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1 GEORGE I.
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CHAP.
XXX.
Repeal of a
Clause in the
Act of 1702,
ch. 1, which
obliges Vestry-men
to
subscribe the
Association.
All Vestry-men
to qualify
by taking
the Oaths. |
And that without taking and subscribing which Oath, no Person shall
be capable/
of holding, executing, or enjoying any Office of Trust within this
Province
whatsoever.
III. And whereas
by any Act of the General Assembly of this Province,
made the Sixteenth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand
Seven Hundred and One, entitled, An Act for Establishment of Religious
Worship
in this Province, &c. it was Enacted, That all Vestry-men
should subscribe
the Association before they should be admitted to the Execution of
that Office: But forasmuch as by the Death of his most sacred
Majesty King
William the Third, the subscribing the said ASsociation if nor
necessary to be
longer continued; Be to therefore Enacted, That such Part thereof,
and
Clause in the before recited Act of Assembly, which relates to the
Vestry-mens
subscribing the Association, and no more, is hereby repealed and declared?
void.
IV. And it is
further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
that
all and every Person and Persons that are at this present Time Vestry-men
in
this Province, and all other Person or Persons that for the Time to
come shall
be elected or chosen Vestry-men, shall take the before recited Oath
of Abjuration;
and that it be administer'd to them according to the Forms and
Methods prescribed in the aforesaid Act of Assembly for taking the
Oaths
therein required to be taken: And after the taking such Oath,
the Person so
elected or chosen shall be deemed and taken as one of the Vestry, and
not before.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP. XXXI.
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Passed 3d
June 1715. |
An ACT ascertaining the Height of Fences, to prevent the Evil
occasioned by the Multitude of Horses, and restraining
Horse-Rangers
within this Province; and to redress the great Evil
accruing
to this Province by the Multiplicity of useless
Horses,
Mares and Colts that run in the Woods. Lib.
LL. N° 4. fol.
178. |
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A Supplementary Act made 1750, ch. 25.
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All Inclosures,
by
Fences, or otherwise,
to be
5 Feet high.
Horses, &c.
to be kept
within sufficient
Inclosures,
from
the 1st May,
to the 10th
November,
yearly.
Or else, after
Notice twice
given to the
Owner, such
Horses, &c.
may be shot
by the Party
damnified. |
Be it Enacted, by the King's
most excellent Majesty, any and with the Advice
and Consent of his Majesty's Governor, Council. and Assembly of
this Province,
and the Authority of the same, That all Inclosures by Fences,
or otherwise, within the Intention of this Act herein after mentioned,
shall
be Five Foot high: And from and after the First Day of May
till the next
Tenth Day of November next, and so yearly and every Year, all
Owners of
any Horse or Horses, Mares, Colts and Geldings, shall and are hereby
obliged
to keep all such Horse or Horse, Mares, Colts, or Geldings, within
good and
sufficient Inclosures, Fenced-Grounds or Pastures, upon the Pains and
Penalties
hereafter following.
II. And be it
further Enacted, By the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That if the Owner or Owners of
any such Horse
or Horses, Mares, Colts, or Geldings, as aforesaid, shall omit to take
up, drive
in, and keep up all such Horses, Mares, Colts, or Geldings, and that
such
Horses, Mares, Colts, or Geldings, shall break into the Pastures, Corn-fields,
or other Inclosures of any Inhabitants within this Province, within
the Time
by this Act limited as aforesaid, the said Owner or Owners thereof
having
Notice or Warning thereof given him, her of then, two several Times
by
the Party grieved, and notwithstanding the Owner or Owners of such
Horse
or Horses, Mares, Colts, or Geldings as aforesaid, neglecting to perform
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