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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52926	Acts and laws, passed by the general Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire in New-England, begun and held at Portsmouth, on Monday the seventh day of August, 1699, anno regni Gulielmi Tertii, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, et Hiberniae Regis undecimo; Laws, etc.	New Hampshire.; New Hampshire. General Assembly.	1699 (1699)	Wing N645; ESTC R12151	10,157	9

upon all dayes and times appointed for such Election And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there be a suitable person Chosen in each Town after the same manner used for Choice of other Officers to be Town Clerk to Serve in the said Office until another be Chosen and Sworn in his stead Town Clerk to be chosen and sworn and every such Town Clerk shall have an Oath Administred unto him by a Justice of the Peace well and truly to Execute the said Office and Trust A Tax An Act for a Tax or Assessment of Five Hundred Pounds WE His Majesties Loyal and Dutiful Subjects the Representatives of His Majesties Province of New Hampshire Convened in General Assembly do chearfully and unanimously give and grant unto His Most Excellent Majesty the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds in Money humbly beseeching Your Majesty that the same may be applyed and appropriated unto the sole and proper use of His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont Your Majesties Governour in Chief of this Province In Testimony of our great regard and respect unto His Lordship under whose happy Conduct we assure our selves to enjoy great quiet and felicity And pray that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted accordingly by the Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Assembly and by the Authority of the same That the said Sum of Five Hundred Pounds to and for the use aforesaid be Raised by a Tax or Assessment to be made and laid in manner as is hereafter expressed upon all persons and Estates both real and personal lying being and belonging to the several Towns and the Districts thereof within this Province according to each Towns proportion towards the same as followeth That is to say Â l s d Portsmouth One Hundred Twelve Pounds Fifteen Shillings 112 15 00 Hampton One Hundred Forty and Eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Nine Pence 148 18 09 Dover One Hundred Pounds Eleven Shillings Three pence 100 11 03 Exeter Ninety One Pounds Ten Shillings 91 10 00 New Castle Forty Six Pounds Five Shillings 46 05 00 And that the Treasurer send out his Warrant to the Constables of the respective Towns Requiring them to Assemble the Inhabitants to make choice of two Assessors where they are not already Chosen for the year to joyn with the Select-men in making the Rate and Assessment according to this Act to whom the Treasurer shall also give Warrants pursuant thereto And the Rates and Assessments so made to be committed to the Constables of the respective Towns by the last of September next ensuing with Warrants from a Justice of the Peace And the Select men and Assessors to Collect the same and pay unto the Treasurer for the time being in Mony by the Twentyeth Day of December next following Courts of Iustice An Act for Establishing Courts of Publick Justice within this Province WHEREAS the orderly Regulation and Establishing of Courts of Justice as well in respect of time as place for the bolding of the same doth very much tend to the Honour and Dignity of the Crown and to the ease and benefit of the Subject Justices of the Peace Impowred to hear determine causes of 40 s. value or under where title of of Land is not concerned Be it therefore Enacted by His Excellency the Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Assembly and by the Authority of the same That every Justice of the Peace in the same Town where he resides be and hereby is fully Authorized and Impowred to hear try and determine all Pleas and Actions of Debt and Trespass where Title of Land is not concerned arising or hapning within this Province to the value of Forty Shillings or undeâ— and to give â—udgment therein and to award Execution thereupon and either party agrieved at the Judgment or Sentence given by any such Justice in Civil Causes may appeal therefrom unto the next Inferiour Court of Common Pleas the party appealing giving Security before such Justice unto the Appellee in a reasonable Sum to prosecute his Appeal with effect Appeal and to answer and pay such Cost and Damages as shall be awarded against him in case the first Sentence be affirmed And for the better Conservation of the Peace and punishment of Offenders Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be Held and Kept by the Justices of the Peace within this Province or so many of them Court of Sessions of the Peace as shall be limited by the Commission of the Peace to make a Quorum Four Quarterly Courts or General Sessions of the Peace yearly at the Town of Portsmouth on the First Tuesdayes on the Months of March June September and December from time to time which said Court shall have Cognizance of all matters and things proper to the Jurisdiction of said Court relating to the Conservation of the Peace and punishment of Offenders according to the Laws and Statutes in force within this Province And the Sessions of the said Court shall hold and continue by the space of two dayes and no longer Inferiour Court of Common Pleas. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be Held and Kept at Portsmouth aforesaid an Inferiour Court of Common Pleas by four Justices to be appointed and Commissionated thereto by the Governour or in his absence the Commander in Chief for the time being any three of whom to make a Quorum the said Court to be held and begin at the time and dayes following That is to say on Thursday next after the rising of the Court of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace from time to time which said Inferiour Court of Common Pleas shall have Cognizance of hear try and determine all Actions Matters and Causes tryable at the Common Law not exceeding the Sum or value of Twenty Pounds and where Title of Land is not concerned and give Judgment therein and award Execution accordingly Provided nevertheless That either party agrieved at any Judgment or Sentence given in the said Court may appeal therefrom unto the next Superiour Court of Judicature Appeal such Appellant giving sufficient Security in double the Sâ—m or value recovered unto the Appellee before one or more of the Justices of the Inferiour Court to prosecute his Appeal with effect and to answer and pay such Costs and Damages as shall be awarded against him in case the first Sentence shall be affirmed Superiour Court of Judicature And further be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there be held and kept at Portsmouth aforesaid and not elsewhere within this Province a Superiour Court of Judicature by one chief Justice and three other Justices to be appointed and Commissionated thereto by the Governour or in his absence the Commander in Chief for the time being any three of whom to make a Quorum on the Second Tuesday in August and on the Second Tuesday in February yearly from time

to time which said Courts shall have Cognizance of all Pleas and Causes as well Civil not under the value of Twenty Pounds except where Title of Land is concerned as Criminal as fully and amply to all intents and purposes whatsoever as the Courts of Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer within His Majesties Kingdom of England have or ought to have and are hereby Impowred to give Judgment and award Execution therein and it shall be in the liberty of any Party Plaintiff or Defendant agrieved at any Judgment or Sentence given in the said Superiour Court to appeal therefrom unto the Governour and Council Appeal to the Governour and Council Provided the value appealed for exceed the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Sterling and that sufficient Security be given in manner as in and by this Act is before directed to prosecute the same and to pay such costs and damages as may be awarded in case the first Sentence shall be affirmed And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That in all Civil Causes to be commenced at the said Superiour Court of Judicature Appeal to His Majesty in Council where the matter in controversie exceeds the true value and Sum of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling it shall and may be in the liberty of the party agrieved to review the said Cause by a new Process out of the said Court once and no more and if either party shall not rest satisfied with the Judgment or Sentence of the said Superiour Court either upon the first Tryal or upon the Review such party may appeal therefrom unto His Majesty in Council Provided the matter in difference exceed the true value and Sum of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling and that such Appeals be made within fourteen days after Sentence given And that Security be likewise given by the Appellant to answer such Charges as shall be awarded in case the first Sentence shall be confirmed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Writs to issue forth of the Clerks Office That all Writs and Processes for bringing any Actions or Suits to Tryal in any of the Courts aforesaid shall be Summons Capias or Attachment and shall Issue out of the Clerks Office of the same Court under the Seal thereof and Signed by the Clerk and shall be directed to the Sheriff Under-Sheriff or Deputy For Tryals before a Justice to be granted by such Justice and Executed fifteen dayes before the day of the Courts Sitting and to be returned to the Court from whence the same Issued Writs or Processes for Tryal before a Justice of the Peace to be granted by such Iustice directed unto a Constable or Constables and to be Executed seven days before the day appointed for such Tryal to be returned to the Justice Reasons of Appeal to be filed in the Clerks Office And be it further Enacted That every person appealing from any Judgment or Sentence given in any of the Courts aforesaid shall file a Declaration in the Clerks Office of the Court appealed from therein briefly assigning the Errors in such Judgment fifteen days at least before the day of the Sitting of the Court appealed unto And if the Appeal be made from a Sentence or Judgment given by a Justice of the Peace such Declaration shall be filed with the Justice by the like time Power of Chancery in several cases Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That as well the Justices of the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas as the Justices of the Superiour Court of Judicature respectively where the forfeiture or penalty of any Obligation with a Condition under-written or a penalty annexed to any Articles Agreement Covenants Contracts Charter party or other Specialty or Forfeiture of any Estate granted upon condition executed by Deed of Mortgage or Bargain and Sale with defeazance shall be found by Verdict of Jury or by default or confession of the Obligor Mortgager or Vender are hereby Impowred and Authorized to moderate the Rigor of the Law And on consideration of such Cases according to equity and good Conscience to Chancer such Forfeiture and to enter up Judgment for the just Debt and Damages and to award Execution accordingly only in real Actions upon Mortgage and Bargain and Sale with defeazance the Judgment to be conditional that the Mortgager or Vender and his Heirs Executors or Administrators do pay unto the Plaintiff such Sum as the Court doth determine Justices of the Courts to be Sworn before the Governour or Commander in Chief or such as he shall appoint to be justly due thereupon within two months time after Judgment entred up for discharging of such Mortgage or Sale and that the Plaintiff recover possession of the Estate Sued for and Execution to be awarded for the same and the Justices of the said several Courts as well Superiour as Inferiour respectively shall take the Oath following to be Administreâ— to each of them by the Governour or in his absence by the Commander in Chief for the time being or such as shall be by him thereto appointed That is to say Oath YOU Swear That well and truly you shall Serve our Soveraign Lord the KING and His People in the Office of a Justice of the _____ Court of _____ And that you will do equal Law and Execution of Right to all people poor and rich after the Law 's in force within this Province and Usage within the same and in such cases as the Law doth specially provide to be relieved in equity there to proceed according to equity and good Conscience without having regard to any person whatsoever So help you God Any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Duties of Excise c. An Act for continuing several Rates and Duties of Custom Excise Impost and Powder Money on Tonnage of Shipping WHEREAS in and by one Act of General Assembly of this Province made and past in the Fourth Year of the Reign of KING William and Queen Mary Entituled An Act for defraying the Publick Charge of the Province there was given and granted unto Their said Majesties several Duties of Impost Excise and Tonnage of Shipping in the said Act particularly enumerated and set down Which said Duties have been and are continued by Acts since made until the fifth day of November next ensuing at which time they will expire unless revived by an Act of this Assembly Be it therefore Enacted by His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont Governour Council and Representatives Convened in General Assembly And it is hereby Enacted and Ordained vp the Authority of the same That from and after the fifth day of November next ensuing the several Rates and Duties set upon all Wines Liquors and Merchandizes that shall be Imported into this Province and all Duties of Tonnage and Excise in and by the said former Act of Impost and Excise Custom and Tonnage Money be and are hereby continued to be paid as in and by the said Act is directed for and during the space and time of one year That is to say until the fifth day of November which will be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand and Seven Hundred And the Money arising thereby to be applyed towards the Support of this His Majesties Government FINIS

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