476 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692.

Lib. L. L.
No, I.

An Act Prohibiting Arrests upon Sabbath
day's [or] day's of Generall Muster or Training.

Whereas it hath been the frequent practice of Sherriffs and
other Officers appointed for the serving of Process for their
own ease and benefitt to repair to the Churches and other
places of publick meeting upon the Sabbath day as also unto
the usuall places of Mustering and training for the better

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Education of the Inhabitants of this Province in Martiall dis-
cipline on purpose to serve warrants and Executions and
other Writts Precepts and Process to them directed by which
means men in danger of Arrests have been deterred from the
Service of God and their Majesties It is therefore Enacted by
the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties by and w^th the
advice and consent of this Generall Assembly and by the
Authority of the same, That no Sherriff or other Officer to
whom any Warrant Execution Writ Precept or other Process
shall be directed or any their Deputies or other Person or
Persons by them Especialy appointed for the Serving of the
same from and after the Publication hereof, shall Execute or
serve any such Warrant Execution Writts Precepts or Process
as aforesaid upon any person or persons within this Province
either upon the Sabbath day or uppon any Training or Mus-
tering days for Military Concerns or Ellection of Burgesses
within this Province where in they bear Office And be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and w^th the
advice and consent aforesaid, That every such Warrant Executⁿ
Writt Precept or Process as aforesaid served or Executed
contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act the Arrest
or Execution by Virtue thereof made, shall be in it self void
and the Sherriff or other Officer to whom such Process shall
be directed doing or Suffering the same to be done shall be
lyable to an Action of false Imprisonment to be brought by
the Party grieved Provided always that it shall and may -be

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Lawfull for the Sherriff or any other Officer to apprehend and
carry to Prison any Person or Persons for Riotts fellony or
suspicion of Fellony or for Escapes out of Prison when under
Execution upon any days or at any Place within their respec-
tive precincts as also to arrest any person or persons on a
Mustering day or day of Election that is not bound to attend
such Muster or that are not Qualifyed by Law for Electors
any thing in this Act to contrary hereof in any wise notwith-
standing.
June 2^d 1692. June the 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board. The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r John Llewellin Clk. have Assented.
Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk.