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4 WILLIAM and MARY.
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CHAP. X.
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Passed 8th
Dec. 1688. |
An Act for repairing the State-House. Lib. WH. fol. 308.
OBS.
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An Act for Payment and Assessing of the public Charge of this Province.
Lib.
WH. fol. 310. OBS.
N.B. On
the 23d August 1689, the CONVENTION met at St. Mary's, by
virtue of Letters
missive, from the several Commanders, Officers, and Gentlemen associated
in Arms, for the Defence of
the Protestant Religion, and asserting the Right and Title of their
present Majesties, King William and
Queen Mary, to this Province, as to all other the English Dominions
and Territories; and made choice
of Mr. Kenelm Cheseldine for their Speaker.
In which Convention it was Voted and Ordered (on
the 2d September) " That the Temporary laws of this Province do
stand and continue revived for
" 3 Years from their Commencement, or otherwise in Statu quo prius,
as if this Assembly had not
" been."
On the 29th September 1690, the Convention
met again, and appointed Col. Geo. Robotham their
Speaker, or Chairman.
They published an Ordinance or Proclamation,
on the 6th October, prohibiting the Exportation
of Indian Corn, until the 10th July following.
The same Day was read a Draught for the Repeal of three
Acts, viz. 1688, Chapters 5, 7,
and 8; but was rejected, as not within the Cognizance of that House.
The Convention being met on the 9th April
1692, his Excellency Lyonel Copley, Esq; produced,
and caused to be read, his Commission for the Government of this Province,
and on that same Day,
in his Majesty's Name, Dissolved the same.
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At an ASSEMBLY, held at the City of St. Mary's,
on the 10th Day of May, Anno Domini 1692, and
and in the 4th Year of Reign of our Sovereign
Lord and Lady WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace
of GOD, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland,
King and Queen, &c. and ended the 9th
Day of June following; These * Acts following
were made. |
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LYONEL COPLEY, Esq; Governor.
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* The Laws of this Session, being
the first which was regularly held in this Province, after
the Government was seized into the Hands of the Crown, at the Revolution,
are recorded at
large, in the Order they are there inserted, in a Book marked LL, in the
Secretary's Office, which
was transmitted from England, and copied from the original Laws
there, as appears by the Certificate
of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Baronet, then Secretary
of the Province, at the End thereof, in
the following Words:
" MEMORANDUM,
" That all these Laws, contained in this Book, being
Fourscore and four in Number, and
" written in 249 Pages, were copied out at the Plantation Office in Whitehall,
from the Original
" Laws, then in the Custody of the Hon. William Blathwait, and
John Povey, Esquires,
" and were carefully examined by me at Whitehall in the Month of
December 1695. Witness
" my Hand,
THOMAS LAWRENCE."
This Book composed the Body of Laws
for the Province at the End of this Session, as all former
ones (except such as related to private Rights and Property) were repealed
by ch. 84.
These Laws are likewise recorded, but in a different
Order, in Lib. L, bound together
with, and after, Lib. WH, remaining in the Secretary's Office, which
for Distinction sake I have
marked [Lib. WH and L*.] to shew that the Laws so
distinguished, must be sought for in the
2d Series of Folioes in that Book. And such of these Laws as were
continued in Force, by the
Act of 1699, ch. 46, are likewise recorded in
Lib. LL, N° 2, begun in the Year 1699, and intended
for the Body of Provincial Laws to that Period, so that the References
are here made to
the several Books before mentioned.
The Enacting Stile of this Session (and which continued
the same, mutatis mutandis, during
the Reign of his Majesty K. William) is " Be it Enacted by the
King and Queen's most excellent
" Majesties, by and with the Advice and Consent of this present General
Assembly, and the Authority
" of the same." |
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