Suspending clause. Island, of such proportions of the aforementioned resigned Lands as are now in the possession of such Loyalists and reduced officers and soldiers, by virtue of, and under the authority of the Governor and Council of this Island, as have not received deeds or grants from the said proprietors. II. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall have any effect until His Majesty's pleasure shall be known. This Act received His Majesty's Allowance, July 31, 1793. Dissenters to have liberty of CAP. VI. An Act for quieting the minds of His Majesty's dissenting WHEREAS a groundless report has prevailed, of an inten tion upon the part of Government to subject His Majesty's dissenting Protestant subjects to the payment of Tithes, and other rates and taxes, for the support of the Established Church of England: I. Be it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, That Protestants dissenting from the Church of onscience, &c. England, whether they be Presbyterians, Quakers, or any other denomination whatsoever, shall have free liberty of conscience; and may erect and build Meeting houses for public worship; and may choose and elect ministers or pastors for performing divine service, and the administration of sacraments, according to their several opinions: and all contracts made between such dissenting ministers and their congregations, for the support of the ministry, are hereby declared valid, and shall have their full force and effect, according to the tenor and condition of such contracts: and all such dissenters shall be excused, and are hereby exempted and excused, from the payment of any rates or taxes to be made and levied for the support of the Established Church of England in this and exempted from the payment of rates, &c., uspending clause. Island. II. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be of any force or effect, until His Majesty's pleasure is known. This Act received His Majesty's allowance, July 31, 1793. CAP. VII. An Act to oblige the respective Proprietors of Lots or Townships of Land, or of parts of Lots or Townships of Land, in this Island, and who have contributed nothing towards the settlement or improvement of this Island, and whose lands lie in a waste and uncultivated state, to pay their proportion of the public charges for the making and repairing of the Highways, Roads and Bridges of the said Island. This Aet gave a summary power to three Justices of the Peace to assess the Township Lands of Proprietors for the purpose of making and repairing Roads and Bridges, but as the power of the Justices was thereby expressly limited in its exercise to those Townships only in which less than ten persons liable to Statute Labor were resident; and as the inhabitants of the least populous Township in this Island now far exceed that number, the Act has in consequence become inoperative - it is therefore unnecessary to reprint the same. CAP. VIII. An Act for taking special Bail in the country, upon actions Repealed by depending in His Majesty's Supreme Court of this Province. 12 Vic. c. 17. CAP. IX. An Act to prevent the malicious killing, wounding or maim- Repealed by 12 ing of Cattle. Vic. c. 16. САР. Х. An Act to prevent unnecessary expense and delays in certain actions wherein judgments have passed by default. Repealed by 6 G. 4, c. 5. ANNO TRICESIMO PRIMO GEORGII III. REGIS. 1790. E. FANNING, At the General Assembly of His Majesty's Island of SAINT JOHN, begun and holden at CHARLOTTETOWN, the Twentysecond day of March, Anno Domini 1790, in the Thir- Lt. Governor. tieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, 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 tenth day of November, 1790, and in the thirty-first year of His said Majesty's reign; being the second Session of the sixth General Assembly convened in the said Island. P. STEWART, J. ROBINSON, CAP. I. An Act for admitting persons to swear to their own accounts in certain cases, and for amending certain practical parts of the law, in order to the more easy and speedy attainment of public justice in this Island. Repealed by 12 CAP. II. Heir, &c., to render dower within two months next after demand, or An Act for the more speedy assignment and recovery of dower. WHE HEREAS certain provisions and directions in the law are become necessary, for the more speedy and less expensive remedy in the recovery of dower, by such persons as are by law dowable of houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments in this Island: I. Be it therefore enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly,, and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted, That in all cases where any person or persons whatsoever having the freehold of any houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments within this Island, shall neglect to assign and set out to the widow of the deceased, her just or full third part of such houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments, within two months next after demand shall have been made by her of the person or persons so having the freehold thereof, it shall and may be lawful to and for such widow, to sue for and recover her said dower, by writ of unde nihil unde nihil habet, habet, against such person or persons as hath or have the freehold of such houses, lands, tenements and hereditaments, in the form following, that is to say Widow may have writ of for the recovery thereof. Writ of dower. 'GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great 'Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To the Sheriff (or Provost Marshal, as the case may be,) of 'our Island of Saint John, greeting: 'Command A. B. of, &c., that justly and without delay render unto C. D., the wife of E. F., late of, &c., 'deceased, her reasonable dower, which happens to her of a 'certain house, &c., (as the case may be) with the appurtenances, situate in, &c., in possession of the said A. B., and 'which was in the seizin and possession of her said husband, ' and whereof he was seized in his demesne as of fee, during the coverture, and whereof she hath nothing (as she saith), ' and the said C. D. complains that the said A. B. hath de'forced her thereof. And unless the said A. B. shall so do, C then summon the said A. B. that be before the Jus 'tices of our Supreme Court of Judicature, to be holden at 'Charlottetown, upon the Tuesday in then and C there to shew cause, why to the said C. D. her reasonable C dower as aforesaid 'then there this writ. doth not render. And have you Witness, &c., at our Supreme Court day of in the year of our reign, L. M., Clerk. |