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Form of affirmation.

False affirma

tion punished as perjury.

Affirmations

not admitted in

criminal prose

cutions.

Persons professing to be Quathey have been

kers, to affirm

so for one year.

Public Act.

wit: I, A. B., do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare and affirm: Which solemn affirmation being duly administered, shall be adjudged and taken to be of the same force and effect, in all cases where by law an oath shall or may be required, as if such Quakers had taken an oath in the usual form.

II. And be it further enacted, That all persons who shall or may have made such solemn affirmation, and who shall or may have been duly convicted of having wilfully, falsely and corruptly affirmed any thing, which, if the same had been sworn in the usual form of an oath, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt perjury, are hereby made to incur the same penalties as other persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury provided, nevertheless, that no Quaker, or reputed Quaker, shall, by virtue of this Act, be admitted to give evidence in any criminal prosecution whatever, under the sanction of such solemn declaration or affirmation: provided also, that no person or persons whatever shall be deemed or construed to be Quakers, within the true intent and meaning of this Act, except such as shall affirm, in the form before directed, that he, she or they, is or are of the said profession of people called Quakers, and have been so for one year next before such affirmation made.

III. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed to be a public Act, and be judicially taken notice of as such.

CAP XI.

Disallowed by
His Majesty in
Council.

An Act to repeal an Act made and passed in the sixteenth year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for regulating Fees.

CAP. XII.

An Act directing the Register of this Island to procure new Disallowed by His Majesty in and sufficient bound Books, for the purpose of properly reCouncil. recording all the Grants, Deeds of Sale, Conveyances, Leases, and other Writings belonging or relating to this Island, which arenow entered or recorded in several small unbound Books hereafter mentioned: also empowering the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Commander-in-Chief for the time being, and His Majesty's Council, to destroy the said several small unbound Books, after having been fairly extracted and copied as hereinafter is prescribed.

CAP. XIII.

An Act for continuing sundry Laws that are near expiring. Expired.

CAP. XIV.

An Act for granting the sum of one hundred and sixty-one Executed. pounds two shillings and eleven pence for the support of

His Majesty's Government.

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO

GEORGII III. REGIS.

1786.

Lt. Governor.

At the General Assembly of His Majesty's Island of SAINT W. PATTERSON, JOHN, begun and holden at CHARLOTTETOWN, the Twentyfirst day of March, Anno Domini 1785, in the Twenty-fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, President of by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith:

And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the fifteenth day of March, 1786, and in the twenty-sixth year of His said Majesty's Reign; being the second Session of the fourth General Assembly convened in the said Island.

P. CALLBECK,

Council.

A. FLETCHER,
Speaker.

CAP. I.

An Act to alter, amend, and reduce into one Act, an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of His present Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for raising a fund to make and keep in repair the streets and wells of Charlottetown."

NOTE.-The provisions of this Act affect the titles to lands, but are omitted pursuant to 12 Vic., c. 23.

** For other Acts which have reference to this subject, see 30 G. 3, c. 3; 41 G. 3, c. 3; 48 G. 3, c. 7; 52 G. 3, c. 6; 6 G. 4, c. 9; 8 G. 4, c. 11; 10 G. 4, c. 17; 1 W. 4, c. 17; 3 W. 4, c. 37; 4 W. 4, c. 11; 6 Vic. c. 4, and 10 Vic. c. 5.

Expired.

Suspended by 6
W. 4, c. 9.
Repealed by 7
Vic., cap. 3.

CAP. II.

An Act for the relief of Insolvent Debtors.

CAP. III.

Plaintiff or defendant dying between interlocutory and

final judgment, action not to abate.

Action may be proceeded upon notwithstand

ing the death of one of the parties.

Death of either

BE

An Act for preventing abatement and discontinuance of Suits. E it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That from and after the publication hereof, in all actions to be commenced in His Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature, or in any other Courts of Record which now are or which hereafter shall or may be established within this Island, if any plaintiff happen to die after interlocutory judgment, and before a final judgment shall have been obtained therein, the said action shall not abate by reason thereof, provided such action might be originally prosecuted or maintained by the executors or administrators of such plaintiff; and if the defendant die after such interlocutory judgment, and before final judgment therein obtained, the said action shall not abate, if such action might be originally prosecuted or maintained against the executors or administrators of such defendant and such Court is hereby empowered to try the said action, and to determine and give judgment thereon, in the same manner as if the said suit had been commenced by or against such executors or administrators, as in right of their testators or intestates.

II. And be it further enacted, That if there be two or more plaintiffs or defendants, and one or more of them should die, if the cause of such action shall survive to the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs, or against the surviving defendant or defendants, the writ or action shall not be thereby abated; but such death, being suggested upon the record, the action shall proceed at the suit of the surviving plaintiff or plaintiffs, against the surviving defendant or defendants.

III. And be it further enacted, That in all actions, perparty between Sonal, real or mixed, the death of either party between the verdict and the judgment thereupon shall not be alleged for error, so as that such judgment be entered within two terms after such verdict.

verdict and judgment.

Judgment obtained by an executor or administrator.

No suit before

Justices shall

IV. And be it further enacted, That where any judgment, after verdict, shall have been had by or in the name of any executor or administrator, in such case an administrator de bonis non may sue forth a scire facias, and take execution upon such judgment.

V. And be it further enacted, That no process or suit before any of the Justices of His Majesty's Supreme Court of

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