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A. D. 1751 Boat-mater anwerable for Damages done by his Boat or Crew. Jutice to inquire into, and order the Recompence. Penalty of obtructing the Paage of other Veels, or of the opening or hutting the Locks, &c. Penalty on Waterman carrying a Gun or Net to fowl or fih with. Application of the Forfeiture, &c. Perons aggrieved by the Order of any Jutice, may appeal to the Seions. Order of the Jutices not removeable by Certiorari. No Order of the Commiioners to be quahied for want of Form. Commiioners may borrow Money on the Tolls." CAP. XX. An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Preton to Lancater, and from thence to a Place called Heiring Syke, that divides the Counties oi Lancater and Wetmorland. P R. [Certain Tolls granted for 21 Years.] CAP. XXI. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft paffed in the third Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, For repairing and amending the feveral Roads leading /'ro?n'W oodRock through Kid^ din^ton i7?z<^ Enflone ?o Rollright Lane, <?«.-/ yroOT Enflow Bridge to Kiddington aforefaid, in the County of Oxford ; and for making the faid Adi more effedlual. P R. [The Aft 3 Geo. 2. c. 21. continued for 21 Years, i^c]  CAP. XXII. An Act for explaining and amending fo much of an Aft paffed in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty for the repairing and enlarging the Roads from the Town of Selby in the Wefi: Riding of the County of Tork, to the Town of Leeds; and from thence, in two feveral Branches, one through Bradford itnA Horton, and the other through B'vzvling and IVibfey, to the Town of Halifax in the fame Riding, as relates to that Part of the faid Roads which lies between Selby and Leeds ; and alfo for re- pairing the Road from Tadcajicr in the faid Weft Riding, over Bramham Moor through Kidhall Lane, over IVin ALoor, and through Scqcroft to a Place called Halton Dyal, where it comes into the abovefaid Road, between Selby and Leeds. PR. [The Aft 14 Geo. 2. c. 32. continued for 21 Years, and amended.]

HEREAS the legal Supputation of the Year of our Lord in that Part of Great Britain called England, according to which the Year beginneth on the 25th Day of March, hath been found by Experience to be attended with divers Inconveniencies, not only as it differs from the Uage of neighbouring Nations, but alo from the legal Method of Computation in that Part of Great Britain called Scotlond [sic], and from the common Uage throughout the whole Kingdom, and thereby frequent Mitakes are occaioned in the Dates of Deeds, and other Writings, and Diputes arie therefrom: And whereas the Calendar now in Ue throughout all his Majesty's Britih Dominions, commonly called The Julian Calendar, hath been dicovered to be erroneous, by means whereof the Vernal or Spring Equinox, which at the Time of the General Council of Nice in the Year of our Lord three hundred and twenty-five, happened on or about the twenty-firt Day of March, now happens on the ninth or tenth Day of the ame Month; and the aid Error is still increaing, and if not remedied, would, in Proces of Time, occaion the everal Equinoxes and Soltices to fall at very different Times in the Civil Year from what they formerly did, which might tend to milead Perons ignorant of the aid Alteration: And whereas a Method of correcting the Calendar in uch manner, as that the Equinoxes and Soltices may for the future fall nearly on the ame nominal Days, on which the ame happened at the Time of the aid General Council, hath been received and etablihed, and is now generally practied by almot all other Nations of Europe: And whereas it will be of general Convenience to Merchants, and other Perons correponding with other Nations and Countries, and tend to prevent Mitakes and Diputes in or concerning the Dates of Letters, and Accounts, if the like Correction be received and etablihed in his Majety's Dominions:' May it therefore pleae your Majety, that it may be enacted, and be it en- acted by the King's mot Excellent Majety, by and with the Advice and Conent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preent Parliament aembled, and by the Authority of the ame, That in and throughout all his Majety's Dominions and Countries in Europe, Aia, Africa, and America belonging or ubject to the Crown of Great Britain, the aid Supputation, according to which the Year of our Lord beginneth on the twenty-fifth Day of March, hall not be made ue of from and after the lat Day of December one thouand even hundred and fifty-one; and that the firt Day of January next following the aid lat Day of December hall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the firt Day of Year of our Lord one thouand even hundred and fifty-two; and the firt Day of January, which hall happen next after the aid firt Day of January one thouand even hundred and fifty-two, hall

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