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BENEDICT LEONARD CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
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1729. |
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CHAP. II.
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An ACT repealing Part of an Act, entitled, * An Act against
Forging and Counterfeiting of Foreign Coins, Gold or
Silver;
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the
then
Town and Port of Annapolis, the 20th Day of March,
Anno
Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven.
Lib. L.
Nº 5. fol. 256.
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Passed 8th
August 1729.
* 1707, ch. 4. |
WHEREAS at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis, Anno 1707, there was an Act passed, to prevent, amongst
other Things, the Clipping of all Sorts of Foreign
Coins; but forasmuch as such Coins, both of Gold and Silver, do at this
Time pass current by Weight, and not by Tale, as heretofore, whereby the
Mischiefs of Clipping are effectually prevented; and seeing that the Cutting
or Clipping of Foreign Coins is now in some Measure necessary for the
making
of Change; this present General Assembly taking into their serious Consideration
the grievous Penalties inflicted by the said Act, upon Person clipping
Foreign Coins as aforesaid, have thought fit to repeal so much of the
said Act as related thereunto;
II. Wherefore,
be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
that part of the
said Act that relates to clipping the Coins therein mentioned, be, and
is hereby
utterly repealed, and made void.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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Preamble.
The Act of
1707, ch. 4,
so far as relates
to clipping
of
Coins, repealed. |
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CHAP. III.
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A Supplementary ACT to the Acts for * regulating Writs of
Error, and granting Appeals from and to the Courts of
Common
Law, within this Province; and for regulating † Appeals
from the Court of Chancery. Lib. L. Nº 5.
fol. 257.
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Passed 8th
August 1729.
* 1713, ch. 4.
† See 1721,
ch. 14, §. 3. |
WHEREAS, in and by the said Act, amongst other Things, it is
Enacted and Contained, That in all Appeals and Writs of Error
from the Courts of Law, to the Governor and Council, it should
and might be sufficient for the Council only, to hear and determine Matters
of Controversy, whereof the first of the Council in Commission being
present,
should preside; whose Judgment thereupon should be definitive, in as
full and ample Manner, as if the said Governor were actually present, and
presiding. And forasmuch as it hath happened, that the first in Commission
of the said Council, through Sickness, or other Means, could not attend
the
Court of Appeals, by reason whereof, some Inconveniencies and Delays to
Business have been;
II. Be it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and
Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That in case the
Governor,
and first in Commission of his Lordship's Council, be absent from the Court
of Appeals, the senior Councillor then present in Court, shall preside;
and
the said Court shall and may hear and determine any Matter before them,
whether in Law or Equity, in the same Manner they might be the said Acts
have done, in case the Governor, or first in Commission was actually present,
and that the Judgment of those who shall be present, shall be as effectual
as
if it were given by the Governor, or first nominated in his Lordship's
Commission:
Provided there be Five Members of the said Court present.
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Preamble.
In Absence of
the Governor
and president
of the Council,
the senior
Councillor
then present
shall preside
in the Court
of Appeals.
Five Members
to be
present.
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