Published under the authority of 23 Vic. cap. 10, and 24 Vic. cap. 3.

EDWARD PALMER,
JOHN LONGWORTH,
WILLIAM H. POPE,

Commissioners.

A TABLE OF ALL THE ACTS PRINTED IN THIS

VOLUME.

13th George 3d, 1773,

1. An Act for confirming the past proceedings of His Majesty's Governor and Council, antecedent to the calling of a General Assembly,

II. An Act to confirm and make valid in law all manner of process and proceedings in the several Courts of Judicature within this Island, from the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixtynine, to this present session of Assembly,

V. An Act for ascertaining damages on protested Bills of exchange,

L An Act for regulating fees,

16th George 3d, 1776.

IV. An Act to confirm and make valid in law all manner of process and proceedings in His Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island, from the twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, to this present session of Assembly,

20th George 3d, 1780.

V. An Act for preventing the running at large of stone horses or stallions, and the killing of partridges at improper seasons,

20th George 3d, 1780.

I. An Act for establishing and regulating a Militia,

II. An Act to enable proprietors to divide their lands held in common, and for ascertaining the mode of carrying such division into execution,

III. An Act for the due observance of the Lord's day,

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IX. An Act to enable creditors to recover their just debts out of the effects of their absent or absconding debtors,

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21st George 3d, 1781.

II. An Act relating to wills, legacies and executors, and for the settle-
ment and distribution of the estates of intestates,

IV. An Act for determining differences by arbitration or umpirage,
XI. An Act for amending and rendering perpetual several laws near
expiring,

XVII. An Act for the limitation of actions, and for avoiding lawsuits,

25th George 3d, 1785.

VI. An Act for establishing the rate of interest,

VIII. An Act for admitting depositions, de bene esse, of witnesses, aged, infirm, or otherwise unable to travel, and of witnesses departing from this Island,

X. An Act for permitting persons of the profession of the people called quakers to make an affirmation instead of taking an oath,

26th George 3d, 1786.

III. An Act for preventing abatement and discontinuance of suits,
IV. An Act for amending defects in pleas, processes and records,
VII. An Act for reformation of jeofails and mispleadings, and to prevent
arrests and reversals of judgments, and for the better advancement
of justice,

IX. An Act for more especially making lands and tenements liable for the
payment of debts; also, to enable the holders of mortgages to sell
the premises mortgaged to them more speedily and at less expense
than heretofore; as also to repeal an Act made in the twenty-first
year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act making
lands and tenements liable for the payment of debts,

XIII. An Act for the trial of actions in a summary way,

XIV. An Act to prevent the multiplicity of law suits,

30th George 3d, 1790.

II. An Act to establish authenticated copies of the records of His Majesty's
Council of this Province as legal evidence,

IV. An Act for repealing so much of an Act made and passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend, render more effectual, and reduce into one Act, all the Acts made by the General Assembly of this Island concerning bail, and to prevent frivolous and vexatious arrests," as relates to the attachment of the goods, chattels or estate of any debtor or debtors,

V. An Act to empower the Lieutenant Governor to give grants of lands, under the great seal of this Island, to such loyalists and disbanded troops as are in the occupation thereof, by virtue of locations formerly made by the Governor and Council,

VI. An Act for quieting the minds of His Majesty's dissenting Protestant subjects in the Island of Saint John,

31st George 3d, 1790.

II. An Act for the more speedy assignment and recovery of dower,
V. An Act for regulating the fees of magistrates and constables in certain
cases, and for amending an Act made and passed in the sixteenth
year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act in addition to and
amendment of an Act made and passed in the thirteenth year of
his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for the more easy
and speedy recovery of small debts,"

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35th George 3d, 1795.

II. An Act for confirming titles and quieting possessions,

VIII. An Act to alter and amend an Act made and passed in the twentysixth year of His Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for more especially making lands and tenements liable to the payment of debts; and also to enable the holders of mortgages to sell the premises mortgaged to them more speedily and at less expense than heretofore; as also to repeal an Act made in the twenty-first year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act making lands and tenements liable to the payment of debts,"

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36th George 3d, 1796.

IV. An Act to explain and amend an Act made and passed in the twentieth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to enable the proprietors to divide their lands held in common, and for ascertaining the mode of carrying such division into execution,

V. An Act to prevent disorderly persons from taking and riding or using the horses of others, without their leave or permission,

VII. An Act for appointing Commissioners of sewers,

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