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24 GEO. 2, CAP. 23, COMMENCEMENT OF YEAR. 1031 Time of the Beginning of any Month, to be computed accord- ing to the said new Calendar, but that from and after the said second Day of September, the said Courts of Session and Exchequer, the said April Meeting, and all such Markets, Fairs and Marts as aforesaid, and all Courts incident or belonging thereto, shall be holden and kept upon, or according to the same natural Days, upon or according to which the same should have been so kept or holden, in ease this Act had not been made; that is to say, eleven Days later than the same would have happened, according to the nominal Days of the said new Supputation of Time, by which the Commencement of each Month, and the nominal Days thereof are anticipated or brought forward by the space of eleven Days, any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise not- withstanding. V. And whereas, according to divers Customs, Prescriptions and Usages, in certain Places, within tins Kingdom, certain Lands and Grounds are, on particular nominal Days and Times of the Year, to be opened for Common of Pasture, and other Purposes; and at other Times, the owners and occupiers of such Lands and (Grounds have a Right to inclose or shut up the same for their own private Use; and there is in many other Instances, a temporary and distinct Property and Right vested in different Persons, in and to many such Lands and Grounds, according to certain nominal Days and Times in the Year; And whereas the anticipating or bringing forward the said * nominal Days and Times, by the Space of eleven Days, 773 according to the said new Method of Supputation, might be attended with many Inconveniences; Be it therefore further declared, provided and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That nothing hi this Act contained shall extend, or be con- strued to extend, to accelerate or anticipate the Days or Times for the opening, inclosing, or shutting up any such Lands or Grounds as aforesaid, or the Days or Times on which any such temporary or distinct Property or Right in or to any such Lands or Grounds as aforesaid is to commence; but that all such Lands and Grounds as aforesaid shall from and after the said second Day of September be from Time to Time, respec- tively opened, inclosed or shut up, and such temporary and dis- tinct Property and Right in and to such Lands and Grounds as aforesaid, shall commence and begin upon the same natural |
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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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