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 4-34 C. 30. Anno vlcefimo quinto Georgii II. A. D. 1752. Yearof the Reign of his prefent Majefty, or within which fuch Rates have not been ufiially aflefied, (hall be intitled to any Fee, Recompcnce or Benefit given to or provided for Coroners by this Act ; but ihat it fhall and may be lavi^ful for all fuch Coroners as are laft-mentioned, to have and receive all fuch Fees, Salaries, Wages and Allowances as they were intitled to by Law before the making of this AiSi, or as (hail be given or allowed to them by the Pcrfon or Perfons by whom they have been or fhall b; appcintcd. Coroner convift- VI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Coroner who is not appointed ed of Miide- j^y virtue of an annual Eleftion or Nomination, or whofe Office of Coroner is not annex^;d to any other Office""^!" be" O^ce, fhall from and after the faid tv/enty-fourth Day of June one thoufand fever, hundred and fifty-two, araoTCd." ^ loe lawfully convi6ied of Extortion, or wilful Negledt of his Duty, or Mifdemeanor in his Office, it (hall be lawful for the Court before whom he (hall be fo convicted, to adjudge that he fiiall be amoved from his Office ; and thereupon, if fuch Coroner fliall have been elected by the Freeholders^ of any County, a ^Vrit (hall iftue for the amoving him from his Office, and electing another Coroner in his ft'^ad, in fuch manner as Writs for the Amoval or Difcharge of Coroners, and for elc£ting Coroners in their fteal, are in any Cafes already directed by Law : And if the Coroner fo convifted fhall have been appointed by the Lord or Lords of any Liberty or Franchife, or in any other Manner than by the Ele£lion of thj Freeholders of any County, the Lord or Lords of fuch Liberty or Franchife, or the Perfon or Perfons intitled to the Nomina- tion or Appointment of any fuch Coroner, (hall, upon Notice. of fuch Judgment of Amoval, nominate and appoint another Perfon to be Coroner in his ftead. CAP. XXX. An A^ to amend an Aft made in the laft Sefllon of Parliament, (intituled. An AS for regu- lating the Commencement of the Tear, and for correSiing the Calendar now in Ufe.) a4Geo.2.c. 23. c 'ux rHEREAS by an Adl of Parliament made in the twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of his prefent ' VV R'lajefly, (intituled. An Act for regulating ibe Co?n?nence?nsnt of the Tear, and for corrcciiug the ' lowing the fecond Day of September, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred ' and fifty-two, (hall be reckoned and accounted to be the fourteenth Day of Scptinber, onitting for that ' Time only, the eleven intermediate nominal Days of the cominon Calendar, and that the Days inme- ' diately fucceeding fliall be called, reckoned and numbered forwards in numerical Order, from the faid ' fourteenth Day oi' September, and that all Meetings and AfTemblies of any Bodies Politick or Corporate, ' Execution of their refpeflive Offices, or for any other Purpofe which by Law^ Charter, Cuftom orL^fage, ' are to be holden on any fixed or certain Day of any Month, (liall from and after the faid fecond Day of ' Septejuber, be holden and kept upon or according to the fame refpeftive nominal Days and Times whereon ' the fame are then to be holden ; but which fliould be computed according to the New Method of num- ' bering and reckoning the Days of the Calendar as therein mentioned, as by the faid Act may more fully ' appear : And whereas by the Charters, Cuftoms or Ufage of fome Cities, Boroughs, Towns or other ' Communities, or Bodies Politick or Corporate, the Election of Officers, or the Eiitrance of Officers on ' on fome certain nominal Day or Days of the faid Month of S ptember, falling between the fecond and ' omitted for this prefent Year, fo that there will not in Fadl be any nominal Days between the faid fecond ' and fourteenth Days of the faid Month of September for this prefent Year, whereon fuch corporate Acts ' can be don; ; and Doubts have arifen whether fuch corporate Acts may be done at all without a fpecial ' Provifion for that Purpofe, by Authority of Parliament; and Liconvenijncies may poffibly enfue for ' want thereof;' Be it therefore enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majelty, by and with the Advice and Confcnt of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preient Parliament afTembled, TheEleftion of and by the Authority of the fame. That it fhall and may be lawful to and for all fuch Bodies Politick and OfTicers, s^c. to Corporate as aforefaid, and all and every the Officers and Members thereof, and they and every of them bcdone upon thegj-g hereby required to do all fuch Afts, as by any Law, Charter or Ufaaie are appointed or rcqu'ired to be lame natuvat t •' V i • i x-i /- ■ / - -' i ^ *■. - r. . ^ i ■ i i i r • i ■ i * r. DavsofthiiiYear"?"'^ °" '^"Y O' '^'"'s nominal Days of or m the laid Month of September, which by the laid recited Adt are onry, as before, directed to be dropt or omitted for this prefent Year, upon the fame natural Day or Days of this Year only, as fuch A(Ss would, might or ought to be done, in cafe the faid recited Aft had not been made ; and that ail Afts fo done in purfuance hereof fliall be deemed and are hereby declared and cnafted to be as good and efFeftual to all Litents and Purpofes, as if the fame were done on any of the nominal Days fo dropt or omitted as aforefaid; any Law, Statute, Charter, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary in any wife notwith- ftanding, ' IL And whereas in divers Parts of this Kingdom, by Cuftom, Prefcription or Ufage, or by virtue of ' fome Law or Contraft, certain Lands and Groinids are to be opened and ufed for Common of Pafture or ' other Purpofes, and the fame Lands and Grounds are again indofed and ihiit up, and certain Rents or other Payments are due and payable, and fome other Matters and Things may be to be done upon fome fame : And whereas the faid m/)veable Feafts are hereafter to take place, and to be obferved according to ' the new Calendar by the faid Aft diredtcd to be ufed, whereby fome Doubts have already ariicn,^ or may ' hereafter arife, about the Time for opening and ufmg, iuclofing and (liutting up fuch Lands and Grounds, o » tlte
 * Calendar now in Ufe) it is among other Things enabled. That the Natural Day next immediately fol-
 * either for the £le£tion of any Officers or Members thereof, or for any fuch Officers entering upon the
 * the Execution of their Offices, or the doing of fome other corporate Acts, maybe fixed or required to be
 * fourteenth Days of the fame Month, which faid nominal Days are by the faid Aft required to be dropt or
 * of the moveable Feafts, or upon certain Days or Times depending upon or to be computed from the