CHAP. 4.  An act continuing an act, entitled, An act that the solemn affirmation
    and declaration of the people called quakers, shall be accepted instead of an oath
    in the usual form.

    See the note on 7 and 8 W. 3, Ch.34.

CHAP. 6.  An act for the further security of his majesty's person, and the succession
    of the crown in the protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended
    prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and their open and secret abettors.
    (Part.)

    See the note on Ch. 3, and on 12 and 13 W. 3, Ch. 2.
 

CHAP. 8.  An act for explaining a clause in an act of parliament, began and holden
    at Westminster, the two and twentieth of November, in the seventh year of the
    reign of our sovereign lord and king William the third, entitled, " An act for the
    better security of his majesty's royal person and government.

    See the note on 7 W. 3, Ch. 27.  The 6th section of this statute, declared that it should extend to
Ireland, Jersey and Guernsey, and to all his majesty's dominions in America and elsewhere.

CHAP. 22.  An act to declare the alterations in the oath, appointed to be taken
    by the act, entitled, An act for the further security of his majesty's person, and
    the succession of the crown in the protestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes
    of the pretended prince of Wales, and all other pretenders and their open and secret
    abettors, and for declaring the association to be determined.

    See the note on 13 W. 3, Ch. 6.
 

    For the part of this statute, concerning accessaries, see the note on 3 and 4 W. and M. Ch. 9; as to
the 3d section, under which the witnesses for prisoners, in trials for treason or felony, were to depose
on oath in the same manner, as those for the prosecution, it undoubtedly extended to the province,
as well as that of 7 W. 3, Ch. 3, which made a similar provision in regard to treason, (see 4 Bl. Com.
353 and 354,) and inasmuch as there was a time when witnesses were not suffered thus to depose,
and the contrary practice originated with these statutes, it would have been proper to incorporate
them with our laws; but a sufficient provision appears to be made by the 19th section of our declaration
of rights, which among other things, declares that in all criminal prosecutions, every man hath
a right to examine the witnesses for and against him, on oath.  The 4th and 5th sections of this