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1046 35 GEO. 2, CAP. 30, COMMENCEMENT OF YEAR. entering upon the Execution of their respective Offices, or for any other Purpose which by Law, Charter, Custom or Usage, are to be holden on any fixed or certain Day of any Month, shall from and after the said second Day of September, be holden and kept upon or according to the same respective nomi- nal Days and Times whereon the same are then to be holden; but which should be computed according to the New Method of numbering and reckoning the Days of the Calendar as therein mentioned, as by the said Act may more fully appear: And whereas by the Charters, Custom or Usage of some Cities, Boroughs, Towns or other Communities, or Bodies Politick or Corporate, the Election of Officers, or the Entrance of Officers on the Execution of their Offices, or the doing of some other Corporate Acts, may be fixed or required to be on some cer- tain nominal Day or Days of the said Month of September, falling between the second and fourteenth Days of the same Month, which said nominal Days are by the said Act required to be dropt or omitted for this present Year, so that there will not in Fact be any nominal Days between the said second and fourteenth Days of the said Month of September for this pre- sent Year, whereon such corporate Acts can be done; and Doubts have arisen whether such corporate Acts may be done at all without a special Provision for that Purpose, by Authority of Parliament; and Inconveniences may possibly ensue for want thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in thin present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for all such Bodies Politick and Corporate as aforesaid, and all and every the Officers and Members thereof, and they and every of them are hereby required to do all such Acts, as by any Law, Char- ter or Usage are appointed or required to be done on any of 787* the nominal Days of or in the said Month of Septem- ber, which by the said recited Act are directed to be dropt or omitted for this present Year, upon the same natural Day or Days of this Year only as such Acts would, might or ought to be done, in case the said recited Act had not been made; and that all Acts so done in pursuance hereof shall be deemed and |
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