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3 ANNE.
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CHAP.
XXVII.
Persons Trading
directly
from England
to this Province,
shall
have equal
Privileges
with the Inhabitants.
Repeal of the
Act of 1695,
ch. 22.
But Transgressors
of
that Law,
during its
Existence, to
be punished
thereby. |
IX. Provided
always, and it is the true Intent
and Meaning of this Act,
That no Person or Persons whatsoever,
as shall Trade directly from England top
this Province as aforesaid, be deemed,
construed, reputed, or taken as Foreigners;
but that all and every such person
or persons, so Trading directly
from England to this Province
as aforesaid have free Liberty in the Exportation?
of any Skins or Furs whatsoever,
or tin the Exportation of any Meat,
dried or undried, equal with the
Inhabitants of this Province, paying such
Duties and impositions for the said
several and respective Commodities as this
Law hat imposed upon the Inhabitants
aforesaid, and no more.
X.
And be it also further Enacted by
the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That
one former Act of this Province, entitled
An Act for laying an Imposition
upon several Commodities exported out of this Province,
be, and is hereby repealed.
XI. Provided
always, and it is the true Intent
and Meaning of this Act,
That no Person or Persons whatsoever,
having in any Part transgressed against
the aforesaid Law, during the Time
it was in Force, being as yet Undiscovered
or Unprosecuted for the same or
under present Prosecution for the same,
shall have and receive any Benefit
or Advantage by the Repeal thereof; but
that upon the Prosecution or Discovery
of such person or persons so having
offended as aforesaid, the said
law shall be pleadable in any Court within this
Province, wherein any Plaint or
Information is, or shall be brought, against
such Person or Persons as aforesaid,
and the Judgment thereupon, given by
the Justices of the said Court,
as the nature of the Cause shall require, in
as full and ample manner, as though
the said Law, at the Time of the rendering
such Judgment, were then actually
in Force; any thing before mentioned
or recited to the contrary hereof
notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XVIII.
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Passed 3d of
October 1704. |
An Act for the Encouragement of Tillage, and Relief of poor Debtors.
Lib. LL.
N° 3. fol. 72. EXP.
To continue 3 Years. Revived
1708, ch. 20; and 1712, ch. 25. A new Law made 1715,
ch. 17.
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CHAP. XXIX.
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An ACT for the Relief of Creditors in England, against Bankrupts
who have imported any Goods into this Province, not
accounted
for. Lib. LL. N° 3. fol. 74. |
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A Supplementary Act 1753, ch. 36.
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The Factors,
here, of
Bankrupts in
England, shall
be accountable
to the
Commissioners
of Bankrupts. |
Be it Enacted by the Queen's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council and Assembly of this Province,
and the Authority of the same, That if any person who is become
Bankrupt in England, and hath imported unto this Province any Cargo
of Goods and Merchandized, nd the same consigned to any his Factor or Agent
in this Province, who hath not accounted, or shall not have accounted
for such Cargo to his Principal (That is to say) to the Bankrupt
aforesaid,
before an Action of Account be brought against such Factor or Agent, by
the Commissioner of Bankrupt, or before a legal Demand made, to have Account
of such Charge to the said Commissioner, by the Agent, Factor, or Attorney
of such Commissioner; that the Commissioners of Bankrupts, by virtue
of this Act, may compel such Factor or Agent to account to them, as her
should have done to the principal: And the Commissioners of Bankrupt
shall
be adjudged, deemed and taken, to have the same Right to such Goods and
Cargo, and the Produce of the same, as they have to any the Goods and Wares
of the said Bankrupt in England. |
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