Book #71678
Item #71678 An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act [and Three Other Acts]. Australia, Transportation.

An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act [and Three Other Acts].

Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia [Australia]. [Transporation]. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders, As Relates to the Punishment of Burning in the Hand of Certain Persons Convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [437]-438, [2] pp. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [With] An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-Four, Videlicet, On the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Intituled, An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to Transportation, Imprisonment, And of the Punishment of Certain Offenders, As Relates to the Lodgings of Judges at County Assizes [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [441]-442, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [And] An Act for Continuing, Until the Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Two, Several Laws Relating to the Transportation of Felons and Other Offenders to Temporary Places of Confinement in England and Scotland Respectively [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [461]-462, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [And] An Act for Continuing, Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand eight hundred and two, So Much of an Act, Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-Four. Videlicit, On the the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Intituled, An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders, As Relates to Penitentiary Houses [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [465]-466, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. Four disbound items, 12-1/2" x 8." Light toning and edgewear, light soiling to edges, small chi.

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