk Street; and for making a new road from and out of the said road, at or near a place called Captain Fold, in the township of Castleton aforesaid, to communicate as well with the turnpike road leading from the town of Rochdale to the town of Manchester, in the said county, as also with the Rochdale canal, at or near a place called The Blue Pitts, in the said township of Castleton.
Norwich and North Walsham Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 147
27 September 1796[e]
 
Farnhurst Chichester and Delkey Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 148
27 September 1796[e]
 
York and Boroughbridge Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 149
27 September 1796[e]
 
Stockbridge Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 150
27 September 1796[e]
 
Wem and Bron-y-Garth Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 151
27 September 1796[e]
 
Stratford and Long Compton Hill Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 152
27 September 1796[e]
 
Kirkcudbright Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 153
27 September 1796[e]
 
Devizes Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 154
27 September 1796[e]
 
Chatham Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 155
27 September 1796[e]
 
37 Geo. 3. c. 156
27 September 1796[e]
 
37 Geo. 3. c. 157
27 September 1796[e]
 
Liverpool Prescot and Warrington Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 158
27 September 1796[e]
 
Wakefield and Sheffield Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 159
27 September 1796[e]
 
Halifax and Sheffield Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 160
27 September 1796[e]
 
Ayr (County) Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 162
27 September 1796[e]
 
West Cowgate and Alemouth Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 163
27 September 1796[e]
 
Perth and Crieff Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 164
27 September 1796[e]
 
Kirkby Lonsdale and Milnthorpe Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 165
27 September 1796[e]
 
Clackmannan and Perth Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 166
27 September 1796[e]
 
Wellingborough and Northampton Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 167
27 September 1796[e]
 
Lincoln (City) Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 168
27 September 1796[e]
 
Basingstoke Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 169
27 September 1796[e]
 
Adderbury and Oxford Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 170
27 September 1796[e]
 
Kinross and Alloa Road Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 171
27 September 1796[e]
 
Salop Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 172
27 September 1796[e]
 
37 Geo. 3. c. 173
27 September 1796[e]
 
Bury and Bolton Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 174
27 September 1796[e]
 
Frome Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 175
27 September 1796[e]
 
Leominster Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 176
27 September 1796[e]
 
Newport Pagnel Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 177
27 September 1796[e]
 
Bristol Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 178
27 September 1796[e]
 
Cambridge and Arrington Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 179
27 September 1796[e]
 
Fife (Country) Roads Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 180
27 September 1796[e]
 
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  2. ^ (34 Geo. 3. c. 31)
  3. ^ Recovery of Debts in American Plantations Act 1731 (5 Geo. 2. c. 7)
  4. ^ Weights and Measures Act 1795
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Private acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
High-Ham and Ham Down (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 14
28 December 1796
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing the open commonable lands, and fields, within the parish of High-ham, in the county of Somerset, and also a certain open or commonable field called, Ham Down, lying partly within the said parish of High-ham and partly within the parish of Huish Episcopi in the same county.
Weston Zoyland (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 15
28 December 1796
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the open and commonable pastures, within the parish oi Weston Zoyland, in the county of Somerset.
Street (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 16
28 December 1796
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, a certain parcel or tract of commonable ground, formerly part of King's Sedgmoor, lying in the parish of Street, in the county of Somerset; and also for dividing and allotting a certain parcel or tract of waste land, called Turf Moor, in the parish of Street aforesaid.
Naturalization of Phillipp Muntz Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 17
28 December 1796
An act for naturalizing Phillipp Frederick Muntz.
William Bright's Divorce Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 18
30 December 1796
An act to dissolve the marriage of William Bright, with Hannah Lockwood his now wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Charterhouse Hospital Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 19
3 March 1797
An act to enable the governors of the hospital of King James, founded in Charter House, to sell and convey a messuage, cottages, and divers lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in Fulstow Marsh, Chappel, and Tetney, in the county of Lincoln; and for laying out the money arising from such sale in the purchase of other lands and tenements, or hereditaments, for the benefit of the said hospital.
37 Geo. 3. c. 20
3 March 1797
An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of her late majesty, Queen Anne, intituled, "An act for augmenting the number of canons residentiary in the cathedral church of Litchfield, and for improving the deanry and prebends of the said cathedral,"[a] and to make further provision for the canons residentiary in the said cathedral church, and an addition to the fabrick fund thereof.
Exton and Cutcombe (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 21
3 March 1797
An act for dividing allotting, and enclosing, the several commons and waste lands, within the parish of Exton, in the county of Somerset, and also within the several manors of Cutcombe Mohun, and Cutcombe Rawleigh, in the parish of Cutcombe, in the same county.
Marquis of Lansdowne Relief Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 22
27 September 1796[b]
An ad to relieve William marquis of Lansdown from certain disabilities in consequence of his having sat and voted in the house of peers without being duly qualified, by taking the oaths and making the declaration prescribed by law, and subscribing the same respectively.
Dunton (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 23
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Jacob Bagelmann, John Siffken and George Tatter Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 24
27 September 1796[b]
An act for naturalizing Jacob Bagelmann, John Siffken, and George Lewis Christian Tatter.
Swayfield and Corby (Lincolnshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 25
27 September 1796[b]
 
Campton-cum-Shefford (Lincolnshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 26
27 September 1796[b]
 
Harewood (Yorkshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 27
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing and enclosing several open fields, and meadow and pasture ground, and several moors or commons, within the manor and parish of Harewood, in the county of York.
Naturalization of Henry Wienhold Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 28
27 September 1796[b]
An act for naturalizing Henry Wienholt.
Naturalization of Anthony Libotton Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 29
27 September 1796[b]
An act for naturalizing Anthony Henry Libotton.
Puriton (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 30
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the commons and waste lands, within the parish of Puriton, in the county of Somerset.
Huish Episcopi (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 31
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the open and commonable lands and fields, within the parish of Huish Episcopi, in the county of Somerset.
Othery (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 32
27 September 1796[b]
 
Denny Martin: change of name and arms to Fairfax.
37 Geo. 3. c. 33
27 September 1796[b]
An act to enable Denny Martin, doctor !n divinity, to take, use, and bear, the surname and arms of Fairfax, pursuant to the will of the right honourable Thomas lord Fairfax deceased.
Naturalization of Peter Runquist Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 34
27 September 1796[b]
An act for naturalizing Peter Andrew Runquist.
Tring (Hertfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 35
27 September 1796[b]
 
Barningham (Suffolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 36
27 September 1796[b]
 
Acle (Norfolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 37
27 September 1796[b]
 
Hitcham Rectory (Buckinghamshire) and Lord Grenville's estate: exchange of glebe lands for others.
37 Geo. 3. c. 38
27 September 1796[b]
 
Arundel Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 39
27 September 1796[b]
An act to enable the trustees, to be therein named, to make exchange of certain estates comprised in the act of the third of Charles the First,[c] for entailing the castle and manor of Arundel, in the county of Sussex, and certain other estates in the laid act mentioned.
Arundel manor enfranchisement and sale of tithes.
37 Geo. 3. c. 40
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sawley and Winksley (Yorkshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 41
27 September 1796[b]
 
Wing (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 42
27 September 1796[b]
 
Halton Moor (Lancashire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 43
27 September 1796[b]
 
Hornby (Lancashire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 44
27 September 1796[b]
 
Etwall (Derbyshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 45
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing and enclosing the several open common fields, meadows, and pastures, commons and waste grounds, within the parish of Etwall, in the county of Derby.
Chewton Mendip (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 46
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclofing, the open commons and waste lands within, or adjoining to, the township or parish of Chewton Mendip, in the county of Somerset.
Over Kellet Moor (Lancashire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 47
27 September 1796[b]
 
Dalton (Yorkshire, West Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 48
27 September 1796[b]
 
Thornborough (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 49
27 September 1796[b]
 
Allcannings and Allington (Wiltshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 50
27 September 1796[b]
 
Saham Tone (Norfolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 51
27 September 1796[b]
 
Wingrave-with-Rowsham (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 52
27 September 1796[b]
 
Bedford (St. Mary Parish) Inclosure Act 1797 (repealed)
37 Geo. 3. c. 53
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the open and common fields, pastures, commons, and waste grounds, within the parish of Saint Mary, in the town of Bedford, in the county of Bedford.
(Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1995)
Uggeshall, Frostenden and South Cove (Suffolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 54
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sotterly, Henstead with Hulverly, and Wrentham (Suffolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 55
27 September 1796[b]
 
Harwood (Lancashire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 56
27 September 1796[b]
 
Barrow (Lincolnshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 57
27 September 1796[b]
 
Lord Cadogan's Divorce Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 58
27 September 1796[b]
An act to dissolve the marriage of the right honourable Charles Sloane Cadogan, lord Cadogan, with Mary Churchill, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Charlotte Woodhouse's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 59
27 September 1796[b]
An act for effectuating a settlement of the freehold and copyhold estates of Charlotte Laura, the wife of John Wodehouse esquire, late Charlotte Laura Norris spinfter, pursuant to articles executed previous to their marriage, notwithstanding the infancy of the said Charlotte Laura Wodehouse.
Samuel Browne's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 60
27 September 1796[b]
 
George Hassell's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 61
27 September 1796[b]
 
Francis Chaplin's and Theophilus Buckworth's Estates Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 62
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sapperton (Derbyshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 63
27 September 1796[b]
 
Chalgrave (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 64
27 September 1796[b]
 
John Earl Spencer's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 65
27 September 1796[b]
An act for vesting in trustees, and their heirs, certain estates at Mappowder and Plush, in the county of Dorset, and Inkpen and Kintbury, in the county of Bucks, devised by the will of John late earl Spencer, in trust, to convey the same to the right honourable George John earl Spencer, and his heirs, discharged from the uses and trusts of the said will, on the said right honourable George John earl Spencer, settling in lieu thereof, to the uses and upon the trusts of the said will, his estate at Chapel Brampton, in the county of Northampton,
Estates of Lord Ashburnham and Canterbury Cathedral Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 66
27 September 1796[b]
An act for effectuating an exchange between the right honourable John earl of Ashburnham and the dean and chapter of Canterbury, of the advowson of the rectory of Ninfield for the advowson of the vicarage of Ashbournham, both in the county of Sussex.
Mollington in Cropredy (Oxfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 67
27 September 1796[b]
 
Whitchurch (Hampshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 68
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing, allotting, and enclosing, the several common fields, common downs, common pastures, waste lands, and other commonable places, within the parish of Whitcburch, in the county of Southampton, except the commonable lands lying within the borough of Whitchurch, and except the common arable field called The Burgage Field.
Whittlebury (Northamptonshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 69
27 September 1796[b]
An act for dividing and enclosing the open and common fields, common meadows, common pastures, and other commonable lands and grounds, within the parish and liberties of Whittlebury, in the county of Northampton, (except such commonable lands and grounds within the said parish and liberties as lie within the present ringmound of the foreft of Whittlewood, or Whittlebury); and for extinguishing a right of common in and over two certain pieces of ground within the said parish, called Porter's Wood, and Long Hedge.
Walsall Grammar School's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 70
27 September 1796[b]
An act for enabling the governors of the free grammar school of Queen Mary, at Walsall in the county of Stafford, to sell certain mines under part of their lands, and to sell or exchange certain parts of their lands lying dispersed, for improving and extending the benefits of the foundation of the said school, for enlarging the trusts and powers of the said governors, and for enabling them to build a chapel, and for other purposes.
Manors of Hornby and Tatham (Lancashire) Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 71
27 September 1796[b]
An act for establishing and rendering effectual certain articles of agreement, enabling the several fee farm and customary tenants within the honor, manor, and lordship of Hornby, and manor of Tatham, in the county palatine of Lancaster, who heretofore have omitted, now to come and in and purchase the timber trees and underwoods growing upon their respective tenements, and for vesting the sole property thereof in them respectively, and extinguishing the customary right of the other tenants therein, and for releasing and extinguishing the freehold fee farm and customary rents, boons, fines, and other services of right, due and accustomed for the tenements of such of the said tenants who have executed the said articles of agreement, and for extending the like powers and benefits to such of the said tenants, not being parties to the said articles, who shall, within a limited time, conform to the trusts thereof, with such exceptions and reservations only as are in this bill mentioned.
James Davis's Estate Act 1797: vesting estates in Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire in trustees, to be sold, for the discharge of incumbrances; the surplus to be laid out in the purchase of others, to be settled in lieu.
37 Geo. 3. c. 72
27 September 1796[b]
 
Elliot Salter's Estate Act 1797: sale of devised lands and hereditaments in Burnham (Buckinghamshire) and purchase of others to be conveyed in lieu.
37 Geo. 3. c. 73
27 September 1796[b]
 
Coln St. Dennis (Gloucestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 74
27 September 1796[b]
 
Diddington (Huntingdonshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 75
27 September 1796[b]
 
Ashcott (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 76
27 September 1796[b]
 
John Perrott's Estate Act 1797: vesting land and hereditamants in trustees, to be sold or exchanged for the discharge of a mortgage and for the purchase of other hereditaments to be settled in lieu, and enabling the trustees to grant building leases.
37 Geo. 3. c. 77
27 September 1796[b]
 
Enabling Thomas Stinton to grant a lease of prebendal land.
37 Geo. 3. c. 78
27 September 1796[b]
 
Charles Taylor's Estate Act 1797: vesting in trustees to be sold for the discharge of incumbrances and for the purchase of other estates to be settled in lieu.
37 Geo. 3. c. 79
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sir William Lowther's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 80
27 September 1796[b]
 
Henrietta Beach's Estate Act 1797: vesting East Mark and lands and hereditaments in Somerset in trustees, to be sold for the purchase of other lands and hereditaments to be settled in lieu.
37 Geo. 3. c. 81
27 September 1796[b]
 
Anna Sacheverell's and Jane Gough's estates: partition of estates in Warwickshire and Staffordshire.
37 Geo. 3. c. 82
27 September 1796[b]
 
Vesting estates in Allhallows Steyning (London) in Trinity House and subjecting the estates to rentcharges payable to the parish.
37 Geo. 3. c. 83
27 September 1796[b]
 
Chaddesley Corbett (Worcestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 84
27 September 1796[b]
 
Easterton (Wiltshire) allotment of open or common fields, downs, pastures, lands and grounds.
37 Geo. 3. c. 85
27 September 1796[b]
 
Bunny (Nottinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 86
27 September 1796[b]
 
Wyke Regis (Dorset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 87
27 September 1796[b]
 
Great Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire) allotment of common and open fields, common meadows, commonable lands, commons and waste grounds.
37 Geo. 3. c. 88
27 September 1796[b]
 
Little Wilbraham (Cambridgeshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 89
27 September 1796[b]
 
Corse (Gloucestershire) Inclosure (Amendment) Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 90
27 September 1796[b]
An act to explain, amend, and enlarge, the powers of an act passed in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An act for dividing and enclosing the open and common fields, common meadows, common pastures, and other commonable lands, within the parish of Corse, in the county of Gloucester."[d]
Toddington and Charlton (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 91
27 September 1796[b]
 
Barnby and Mutford (Suffolk) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 92
27 September 1796[b]
 
Elstow (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 93
27 September 1796[b]
 
Ditton (Lancashire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 94
27 September 1796[b]
 
Shipham and Winscombe (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 95
27 September 1796[b]
 
Joseph Cooke's divorce from Elizabeth Smith, and other provisions.
37 Geo. 3. c. 96
27 September 1796[b]
 
James M'Gauley's divorce from Elizabeth Rowlands, and other provisions.
37 Geo. 3. c. 97
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Lewis Haussoullier Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 98
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sir Francis Drake's Estate Act 1797: allowing timber to be cut on settled estates and applying the income from it in the purchase of other estates to be settled to the same uses.
37 Geo. 3. c. 99
27 September 1796[b]
 
Earl Cholmondeley's Estate Act 1797: vesting estates in Cheshire in fee simple and settling others in lieu.
37 Geo. 3. c. 100
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sir James Dashwood's Estate Act 1797: vesting in trustees, for sale, for the discharge of incumbrances and for the purchase of other estates to be settled to the uses of his will.
37 Geo. 3. c. 101
27 September 1796[b]
 
Southoe (Huntingdonshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 102
27 September 1796[b]
 
Holwell and Woodbridge (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 103
27 September 1796[b]
 
Somerton, Long Sutton, Ilchester, Martock (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 104
27 September 1796[b]
 
North Curry, Stoke St. Gregory and West Hatch (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 105
27 September 1796[b]
 
Cridling Stubbs (Yorkshire, West Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 106
27 September 1796[b]
 
Lindridge (Worcestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 107
27 September 1796[b]
 
Ashelworth (Gloucestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 108
27 September 1796[b]
 
Moreton Corbet, Shawbury, Stanton-upon-Hine Heath, and Hodnet (Salop.) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 109
27 September 1796[b]
 
Southill (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 110
27 September 1796[b]
 
Knipton (Leicestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 111
27 September 1796[b]
 
Hinton Martel and Gussage All Saints (Dorset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 112
27 September 1796[b]
 
Harrold (Bedfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 113
27 September 1796[b]
 
Stoke Mandeville (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 114
27 September 1796[b]
 
Kerry (Montgomeryshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 115
27 September 1796[b]
 
Free Grammar School of Harrow on the Hill and John Hunter's estates: exchange of a farm in North and South Mimms (Hertfordshire and Middlesex) for a farm in Harrow.
37 Geo. 3. c. 116
27 September 1796[b]
 
Simon Fraser of Lovat's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 117
27 September 1796[b]
 
Edward and Elizabeth Buckley's Marriage Settlement Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 118
27 September 1796[b]
 
Robert Pigot's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 119
27 September 1796[b]
 
Richard Langley's Marriage Settlements Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 120
27 September 1796[b]
 
Crown and Lord Berwick's Estates Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 121
27 September 1796[b]
 
Wark Common (Northumberland) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 122
27 September 1796[b]
 
Blankney and Scopwick (Lincolnshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 123
27 September 1796[b]
 
Settrington (Yorkshire, East Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 124
27 September 1796[b]
 
Oxhill (Warwickshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 125
27 September 1796[b]
 
Moorlince (Somerset) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 126
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Henry Schedel Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 127
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Jean Soilleux Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 128
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Frederick Heisch and John Maue Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 129
27 September 1796[b]
 
Bridget Southcote's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 130
27 September 1796[b]
 
Selby (Yorkshire, West Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 131
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sir Godfrey Vassall's Divorce Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 132
27 September 1796[b]
 
Earl of Bradford's and Lord Berwick's Estates Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 133
27 September 1796[b]
 
John and Elizabeth Pinney's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 134
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sir Henry Hoghton's Estate Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 135
27 September 1796[b]
 
Horton (Gloucestershire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 136
27 September 1796[b]
 
Weston (Hertfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 137
27 September 1796[b]
 
Hillam (Yorkshire, West Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 138
27 September 1796[b]
 
Adstock (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 139
27 September 1796[b]
 
Drayton Parslow (Buckinghamshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 140
27 September 1796[b]
 
Raunds (Northamptonshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 141
27 September 1796[b]
 
King's Walden (Hertfordshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 142
27 September 1796[b]
 
Bolton Percy (Yorkshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 143
27 September 1796[b]
 
Croydon (Surrey) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 144
27 September 1796[b]
 
Greatford (Lincolnshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 145
27 September 1796[b]
 
Pontefract (Yorkshire, West Riding) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 146
27 September 1796[b]
 
Great and Little Chiverell (Wiltshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 147
27 September 1796[b]
 
Eynesbury (Huntingdonshire) Inclosure Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 148
27 September 1796[b]
 
Sidenham Teast's Divorce Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 149
27 September 1796[b]
 
Naturalization of Nicholas Dubois de Chemant Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 150
27 September 1796[b]
An act for naturalizing Nicholas Dubois De Chemant.
John Tempest's Bequest Act 1797
37 Geo. 3. c. 151
27 September 1796[b]
An act for vesting in a new trustee the sum of forty thousand pounds given by a codicil annexed to the will of John Tempest esquire, to Farrer Wren, and Robert Shafto esquires, upon certain trusts in the said codicil mentioned.
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  4. ^ Corse (Gloucestershire) Inclosure Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 113)

Sources

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes: 37 George III (1796–1797)
  • Pickering, Danby, ed. (1797). "Anno regni tricesimo septimo Georgii III". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 41. pp. 191–498 – via Google Books.
  • Pickering, Danby, ed. (1797). "Anno regni tricesimo septimo Georgii III". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 41. pp. 191–498 – via Internet Archive.
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38 Geo. 3

The second session of the 18th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 2 November 1797 until 29 June 1798.

Public general acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
Restriction on Cash Payments (No. 2) Act 1797
or the Bank Restriction Act 1797
38 Geo. 3. c. 1
30 November 1797
An Act to amend and continue, until one month after the conclusion of the present war, the provisions contained in an act, passed in the session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter ninety-one,[a] videlicet, on the twenty second of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for the restriction on payments of cash by the bank.
Issue of Bank Notes (Scotland) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 2
30 November 1797
An act to continue, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act passed in the session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 137, viz. on July 20, 1797,[b] intituled, "An act to continue an act, made in this present session of parliament, intituled, 'An act to revive and continue for a limited time, and amend an act passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, "An act to allow the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for fums under a certain amount, for a limited time; and for indemnifying all persons who have issued notes for small sums of money in that part of the united kingdom," for a limited time.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Importation (No. 3) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 3
30 November 1797
An act to continue until March 1, 1799, an act passed in the session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 72,[c] viz. on June 6, 1797, for prohibiting the importation of cambricks and French lawns into this kingdom, not being of the manufacture of Ireland, except for the purpose of being warehoused for exportation.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Duties on Malt, etc. Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 4
30 November 1797
An act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year 1798.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
38 Geo. 3. c. 5
30 November 1797
An act for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year 1798.
Army and Navy Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 6
2 December 1797
An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 70,[d] viz. on June 6, 1797, for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces, by sea or land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Negotiation of Notes and Bills (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 7
2 December 1797
An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, two several acts passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, the one, c. 32,[e] on March 10, and the other, c. 61,[f] on May 25, 1797, for suspending, for a limited time, the operation of certain acts made in the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negociation of promissory notes and bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Loans or Exchequer Bills (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 8
30 December 1797
An act for raising a certain sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year 1798.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Continuance of Laws (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 9
30 December 1797
An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act passed in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty, c. 15. viz on March 16, 1795, and also an act passed in the same year, c. 8o. viz. on May 22, 1795, and also another act, passed in the thirty-sixth year of his present Majesty, c. 76, viz. May 14, 1796, relating to the admission of certain articles of merchandize in neutral ships, and the issuing of orders in council for that purpose; and to continue, for the same period, an act, passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 21,[g] viz. on Dec. 28, 1796, authorising his Majesty to make regulations respecting the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Exportation (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 10
30 December 1797
An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks from the commencement of the next session of parliament, so much of an act, passed in the session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 7,[h] viz. on Nov. 11, 1796, as relates to the exportation and carrying coastwise of wheat and rye, and to the importation of several articles of provision.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Duties on Distilleries Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 11
30 December 1797
An act to revive and continue, until March 1, 1798, an act passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, c. 102,[i] viz. on July 19, 1797, for granting to his Majesty additional duties on distilleries in the several parts of the highlands of Scotland therein particularly described, for a limited time; and for regulating the duties on distilleries in the respective districts in Scotland.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Militia (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 12
30 December 1797
An act to give further time for executing, and for enlarging, the powers of an act, made in the last session of parliament, intituled, "An act to raise and embody a militia force in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland."[j]
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
38 Geo. 3. c. 13
30 December 1797
An act to amend an act made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An act to enable his Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and qualifications."[k]
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
Indemnity (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 14
30 December 1797
An act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify justices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time directed by law, and for extending the time limitted for those purposes until Dec. 25, 1798; to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whose admissions have been omitted to be stamped according to law or having been stamped have been lost or mislaid and for allowing them until Dec. 25, 1798, to provide admissions duly stamped; to permit such persons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Michaelmas term, 1798; and for indemnifying deputy lieutenants and officers of the militia, who have neglected to transmit descriptions of their qualifications to the clerks of the peace within the time directed by law, and for extending the time limited for that purpose until Sept. 1, 1798.
(Repealed by Promissory Oaths Act 1871)
Marine Mutiny (No. 2) Act 1797 (repealed)
38 Geo. 3. c. 15
30 December 1797
An act for the regulation of his Majesty's marine forces while on shore, to continue until March 25, 1799.
(Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871)
  1. ^ Restrictions on Cash Payments Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 91)
  2. ^ Bank (Scotland) Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 137)
  3. ^ Importation Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 72)
  4. ^ Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 70)
  5. ^ Negotiation of Notes and Bills Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 32)
  6. ^ Negotiation of Notes and Bills (No. 2) Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 61)
  7. ^ Cape of Good Hope Trade Act 1796 (37 Geo. 3. c. 21)
  8. ^ Exportation and Importation Act 1796 (37 Geo. 3. c. 7)
  9. ^ Scotch Distilleries Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 102)
  10. ^ Militia Act 1797 (37 Geo. 3. c. 103)
  11. ^ Commissions to Foreign Protestants Act 1756 (29 Geo. 2. c. 5)

Local acts

Short title, or popular nameCitationRoyal assent (or the start of session)
Long title
38 Geo. 3. c. i[a]
30 December 1797
To amend two acts, made in the thirty-first and thirty-third years of the reign of his present Majesty, for taking down and rebuilding the parish church of All Saints within the town and county of the town of Southampton.
  1. ^ This was the first ever 'local' Act.

Sources

Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Chronological Table and Index of the Statutes: 38 George III (1797–1798)
  • Pickering, Danby, ed. (1797). "Anno regni tricesimo octavo Georgii III". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 41. pp. 523–534 – via Google Books.
  • Journals of the House of Commons. Vol. 53. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1803. pp. 3–172 – via Google Books.
  • Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict. Sess. 2 (1895) (13th ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1896. pp. 162–163 – via Google Books.

See also

References

  1. ^ This short title was conferred on this Act by the Grand Union Canal Act 1943 (6 & 7 Geo. 6. c. v). See further The Public General Acts and Church Assembly Measures of 1943, King's Printer, 1944, p xxx.
  2. ^ a b c d e The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  3. ^ This act is listed as having this short title in section 11 of the Merchant Navy Memorial Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. xv).
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