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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, April 26, 1715-August 10, 1716
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612 Assembly Proceedings, July 17-Aug. 10, 1716.

Bacon.

III. Provided nevertheless, That it be always construed,
understood and adjudged, that where any of the said Fines
are directed by those Laws to be appropriated or applied
towards the Support of Government, his Lordship's the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary his Government of this
Province, be thereby understood and none other.
IV. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That all manner of Suits, Indictments,
Informations, or other Prosecutions that shall hereafter be
made for any such Fines, Forfeitures or Penalties as aforesaid,
wherein his Majesty's Name or Title ought to have been used,
as a Party in such Prosecution, it shall be lawful instead
thereof, to use the Name or Title of the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietor of this Province, or the Name or Title of
his Lordship's Heirs or Successors, as fully and amply to all
Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatsoever, as if such
Name or Title of his said Lordship, or of his Heirs or Suc-
cessors had been expressly mentioned in such Acts, instead of
the Name or Title of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Heirs
or Successors; any Thing therein, or in any other Law to the
contrary notwithstanding.
V. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That for any Suits, Indictments, or
other Prosecutions, in the Name of his Lordship, or of his
Heirs or Successors, where, according to the present Form of
those Laws, such Suits, Indictments or other Prosecutions
ought to have been made or prosecuted in the Name of his
present Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, such Alteration or
Difference of Name, Stile or Title in such Suits, Indictments
or other Prosecutions, from what is express'd in the said
Laws, shall be no ways assigned or assignable for Error
therein, or be any ways allowed or allowable as any Fault,
Defect or Cause of Exception thereto, but that all such Ex-
ceptions or pretended Faults, or Causes of Error, shall be and
are hereby aided; any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act.
Reverdy Ghiselin,
Thomas Bacon.

An Act for the better Security of the Peace and Safety of his
Lordship's Government, and the Protestant Interest within
this Province.

Whereas it appears to have been the just Sense of the
Legislature of Great-Britain, for some Years past, that the
Safety of his Majesty's Royal Person and Government, the



 
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