Subjects inhabiting withing Our Province of New-Jersey, and of all Persons whatsoever in taking Recognizance of Special Bail upon all Actions and Suits depending, or to be depending in Our said Supreme Court in Our said Province of New-Jersey. We do hereby Impower any two of Our Judges of Our Supreme Court, of which Our Chief Justice to be always one, to grant one or more Commission or Commissions under the Seal of the said Supreme Court, from time to time, as need shall require, to impower such and so many Persons, as by Our said Chief Justice and other Judge of Our Supreme Court aforesaid, shall be thought fit and necessary, in all and every of the several Counties in our said Province of New-Jersey, to take and receive all and every such Recognizance or Recognizances of Bail or Bails, as any Person or Persons shall be willing and desirous to acknowledge or make before any of the Persons so impowered, in any Action or Suit depending, or hereafter to be depending in Our said Supreme Court of Our Province of New-Jersey, in such manner and Form, and by such Recognizance or Bail-Piece as the Judges of Our Supreme Court have here-to-fore used to take the same; Which said Recognizance or Recognizances of Bail or Bail-Piece shall be Transmitted to some one of the Judges of Our Supreme Court, and by him received, upon payment of the usual Fees, and Affidavits made, according to the Directions in one Act of the Parliament in England, made in the fourth and fifth years of the Reign of Our Royal Predecessors William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c., Entituled, An Act for taking Special Bails in the Country, upon Actions and Suits depending in the Courts of Kings-Bench, Common-Pleas and Exchequer at Westminster. Which Act of Parliament We hereby Recommend to Our Judges

of Our Supreme Court of Our said Province of New-Jersey, and to the Persons by them impowered to take and receive Recognizances of Special Bail, as a Direction to Govern themselves by, as nearly as the Circumstances of Our said Province of New-Jersey will admit the same to be done.

And Whereas the bringing of Jurors and Evidences from the several Counties within Our Province of NewJersey, will be at the great Charge and Expense of such of Our Loving Subjects as have Causes Depending, or that will be Depending in Our Supreme Court of Our said Province of New-Jersey, We do, for the ease and benefit of Our said Loving Subjects, further Ordain, That Our Chief Justice or other Justice of Our Supreme Court, shall annually and every Year (if there be occasion) go into every County in our said Province, except the Counties of Bergen and Cape-May, and there hold a Court for the Tryal of such Causes arising in the several and Respective Counties, as are brought to Issue in our said Supreme Court; which Causes our Chief Justice or other Justice of our said Supreme Court, is hereby Impowered to hear and try, by Jurors of the said Counties, and on any Verdict in any of the said Counties, within our said Province, Judgment to Give, at our next Supreme Court of Judicature, to be holden at our City of Perth-Amboy, or Town of Burlington, after such Verdict given in any of the said Counties, within our said Province of New-Jersey; which Court for Tryal of Causes shall be held in our several Counties, excepting Bergen and Cape-May, for and during a Term not exceeding Five Days, and at the Times and Places following, that

is to say,

For the Counties of Essex and Bergen, on the first Thursday after the second Monday of May, at Newark.

For the County of Somerset, the Thursday next ensuing after the fourth Monday of May, at the Court-house of the same County.

For the County of Monmouth, the first Tuesday of October, at Freehold.

For the County of Hunterdon, the fourth Monday of July, at Trent-Town.

For the County of Gloucester, the Thursday next ensuing after the third Monday of July, at Gloucester.

For the Counties of Salem and Cape-May, the third Monday of July.

Hereby Requiring and Commanding Our High-Sheriff, Justices of the Peace, the Mayor and Aldermen of any Corporation within any of Our said Counties, and all Officers, Magisterial and Ministerial of any Courts within Our said Counties, to be Attending on our Chief Justice, or other Justices going the Circuit, at his Coming into and Leaving their several Counties, and during his Abode within the same, on Penalty to be proceeded against according to Law, for their or any of their Neglect and Contempt of Our Royal Authority and Command hereby signified.

And it is further Ordained, That the Commissioners to be appointed for Taking of Special Bails in the respective Counties of this Province, for every Bail-piece taken by them, shall take the Sum of Three Shillings, and no more. And the Commissioners for Taking of Affidavits, for every Sheet in an Affidavit, One Shilling, and no

more.

In Testimony whereof We have caused these Our Letters • to be made Patent, and the Seal of Our Province of New-Jersey to be thereunto Affixed. Witness Our

Trusty & Well-beloved William Burnet, Esq., Capt. General and Governour in Chief of the Provinces of New-Jersey, New-York, and Territories thereon depending in America, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., in Council at Perth-Amboy, the 23rd Day of April, in the Tenth year of Our Reign, Annoq. Domini, 1724.

APPENDIX F.

An Ordinance for Regulating the Courts of Judicature in the Province of New-Jersey.

GEORGE, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. Whereas We have thought fit, by Advice of the most Honourable, the Lords of Our Privy Council, at Our Court at St. James's, on the Twentieth Day af January, in the Eighth Year of Our Reign, to Disallow some Laws or Acts of General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, made and Enacted by the Governour, Council and Representatives of that Province in General Assembly met, viz., One entituled, An Act for shortening of Law Suits and Regulating the Practice of the Law; One other Act, entituled, An Act for Acknowledging and Recording of Deeds and Conveyances of Land within each respective County of this Province; and one other Act, entituled, An Act for Enforcing the Observation of an Ordinance for Establishing Fees within this Province. And Whereas a late Ordinance for Establishing Courts of Judicature within the same Province, was in some measure made conformable to one of the said Laws, so as aforesaid Disallowed. And