Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692. 529

authorized and Impowered to adjourn the court to some short
time after as to them shall seem meet and that no suit for
want of a full court fall or abate, but the same shall be con-
tinued untill the next Court to be held according to such
adjournment as aforesaid, And that if the first day appoint^t
by this Act for the holding of the severall and respective
Courts be not time enough to do the business in that Court
depend^g, Then the Justices of such Court are hereby Im-
powered to adjourn from day to day untill such time as the
business returnable or Tryable in that Court shall be finished
And Whereas there have some scruples arisn by the Comiss^rs
of the respective County Courts whether they shall or may do
any other business in every June Court in every respective
year then what was concerning Orphans the True intent and
meaning of this Act is, that the Comiss^rs of every respective
County Court may and ought to do hear Judge and determine
any business depending in the said Court at the same June
Court between any persons whatsoever, as well as relating
to any Orphans business.
June 2^d 1692. June the 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r have Assented
John Llewellin Clk. Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk.

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

An Act for Keeping a Register of
Births marriages and burialls in each
respective County.

Be it Enacted by the King & Queens most Excellent Maj-
esties by and with the advice and consent of this present
Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same, that the
names Sirnames and places of abode of all manner of
persons within this Province Except Negroes Indians and
Mollato's that are not born of white women that shall from
and after the Publication of this Act be born married or buried
within this Province together with the respective dates of the
day month and Year of Our Lord of their said birth Marriage
or burialls shall be Exhibited to the Clerk of each respective
County Court by the father of any such Child as shall be born
the person Married or the next of kin Executors Administra-
tors, Master Mistress to him or them that shall be buried as
aforesaid within two Months after such birth Marriages or
buriall aforesaid under the penalty one one thousand pounds
of Tobacco, the one half to the Clerk of every respective
County, the other half to the poor of the said County wherein
such default shall happen as aforesaid. And be it further

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