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24 GEO. 2, CAP. 23, COMMENCEMENT OF YEAR. 1027 of December shall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the first Day of the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two; and the first Day of January, which shall happen next after the said first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, shall be reckoned, deemed, taken and accounted to be the first Day of the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-three; and so on, from Time to Time, the first Day of January in every Year, which shall happen in Time to come, shall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the first Day of the Year; and that each new Year shall accordingly commence, and begin to be reckoned, from the first Day of every such Mouth of January next preceding the twenty-fifth Day of March, on which such Year would, according to the present Supputation, have begun or commenced: And that from and after the said first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty two, the several Days of each Mouth shall go on. and be reckoned and num- bered in the same Order; and the Feast of Easter, and other moveable Feasts thereon depending, shall be ascertained ac- cording to the same Method, as they now are, until the second Day of September in the said Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two inclusive; and that the natural Day* next 769 immediately following the said second Day of September, shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be the fourteenth Day of September, omitting for that Time only the eleven interme- diate nominal Days of the common Calendar; and that the several natural Days, which shall follow and succeed next after the said fourteenth Day of September, shall be respectively called, reckoned and numbered forwards in numerical Order from the said fourteenth Day of September, according to the Order and Succession of Days now used in the present Cal- endar; and that all Acts, Deeds, Writings, Notes and other Instruments of what Nature or Kind soever, whether Ecclesias- tical or Civil. Publick or Private, which shall be made, ex- ecuted or signed, upon or after the said first Day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, shall bear Date ac- cording to the said new Method of Supputation, and that the two fixed Terms of St. Hilary and St Michael, in that Part of Great Britain called England, and the Courts of Great Ses- sions in the Counties Palatine, and in Wales, and also the Courts of General Quarter Sessions and General Sessions of (66) |
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