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 A. D. 1757* Anno triceiimo Georgii 11. ^- 37* ^49 LIT And it is hereby further enacted,' That if any Action, Suit or Information fliall be com- Limitation of menced or profecuted againft any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done or to be done in Pur- '^^'°"*' fuance of this Act, every fuch Action or Suit fhall be commenced within fix Calendar Months next after the Fact be committed, and not afterwards ; and (liall be hiid or brought in the Court of Pleas of the faid JJle of Ely ^ or in the County of Cambridge^ and not elfewhere : And the De- General Iflue. fendant or Defendants in fuch Action or Suit fhall and may plead the General IfTue ; and, if in Replevin, may juftify and avow by Virtue of this Act, as Perfons acting by Authority of Coir,- miffioners of Sewers are enabled to do ; and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence, with- out fpecially pleading the fame, otherwife than as aforcfaid, at any Trial to be had thereupon ; and that the Fact alledged to have been done, was done in Purfuance and by Authority of this Act : And if the fame fhall appear to have been fo done, or if any fuch Action or Suit fliall be brought after the Time before limited for bringing the fame, or fhall be brought in any other County or Place than as aforefaid, then the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants, Avowant or Avow- ants ; or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs lliall become nonfuit, or forbear Profecution, or difcontinue his, her or their Suit or Suits, or if any Verdict fhall pafs againft him, her or them, upon a Demurrer, or otherwif^, then in any the faid Cafes, the Defendant or Defendants, Avowant or Avowants fhall re- cover treble Cofts, for which he, fhe or they fhall have like Remedy, as where Cofts by Law are Treble Coftj. LIII. And be it further enacted and declared, That this Act fhall be deemed a publick Act ; and all Publkk. Aft, Judges, Juflices and other Perfons, are hereby required to take Notice thereof as fuch, without fpecially pleading the fame. CAP. XXXVII. An A61 for enlarging the Times limited for executing and performing feveral Provifions, Powers and Diredions in certain A6ts of this SelTion of Parliament. ' Purpofes thereby intended may be defeated >' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excel- lent Majefly, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- mons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, TJiat in cafe any Where any Pro^ Act of Parliament hath paffed, or doth or fhall pafs, at any Time whatfoever during this pre- vifion?, Powers, fent Seflion of Parliament, whereby any Provifion, Power or Authority, or any Matter or Thing fo'^teTj^ct'tef b*^- hath been, is or fhall be directed, required or authorifed to be executed, done or performed, on any^Act^f this^ or before any Day which hath been, is or fhall be the Day of the paffing, or which hath, is Seffion, before or fliall have elapfed, before the pafTmg of any fuch Act refpectively ; in each and every fuch theDay. &c. oa Cafe, all fuch Provifions, Powers, Authorities, Matters and Things, as have been, are or fj^iall ^^^'^ "^""^^ ^'^ be directed or required to be executed, done or performed, on or before the Days refpectively u ^^^n-^A !t^ ..... /-lA n 11 1 1 11' 11 '1 1 •^11 ■ have paiied, the limited m every fuch Act, fhall be and are hereby directed and required to be executed, done and fame may be performed, on or before the fourteenth Day after the Day of paffing this Act, by the Perfons executed on or refpectively, who in every fuch Act refpectively have been, are or fhall be directed or required before the 14th- to execute, do or perform the fame, on or before the Days therein limited ; and all fuch Provi- ^^^ h-^'^aa' fions, Powers, Authorities, Matters and Things, as have been, are or fhall be authorifed to be ^'^^ ' '^ ' executed, done or performed, on or before the refpective Days limited in every fuch Act re- fpectively, may be and are hereby authorifed to be executed, done and performed, on or before the faid fourteenth Day after the Day of paffing of this Act, by the Perfons refpectively who have been, are or fhall be authorifed to execute, door perform the fame; and all fuch Provifions, I-owers, and tfeMattera- Authorities, Matters and Things fo executed, done and performed, on or before the faid four- ^° ^°"^ ^^'^^^'^'^ teenth Day after the Day of paffing this Act, fhall be as valid and effectual, and be deemed and *° ^^ ^*'^*^* taken, to all Intents and Purpofes, as if the fame had been executed, done and performed, on or be- fore the Days limited in every fuch Act refpectively 3 any Thing therein contained to the contrary notwithftanding. CAP.
 * XT^^^^^^'^ ^y certain Acts of this prefent Seflion of Parliament, feveral Provifions, Powers
 * yV ^nd Authorities therein contained, have been or may be required, directed or authorifed
 * to be executed on or before the Day of the pafTing of fuch Acts refpectively, whereby (everal
 * Doubts and Difficulties may arife with refpect to the Execution of the faid Acts, and the good