PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.
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The register of the parish to have the custody of all the registers of
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baptisms, SLC. to be shewn to any body reasonably desiring it —
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1798, ch. 24, sec. 22, ........
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To give a certificate thereof, which, when signed by him, and under
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the common seal of the vestry, shall be evidence — 1798, ch. 24,
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sec. 22, ......
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BIGAMY.
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The general court empowered to declare any second marriage, the first
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subsisting, null and void — Feb. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 15, .
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Manner of proceeding on an appeal from their judgment — 1777, ch. 12,
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sec. 15, ...........
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BIGAMY— PUNISHMENT FOR.
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See CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
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BILLS OF COST.
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The clerks of courts of record, the register of the chancery court, and
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of the commissary's court, directed to deliver to defendants, if re-
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quired, full copies of all costs recovered against them — 1731, ch.
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15, sec. 3, ..........
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On refusal, to forfeit two thousand pounds of tobacco — 1731, ch. 15,
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sec. 3, . . . .
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BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
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On all bills of exchange hereafter drawn in this state on any person,
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corporation, &c. in a foreign country, and regularly protested, the
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person .entitled thereto may recover
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So much money as will purchase a good bill of the same time of pay-
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ment, and on the same place, at the current exchange of such bill,
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Fifteen per cent, damages on the value of the principal sum in the said
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bill,
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Costs of the protest,
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Legal interest on the principal from the time of the protest till the prin-
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cipal and damages are paid — 1785, ch. 38, sec. 1,
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An endorser, paying to the person entitled the aforesaid value, damages
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and interest, may recover the sum paid, with legal interest upon the
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same, from the drawer or person, &c. liable — 1785, ch. 38, sec. 1,
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Inland bills or orders, drawn by a citizen, company, &c. of any other
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of the United States, or any person residing or being therein, on
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any person, company, &c. of this state, or any person residing or
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being therein, shall be liable to official protest by a notary public,
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or the clerk of any county court, who are vested with authority to
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make such protests, under their respective seals of office — 1785, ch.
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38, sec. 2, ..........
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On all bills of exchange or orders, hereafter drawn in this state, on any
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person, company, &c. in any other of the United States, and pro-
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tested according to the laws or customs of the state where payable,
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the person entitled may recover — 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2, .
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