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A.D. 1692] and Council may have their proper redress in the ordinary Courts of Justice provided and settled in the several shires within the said Principality and Dominion for remedy whereof

2. Be it enacted by the King and Queen's most excellent Majesties, and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same, that the before recited clause in the said Statute made in the 34 & 35 year of 8th shall be and is hereby repealed and that the said Court commonly called the Court before the President and Council in the Marches of  and all jurisdiction power and authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any of the Judges officers or ministers thereof to be clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined.

3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the Justices of the Great Sessions in respectively for the time being shall yearly nominate three substantial persons for each shire in their respective circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and shall certify their names to the Lords of the Most Honorable Privy Council crastino animarum to the intent the King's and Queen's Majesties and the survivors of them and their successors being thereof advertised may appoint one of the persons so certified in every of the said shires to be Sheriff for that year.

4. And be it further enacted that all arrears in pleas personal within the said Principality or Dominion of Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error in the same manner as errors in Pleas real and mixed are appointed to be redressed by the said Statute made in the 34 & 35 year of 8th.

5. Provided always that no Judgments nor Decrees passed in the said Court before the first day of June 1689 shall be by this Act repealed or annulled but all and every of them shall remain in the same force, and all executions upon them in the same state in which they were before the making of this Act, anything in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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15. And whereas a certain Act made at the Session of Parliament held in the 16th and 17th years of the Reign of the late