this Province, and to appoint one or more Collector or Collectors at the same respectively. CHAPTER V. An ACT for applying a certain Sum of Money, therein mentioned, to make good certain Monies issued and advanced by His Majesty, through the Lieutenant-governor, in pursuance of two several Addresses of the Commons House of Assembly (£750, to encourage the growth of hemp, and £84. Os. 8d. for stationary, &c. for the clerks of parliament). STATUTES PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRD PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT, MET AT YORK, 24TH JANUARY, 1803. CHAPTER I. An ACT to allow Time for the Sale of Lands and Tenements by the Sheriff. CHAPTER II. An ACT to explain and amend an Act passed in the 41st Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT for granting to His Majesty, his Heirs, and Successors, to and for the Uses of this Province, the like Duties on Goods and Merchandize brought into this Province from the United States of America, as are now paid on Goods and Merchandise imported from Great Britain and other Places, and to provide more effectually for the Collection and Payment of Duties on Goods and Merchandize coming from the United States of America into this Province," and also to establish a Fund for the Erection and Repairing of Light-Houses. CHAPTER III. An ACT to authorize the Governor, LieutenantGovernor, or Person administering the Government of this Province, to licence Practitioners in Law. CHAPTER IV. An ACT to declare the Rights of certain Grantees of Waste Lands of the Crown. CHAPTER V. An ACT to enable married Women, having real estate, more conveniently to alien and convey the same. CHAPTER VI. An ACT for further altering and amending an Act passed in the 33d year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An Acт to encourage the Destroying of Wolves and Bears, in different Parts of this Province.” CHAPTER VII. An ACT to repeal, for a limited time, Part of an Act passed in the 34th Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT for the Regulation of Juries." CHAPTER VIII. An ACT to authorize the Attornies now practising, or hereafter to be duly admitted to practice, to take such Number of Clerks as therein mentioned (every attorney may take two clerks, and no more; the attorney and solicitor-general may take three, and no more). CHAPTER IX. An ACT for the better securing to His Majesty, his Heirs, and Successors, the due Collection and Receipt of certain Duties therein mentioned (inspectors to be appointed by the Governor, &c. as to licences for stills, and selling wine and spirits). CHAPTER X. An ACT to extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the 34th Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT to restrain the Custom of permitting Horned Cattle, Horses, Sheep, and Swine, to run at large." CHAPTER XI. An ACT the more conveniently to collect the Compensation to the Members of the House of Assembly, for their Attendance in their Duty in Parliament, and to repeal Part of an Act passed in the Parliament of this Province, in the 33d Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT to authorize and direct the laying and collecting of Assessments and Rates within this Province, and to provide for the Payment of Wages to the House of Assembly (members, having from the speaker a warrant of attendance, may demand 10s. per day from justices, which shall be levied by assessment). CHAPTER XII. An ACT particularizing the Property, real and personal, which, during the continuance thereof, shall be subject to Assessments and Rates, and fixing the several Valuations at which each and every Particular of such Property shall be rated and assessed (to continue four years). STATUTES PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRD PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT, MET AT YORK, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1804. CHAPTER I. An ACT for the better securing this Province against all seditious Attempts or Designs to disturb the tranquillity thereof (see this precious Act at length in the General Introduction). CHAPTER II. An ACT for the exemplary punishment of all and every Person and Persons who shall seduce, or attempt to seduce, or aid or assist, or attempt to aid or assist, any Soldier to desert His Majesty's Service, or who shall harbour, conceal, receive, or assist any Deserter from such Service. CHAPTER III. An Act to repeal certain Parts of an Act passed in the 34th Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT to establish a superior Court of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, and to regulate the Court of Appeal;" and to authorize His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, in this Province, to regulate certain Fees, Costs, and Charges therein mentioned. CHAPTER IV. An ACT to repeal so much of an Act passed in the 34th Year of His Majesty's Reign, entituled, "An ACT to restrain the Custom of permitting Horned Cattle, Horses, Sheep, and Swine to run at large," as relates to Sheep, and to restrain the Owners of Rams from permitting them to run at large during a certain Time of the Year (rams not to run at large between the 1st September and 20th December). VOL. II. |