Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800

Front Cover
 

Selected pages

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 553 - Council, so appointed and nominated, or the major part thereof, shall have power and authority to make Ordinances for the peace, welfare, and good government of the said province, with the consent of His Majesty's Governor, or, in his absence, of the Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander in Chief for the time being.
Page 249 - Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That...
Page 379 - ... may it therefore pleafe your Majefty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords...
Page 339 - ... an act made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled ' An Act for the Encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation trade...
Page 317 - These are therefore to command you the said constable of to take the said AB, and him safely to convey to the [House of Correction] at aforesaid, and there deliver him to the keeper thereof, together with this precept : And I do hereby command you, the said keeper of the said...
Page 113 - An Act to prevent paper bills of credit hereafter to be issued in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America from being declared to be a legal tender in payments of money, and to prevent the legal tender of such bills as are now subsisting from being prolonged beyond the periods limited for calling in and sinking the same.
Page 136 - ... engine, or deceitful conveyance, for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year, of and for their money or other thing, above the sum of...
Page 24 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery...
Page 13 - Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 567 - ... there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.

Bibliographic information