An Act to continue the several laws therein mentioned for preventing theft and rapine on the northern borders of England : for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed persons going armed in disguise, and doing injuries and violences to the persons and properties of His Majesties subjects, and for the more speedy bringing the offenders to justice; for continuing two clauses to prevent the cutting or breaking down the bank of any river, or sea bank, and to prevent the malicious cutting of hop-binds; and for the more effectual punishment of ersons maliciously setting fire any mine, pit, or delph of coal, or cannel coal; and of persons unlawfully hunting or taking any red or fallow deer in forests or chaces, or beating or wounding the keepers or other officers in forests, chaces, or parks; and for granting a liberty to carry sugars of the growth, produce, or manufacture in any of His Majesty's sugar colonies in America, from the said colonies directly to foreign parts in ships built in Great Britain, and navigated according to law; and to explain two Acts relating to the procesution of offenders for embeziling naval stores; or stores of war; and to prevent the retailing of wine within either of the universities in that part of Great Britain called England without licence.
| Author/creator | Great Britain |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [London] : [printed by Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett], [1744] |
| Description | 2 unnumbered pages, 747-758 pages ; 2⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Public General Acts. 1743-1744. 17 Geo.II.c.40 |
| General note | At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo septimo Georgii II. Regis.' - Text in black letter. |
| General note | Last word of first line of text: 'after'; first word of line below initial: 'and'; last word of last full line of text: 'been'. |
| General note | Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, .. 1741. .. And from thence continued .. to the first day of December, 1743. being the third session of this present Parliament.' - Imprint from general titlepage. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas". |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N52223. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Other title | Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, .. 1741. .. And from thence continued .. to the first day of December, 1743. being the third session of this presen Parliament. |