ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.

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A Collection of the Public General Statutes, Passed in the Thirty-Ninth Year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Third: Being the Third Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain. First edition of this complete set of 114 statute laws. It opens with the act that granted Lord Nelson and his descendants a perpetual pension in reward for his victory at the Battle of the Nile. It also includes the Slave Trade Act 1799, notable for better regulating the conditions aboard slave ships sailing from Africa.Other laws of note include William Pitt's Income Tax Act; the Offences at Sea Act (still in force today); and the Combination Act, banning trade unions.

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