that statute.  The other parts, as to prosecutions, did not extend to the province from any thing that
appears in the provincial records.
 

    In the last section there was a proviso, that the act should not extend to any person residing in
Asia, Africa, or America, for whose account any insurance should be made before the 25th of March
1747.  This statute is considered proper to be incorporated, &c. except the 2d, 3d and 5th sections.
 

    This statute directed that process not executed, should be turned over by sheriffs, at the expiration
of their offices, to the next succeeding sheriffs, and that no sheriff should be called on for return of any
process unless within six months after such expiration.  This statute appears to have related to the
general duties of sheriffs, and to have been applicable to the province.  It is also considered proper
to be incorporated, &c.
 

    See the note on 5 Eliz. Ch. 9.  But this statute has been in force in the province and in the state in
part; that is, the 1st and 2d sections, which are proper to be continued.
 

    It is certain that this statute extended to the province, and has remained in force in the state.  The
first section enacted, that in and throughout all his majesty's dominions in Europe, Asia, Africa and
America, the said supputation, according to which, the year began on the 25th of March, should not
be made use of from and after the last day of December 1751.  The year 1752, was to begin the 1st
of January 1752, and the day after the 2d of September 1752, was to be accounted the 14th of September.
See the new Cyclopedia, title Calendar.
    A particular account of the manner in which this act was got through the parliament, is given by
lord Chesterfield in his letters to his son.
    The new style as it was called, is now fully established; but it seems to be proper that this statute,
by which it was made, should be incorporated with our laws; as to that part, and as to a part of the