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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   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 unde● and to give ●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 S●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