Acts [electronic resource], 1696-1740.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New Hampshire.

Contributor:

New Hampshire. General Assembly.

Great Britain. Colonial Office.

National Archives (Great Britain)

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

Series:

Colonial America (Marlborough, England)

Colonial America. Module 1

Standardized Title:

Laws, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--New Hampshire--Early works to 1800.

Law.

New Hampshire--Colonization--Early works to 1800.

New Hampshire.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century--Sources.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century--Sources.

Great Britain. Colonial Office--Archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 items)

Place of Publication:

1696-1740.

Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2015.

Contents:

An act about powder-money

An act against adultery and polygamy

An act against hawkers, pedlars and petty-chapmen

An act against high treason

An act against murder, et cetera

An act against receiving of stolen goods

An act against shipping horses without entry

An act against trespassing in town commons

An act appointing the sheriff to have the keeping of the common goal, and the prisoners therein

An act concerning marriages, births and burials

An act directing the admission of town inhabitants

An act for altering the time of the setting of the Superior Court of Judicature et cetera

An act for the better observation and keeping the Lords Day

An act for the better preservation of all mast trees, or white pine trees, within Her Majesty's province of New Hampshire

An act for the better regulating of town and proprietary meetings

An act for the better regulation of swine, going at large

An act for the better securing the payment of prison charges

An act for a constables watch

An act for the convenient and speedy assignment of Dower

An act for encouraging the killing of wolves

An act for the equal distribution of insolvent estates

An act for establishing Courts of Publick Justice within this province

An act for the establishing forms of oaths

An act for high-ways and repairing thereof

An act for the incouragement of the inhabitants of Her Majesties province of New Hampshire, in the making of tar, to be transported into Her Majesties Kingdom of Great Britain, and otherwise, for the incouragement of trade

An act for the inspecting and suppressing of disorders in licensed houses

An act for maintenance and supply of the ministry within this province

An act for making and emitting the sum of two thousand pounds in bills of credit on this province for the ends and purposes and in such manner as in the said acts are hereafter expressed

An act for making of lands and tenements liable to the payment of debts

An act for the more easy and speedy assessing and collecting the province rates and taxes

An act for the more safe and easy prosecuting writs of ejectment and writs of trespass and ejectment

An act for a new proportioning of the province tax to each town, parish and precinct within the province

An act for the partition of lands, and the recovery, et cetera

An act for passing sheriffs accompts

An act for the payment of cure of souldiers that are wounded

An act for preventing mens sons or servants absenting themselves from their parents or masters service, without leave

An act for preventing of trespasses

An act for prevention of common nusances arising by slaughter-houses, still-houses, et cetera, and curriers

An act for prevention of frauds and forgery, upon the bills of credit in use in this and the neighbouring provinces

An act for providing for posthumous children

An act for providing of pounds and to prevent rescous, and pound-breach

An act for the punishing criminal offenders

An act for recording deeds, and conveyances

An act for regulating cattle, corn-fields, and fences

An act for regulating fees

An act for regulating ferries

An act for regulating the fishery

An act for the regulating of the militia

An act for the regulating of mills

An act for regulating of prisons, and to prevent escapes

An act for regulating of tanners, curriers, and cordwainers, and for the better preventing of deceits, and abuses by tanners, curriers, dressers or workers up of leather

An act for regulating of tryals in civil causes

An act for regulating weights and measures

An act for regulation of seamen

An act for relief of ideots and distracted persons

An act for the repealing the act about bankrupts

An act for restraining inhumane severities

An act for the settlement and distribution of the estates on intestates

An act for settling a salary of two hundred pounds sterling or six hundred pounds province bills of credit and annum on His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq., Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the province aforesaid

An act for the supply of the Treasury with the sum of six thousand five hundred pounds in bills of credit for the discharge of the publick debts of this province and for other purposes in this act hereafter mentioned

An act for suppressing and punishing of rogues, vagabonds, common beggars, and other lewd, idle, and disorderly persons, and also for setting the poor to work

An act for suppressing robberies and assaults

An act for taking affidavits out of court

An act forasmuch as sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and constables, have oftentimes need of aid, and assistance in the execution of their respective offices

An act in addition to an act entitled an act for regulating fees

An act in addition to an act entitled an act for regulating the militia

An act in addition to an act made and passed in January 1715 - entitled an act for the inspecting and suppressing disorders in licenced houses

An act in addition to and for rendring more effectual an act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of King William the Third entitled an act against trespassing in town commons and an act made in the sixth year of Queen Ann entitled an act for preventing trespasses

An act more effectually to prevent the counterfeiting the bills of credit on this province

An act of privilege to the members of the General Assembly

An act prescribing forms of writs in civil causes

An act prohibiting the importation or bringing into this province any Indian, servant or slaves

An act providing in case of sickness

An act regulating to strays, and lost goods

An act relating to appeals from judgment in bar, or abatement

An act relating to attorneys

An act relating to executors and administrators

An act relating to the office and duty of a coroner

An act relating to sureties upon mean process in civil actions

An act requiring all persons to take the oaths appointed to be taken in stead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy

An act to enable creditors, to receive their just debts, out of the effects of their absent, or absconding debtors

An act to enable towns, villages, and proprietors in common and undivided lands, to sue, and be sued

An act to exempt those people called Quakers from gathering the rates for the ministers of other persuations within the province of New Hampshire

An act to prevent causeless arrests, et cetera

An act to prevent charges arising upon this province, for prisoners committed for theft

An act to prevent the concealing estates from assessors

An act to prevent damages by horses

An act to prevent default in appearance of jurors

An act to prevent the destroying and murdering of bastard children

An act to prevent disorders in the night

An act to prevent fraud in cord wood, exposed to sale

An act to prevent impounding cattel wrongfully

An act to prevent incestuous marriages

An act to prevent incroachment upon high-wayes

An act to prevent trespasses in cutting down trees upon land without fence

An act to return able and sufficient jurors to serve in the several Courts of Justice, and to regulate the election of representatives to serve in the General Assembly within this province

An additional act for the more equal assessing and collecting of publick taxes, in this province

Front matter and contents list for CO 5/948.

Notes:

Volume title from publisher's website (resource viewed on 7 Oct. 2015)

Volume reference numbers: CO 5/948.

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