secured and Easily obteined according to the true Intent of
the Laws heretofore made (now in force) or hereafter to be
made Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maty by
and with the Advice and Consent of this Present Gen-
erall Assembly and the Authority of the Same That the Judge
or Comissary Generall for Probat of Wills and Granting
Administrations shall hold his Court once in Two Months att
the least or oftener as the Case shall require reguard being
had to the distance of the habitations of the Suitors in the said
Court and the dispatch of Persons not inhabiting in this Prov-
ince who have frequent Occasions to Seek Justice in the Court
for probate of Wills and Granting Administrations before the
Judge thereof and for as much as Certeinty is the mother of
Repose and that our Dependance upon England obliges us to
make all our Laws as Near as may be Consonant to the Laws
of England Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that the Judge for Probat of Wills and Granting Admrcons
within this Province in all Cases relateing to Probate of Wills
& Granting Administrations shall proceed According to the
Laws of England now in force or to be hereafter in force
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