An Act to repeal the Act of the Seventh Year of King George the Second, Chapter Eight, commonly called "Sir John Barnard's Act," and the Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Second, Chapter Eight.
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, Chapter Eight, to prevent the Practice of Stock-jobbing, and by another Act passed in the Tenth Year of the said King's Reign, Chapter Eight, the said first-mentioned Act was made perpetual: And whereas the said Acts impose unnecessary Restrictions on the making of Contracts for the Sale and Transfer of Public Stocks and Securities, and it is therefore expedient to repeal the same: Be it enacted by the Queen...