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 A. D. 1752. Anno vicefimo quinto Georgii II. C. 31, 32. 435 ' the paying of fuch Rents or other Payments, and the doing fuch other A^atters orThings as aforefaid :' For Remedy thereof be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That from and after the faid fecond Day The Times for o( Septejnber in the faid Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and fifty-tv/o, the ref|ie(9:ivc Times "P-"'"? ^"'^ '"- for opening;, ufing, inclofing and Shutting up ail fuch Lands and Grounds as aforefaid, for ilie paying ofj^'"^""'""'"""''' %, 'f. ^ D . ] r 1 1 ■ " r r 1 i ^ n -r-i • ,- ,- • i • r i i for Common, and fuch Rents or other raymcnts, and tor the doing of luch other Matters or ! hings as atorv-'laid, ir l^^h /„r Payment of Times are depending on any moveable Feail or Feafts, fhall be computed and take place according to the Rents, &c. if faid new Calendar, and the Tables and Rules in the faid recited Ail dijefled to be ufed, and not accordingthe fame depend and Paynients {hall become and be due and payable, and all fuch Matters and Things fliall be tranfacled and done accordingly ; any Law, Cuftom, Prefcription orUiage to the contrary notwithftanding. in. Provided always, and it is hereby further declared and enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That The Title to nothing in this A£l contained fliall extend, or be conflrued to extend to the abridging, enlarging, confirm- i'|"-'h Lands not ing or altering, the Title of any Perfon, Body Politick or Corporate whatfoevcr, of, in or to any fuch ^^'^'^'•'' Lands or Grounds, but the fame fliall remain and continue the fame in all Refpefts, (except as to the new- Computation of Time when fuch refpe£tive Right or the Enjoyment thereof iliall commence, or be put inUfe.) ' IV. And whereas within the City of London the ufual and accuftomedTime of the annual Meeting and ' Affembly of the Citizens of the faid City, for the Ad.miffion and Swearing of the Mayor of the fame ' City in the Guildhall there, hath been on the Feaft Day of Saint Simon and Jndc, being the twenty-eighth ' Day of Oolober in every Year; and the ufual and accuftomed Solemnity of prefenting and fwearing the ' Mayor of the fame City in the Court of Exchequer at IFc/JminJlcr, hath been on the Day next follow- ' ing the faid Feafl: of Saint Simon z.ndyude, to wit, on the twenty-ninth Day q^ OSloker in every Year: ' And whereas by the faid in Part recited ASt it was ena£l:ed. That all Meetings and Affemblies of any ' Bodies Politick or Corporate, either for the Eleftion of any Officers or Members thereof, or for any fuch ' Officers entering upon the Execution of their refpe£live Offices, or for any other Purpofe whatfoevcr, ' which by any Law, Statute, Charter, Cuftom orUfage within this Kingdom, were to be holden and kept ' on any fixed or certain Day of any Month, fhould, from and after the fecond Day of September one ' thoufand feven hundred and fifty-two now next enfuing, be holden and kept upon or according to the ' fame refpedlive nominal Days and Times whereon or according to which the fame were, at the Time of ' making the faid A61, to be holden : And whereas by another Adl of Parliament made in the fame twenty- -4 Geo. i. c.48, ' fourth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled. An Ail for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas ' Term, it was enaifVed, That the faid So'cmnity of prefenting and fwearing the Mayors of the faid City ' oi London, before the King or Queen of England, in their Court of Exchequer at IVeJhninJler, or before ' the Barcns of the faid Court, after eveiy annual Eleftion into the faid Office, in the Manner and Form ' heretofore ufed, on the twenty-ninth Day ol October, fhould, from and after th? Feafl: of Saint Michael ' in the Year of our Lord one thoufand i'even hundred and fifty-two, be kept and obferve.l on the ninth ' Day of November in every Year ;' Be it therefore enadled by the Authority aforefaid, That the '^.id, ^^^^^l,^^ annual Admiffion and Swearing of the Mayor of the faid City oi London, at the Guildhall there, fliall not^ijj-ju„ ^.^"j at any Time hereafter be had and performed on the faid twenty-eighth Day of OSlober ; but the fame, and Swearing of the all annual Meetings and Afiemblies for that Purpofe, fhall at all Times hereafter be had, done and holden Mayor of Len- in the ufual and accuftomed Manner on the eighth Day oi November in every Year, being the Day next^°" f" '"= °" preceding the fiid ninth Day of November, whereon the faid Solemnity of prefenting and fwearing the Mayor of the faid City in the Court oi Exchequer is appointed for the future to be kept and obferved as aforefaid, and not before; any Thing in the faid firfl: recited Aft of Parliament, or any I^aw, Cuftom or Ufage to the contrary thereof in any wife liotwithitanding. CAP. XXXI. An Aft to continue, explain and amend feveral Laws more efFe£tually to prevent the Spreading of the ^9 ^'^''- 2- <^- 5- Diftemper which now rages amongfl: the Horned Cattle in this Kingdom. ^FanhirVoJimted and amended by a6 Geo, z. c. 34. 27 Geo. z, c. 14. 3c Geo, 2. c, 20, CAP. XXXII. An A€t to allow the Importation of Gum Senega into this Kingdom, from any Part of Ettrcpe, upon the Payment of a Duty ; and for Relief oi James Guthrie, with Refpeft to the Duties paid and fecured upon a Quantity of Tobacco burnt at the Port of Kircudbright ; and for giving further Time for Payment of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures or Con- trafts of Clerks and Apprentices. • XT7HEREAS the Printing of Silks, Linens and Callicoes, is greatly improved in this Kingdom; Co^.v/kW D™o-s ' VV and the Value of the faid Manufactures is thereby confiderably inhanced, and the Exportation -y "^ ^9 ^• ' thereof increafed : And whereas the Printing of the faid ^Manufactures cannot be carried to Perfection^- ■^4^ ' ''^m ' without a fufficicnt Quantity of Gum Senega ; the Importation of which hath of late greatly decreafed,^' j;' 1 jj/i-J^', ' and the Price thereof advanced to an exceffive Rate, whereby it is become neceflary that fome Provifion i.e. 43. 8G«.i. ' fliauld be made for the more effectual and conftant Supply of that ufeful and valuable Commodity, in c- is- §• '°- 37 Kkk2 ' order C".-' 'V-