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For the statement above quoted, also for full bibliographical information regarding this publication, and for the contents of the volumes [1st ser.] v. 1- 7th series, v. 5, cf. Griffin, Bibl. of Amer. hist. society. 2d edition, 1907, p. 346-360.

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Page 631 - Act passed in the first year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the first, intituled " An Act for the further security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and the Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret Abettors...
Page 632 - Kingdoms, as, after the time therein limited, requires the delivery of certain lists and copies, therein mentioned, to persons indicted of high treason or misprision of treason...
Page 631 - ... by an Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King William the Third...
Page 667 - And whereas by an Act made in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled " An Act for preventing Frauds, and regulating abuses in the Plantation Trade...
Page 659 - And you are to take especial Care, that a Table of Marriages established by the Canons of the Church of England...
Page 637 - To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act, such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 668 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English...
Page 630 - You are with all convenient speed to repair to our said Province, and being there arrived, you are to take upon you the Execution of the Place and Trust we have reposed in you, and forthwith to call together the following Persons, whom we do by these Presents appoint and constitute Members of our Council in and for that Province, viz.
Page 648 - Council, execution be suspended until the final determination of such appeals, unless good and sufficient security be given by the appellee to make ample restitution of all that the appellant shall have lost by means of such judgment or decree, in case upon the determination of such appeal decree or judgment should be reversed and restitution awarded to the appellant.
Page 639 - Commissioners for Trade and plantations, and duplicates thereof by the next Conveyance; in which Books shall be specified, every particular Sum raised or Disposed of together with the Names of the persons to whom any payment shall be made, to the End We may be satisfied of the Right and due application of the Revenue...

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