Different Act And What They Mean Flashcards
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1780 (repealed)
An Act for further continuing an Act made in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, “An Act to empower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with, or suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, committed in any of His Majesty’s Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy.”
Land Tax (Commissioners) Act 1785 (repealed)
An Act for appointing Commissioners to put 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 eighty-five;” together with those named in Three former Acts for appointing Commissioners of the Land Tax, and with those named in the Land-Tax Act of the Twenty-Third Year of His Majesty’s Reign, and in the Land-Tax Act of this Session of Parliament.
Chimney Sweepers Act 1788 (repealed)
An Act for the better Regulation of Chimney Sweepers, and their Apprentices.
