Imagens das páginas
PDF
ePub

reports,

&c. shall

in our courts.

What law adjudication, decision or opinion made, had, or given in any court of law or equity in Greatnot be read Britain, any cause depending, nor any printed or written report or statement thereof, nor any compilation, commentary, digest, lecture, treatise or other explanation or exposition of the common law, made, had, given, written or composed since the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, in Great Britain, or elsewhere, without the present boundaries of the United States of North-America, shall be received or read in any court of law or equity in this state, as law, or evidence of the law, or elucidation, or explanation thereof, any practice, opinion or sentiment of the said courts of justice, used, entertained or expressed, to the contrary notwithstanding.

2. And be it enacted, That if any practising counsellor, solicitor, or attorney at law, shall read or offer to read in any court of law or equity in this state, any adjudication, decision or opinion, contrary to the restrictions contained in this act, then and in such case he shall Penalty. be excluded from pleading or acting in any wise as a counsellor, solicitor, or attorney at law, in any of the courts of this state for one whole year next succeeding, and the judges and justices of the several courts are hereby directed to the strictest observance of this act. 3. And be it enacted, That the fifth section of the act entitled "An act relative to statutes," Former passed the thirteenth day of June, seventeen act repeal- hundred and ninety-nine, and the supplement made thereto, passed the twentieth day of November, eighteen hundred, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

[Rev.436]

ed.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled, "An act partially to repeal part of an act therein named,"

Passed December 1, 1801.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act entitled "An act partially to repeal part of an act therein named," passed the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

[Residue of this act is obsolete, and the law of 17th March 1795 (Revision 178) remains in full operation.]

Act re

pealed..

A Supplement to the act entitled "An act making provision for working and repairing the highways," passed March 16th, 1798.

Passed December 2, 1801.

any

[Rev. 325]

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That where any overseer of the roads of township in this state, neglects the duty required of him by law, such overseer shall be Mode of liable to an action for said neglect: and it shall prosecuting overbe, and is hereby the duty of any magistrate in seers of said township, or in any adjacent township, the roads for neglect upon the complaint preferred, in writing, by any three inhabitants of this state, being freeholders, to issue his precept for said overseer, to whose charge and care the said road has been assigned, and upon conviction, to fine the said overseer in any sum not exceeding eight dollars nor under three dollars, to and for the use

be allow

of the township, to be applied towards the repair of the roads, with costs of suit: Provided, That in those townships where the roads are worked by hire, if the said overseer should Excuse to make it appear, that there was not any money in his nor in the collector's hands for repairing said road, it shall be deemed a sufficient excuse to exonerate him from said fine: and the township shall be liable to such fine and penal ties, agreeable to the before recited act.

ed.

[Rev. 428]

Examiners to reduce

the testi

mony to writing, &c.

A Supplement to the act entitled "An act respecting the court of Chancery."

Passed December 3, 1801.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all examination of witnesses hereafter to be taken or made use of at the hearing of all causes now depending or which hereafter shall be brought in the court of chancery of this state, shall be taken and reduced to writing, by examiners of the said court, or before any commissioner or commissioners appointed by the chancellor, (and who are hereby authorized to administer the oath or affirmation to the Sect. 35.1 witnesses) and that either of the parties in the cause shall and may, in their proper persons, or by their solicitors or counsel, have liberty to examine and cross-examine such witnesses; all which examinations so taken, and filed with the clerk of said court, shall be made use of and read in evidence upon the hearing of the cause, saving all legal exceptions.-Provided always, That twenty days notice of the time

[Rev. 432

days no

and place of taking such examinations be given Twenty by the party or parties requesting the same, tice to be his, her, or their solicitor or council, to the op- given. posite party or parties, his, her or their solicitor or counsel.

AN ACT to incorporate into a township a part of the townships of Northampton, Evesham, and Little-Egg-Harbour, in the county of Burlington, by the name of Washington.

Passed November 19, 1802.

WHEREAS a number of the inhabitants of the townships of Northampton, Evesham, and Little-Egg-Harbour, in the county of Preamble. Burlington, have, by their petition, set forth to the legislature the disadvantages they labor under by reason of the great extent of the said townships; for remedy whereof,

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that part of the townships of Northampton, Evesham, and Little-Egg-Harbour, the new lying within the following bounds: Beginning township, at the mouth of Wading-River, and running

up the same, the several courses thereof, to the mouth of Tub-Mill branch; thence up the said branch, the several courses thereof, to the head; from thence to a point of fast-land known by the name of Breakfast-point; from thence a direct course to a bridge called Joseph M. Lawrie's bridge, near the head of a stream of water called Poppuse-run; from thence, on a direct course, until it strikes a bridge at the head of the Union-Forge pond; from thence a straight

Bounds of

line to Muskingum bridge; from thence on a straight line, to Atsion-creek, above GoshenMill; from thence down Atsion-creek, the several courses thereof, to Mullicas-river, and down the same, the several courses thereof, to the place of beginning, at the mouth of Wading-river, shall be, and is hereby set off from the said townships of Northampton, Evesham and Little-Egg-Harbour, and made a separate township, to be called by the name of the townington. ship of Washington.

of Wash.

2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the said township of Washington shall be, and they are hereby vested with, and entitled unto all the powers, privileges and authorities, and shall be and are hereby made subject to the like regulations and government which the inhabitants of the aforesaid townships of Northampton, Evesham and Little-Egg-Harbour, are subject and entitled to; and that the inhabitants of the said township of Washington be, Incorpo- and they are hereby incorporated, styled and rated by known by the name of "The inhabitants of the township of Washington, in the county of Burlington," and entitled to all the privileges, authorities and advantages, that the other townships in the said county are entitled unto by virtue of an act, entitled, "An act incorporating the inhabitants of townships, designating their powers and regulating their meetings, [Rev.276] passed the twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

the name of; &c.

Townmeeting

when and where to

be held.

3. And be it enacted, That the first townmeeting of the inhabitants, after the passing of this act, shall be on the second Tuesday of March next, at the house of John Bodine, at Wading-river bridge, and that all town-meet

« AnteriorContinuar »