13th GEO. I. No. 185. A. D. 1726. cessary to have the said additional Duty revived and continued, by Reason of the excessive Debts this Island is now burthened with, occasioned chiefly by many dry Years it has laboured under, and the great annual Expence that we are at to protect our Trade : III. We therefore, Your Majesty's most loyal, dutiful, and obedient Subjects, the Governor in Chief in and over all Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island of Antigua, humbly pray Your Most Sacred Majesty, that it may be enacted and ordained; and be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That an additional Duty of twenty Shillings in Cash per Pipe is hereby laid and imposed on all Madeira Wines, over and above the Duty of forty Shillings already laid by an Act of this Island, dated the seventeenth Day of December, one thousand six hundred ninety and seven; which Impost on all Madeira Wines, hereby imposed and laid, shall be paid, collected, and received, in the same Manner, by the same Person, and under the same Penalties and Allowances in all Respects, as the Duties laid upon Madeira Wines, by the said recited Act of the seventeenth of December, one thousand six hundred ninety and seven, are to be paid, collected, and received. Dated in the Town of St. John's the tenth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred twenty and six, and in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. ASHTON WARNER, Speaker. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Pas WILLIAM SMITH, Deputy Clerk to the Council. JOHN HART. ANTIGUA. Published in the Town of Saint John's, the first of April, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven. ARTHUR DABRON, Deputy Provost Marshal. 4th GEO. II. No. 186. A. D. 1730. See, with this. No. 186. An Act concerning the Payment, out of the Publick Treasury, for Slaves executed and to be executed in this Island for Treasons, Murders, or other Felonies. Acts of 9th Dec. 1725, Аст. lue of Slaves demned for WHEREAS by the constant and antient Usage of this Island, all Owners of Slaves which have been condemned and executed for Treasons, or Murders, or other Felonies, have been paid out of the Publick Treasury of this Island, by Order of the Commander in Chief, Lieutenant Governor, or President of the Council, and the Council and Assembly of this Island, upon Petition duly preferred, according to the Values of such Slaves, ascertained by Appraisement; by reason whereof Persons were encouraged to bring their offending Slaves to Justice, and Concealments of such Crimes have been prevented: II. But inasmuch as no positive Law is now extant for the Purposes before-mentioned, and Disputes may arise hereafter concerning the Premises for want of such positive Law: For Prevention therefore of such Disputes; III. We Your Majesty's most dutiful, loyal, and obedient Subjects, the Commander in Chief of all Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of Your Majesty's Island Antigua, do humbly pray Your Most Sacred Majesty, that it may be declared, enacted, and ordained; and be it, and it is hereby declared, enacted, and ordained, That according to the antient and uninterrupted Usages and Customs of this Island, all Persons who have, within four Years before the Date hereof, had any Slave or Slaves condemned and executed for Treason, Murder, or other Felony, within this Island, and duly appraised, or to be appraised as usual, and not already paid for by the Publick of this Island, are well intitled to be paid the Value or Values of such Slaves out of the Publick Treasury of this Island, according to Appraisement, upon a Petition and Order thereon, as heretofore used; so as such Value or Values, as in Cases of Runningaway amounting to Felony, be not more than the Values by Law . established. 4 Appraised Va. IV. And be it also further hereby enacted, by the Authority aforehereafter con- said, That the Value or Values of all Slaves, hereafter to be condemned for Treason, Murder, or other Felony, shall be paid out of der, or Felony, the Publick Treasury of this Island, to the Owner or Owners, by Treason, Mur to Appraisement 4th GEO. II. Nis. 186, 187. A. D. 1730. Owners: Sub No. 176, S. 13. Appraisement to be made as heretofore used; subject nevertheless to to be paid the Forfeitures of such Value or Values, in Case of not prosecuting ject to Forsuch Criminal Slaves, in such Manner, and to such other Persons, as by Law established; so always, as in Cases of Running-away, the Appraisement shall not exceed the Values by Law established, or to be established. feiture, under for not prosecuting Slaves; and subject to No. 183, S. S. fixing a Max Dated in the Town of Saint John's the thirty-first Day of August, in imum Value. the fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and in the Year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred and thirty. ASHTON WARNER, Speaker. Past the Assembly this twenty-】 fourth Day of August, one thousand seven hundred and thirty. WILLIAM SMITH, Clerk to the Assembly. Past the Council the thirty-first WILLIAM CRABB, The same Day it was laid before the Commander in Chief in Council, and assented to. WILLIAM CRABB, Clerk to the Secretary. WILLIAM MATHEW. An Act for appropriating certain Lands adjoining to No. 187. James Fort for the Use of the Gunners and Matrosses belonging to the said Fort, and for other Publick Uses. of Land to Co WHEREAS Colonel James Vaughan, late of the said Island, de- Preamble. ceased, did by a certain Deed or Instrument of Writing, under his Recites Grant Hand and Seal, bearing Date the twelfth Day of October, in the Year lonel of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and eighty, and duly Vaughan; recorded in the Register's Office of the said Island, grant unto His Majesty, And that had been built on said Land. Аст. 4th GEO. II. No. 187. A. D. 1730. Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, a certain Point or Promontory of Land, commonly called or known by the Name of Saint John's Point, containing twenty-five Acres, bounded northerly with the Land then of the said James Vaughan, southerly, easterly, and westerly, with the Sea and Saint John's Harbour: II. And whereas the said Land was intended for building a Fort, and for the Support of Matrosses and others living therein, although no such Uses are declared in the said Deed; and a Fort hath accordingly been built on Part of the said Land, and now called James Fort; and the said Land hath been found very convenient and necessary for the Uses aforesaid : III. We therefore Your Majesty's most loyal, dutiful, and obedient Subjects, the Commander in Chief of all Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island Antigua, humbly pray Your Majesty that it may be enacted and ordained, and be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Lands Said Landto be shall be, and are hereby declared to be, for the Use of the said Fort, for the Use of and for the Gunners and Matrosses belonging to the same, excepting such Part thereof as shall hereafter be thought necessary to be built on, for the Enlargement of the said Fort, or for Magazines or Hospitals, or other Publick Uses, to be appointed and declared by the Commander in Chief, Council, and Assembly of this Island for the Time being. said Fort, &c. except such Part as should be after appli ed by Autho rity to other Public Pur. poses. Dated at St. John's, the eighth Day of December, one thousand seven hundred and thirty. ASHTON WARNER, Speaker. Past the Council the eighth Day GEORGE FORD, Deputy Clerk to the Council. Past the Assembly the eighth Day of December, one thousand seven hundred and thirty. WILLIAM SMITH, Clerk to the Assembly. After which it was laid before the Commander in Chief, who was pleased to assent thereto. WILLIAM MATHEW. Published at the Town of Saint John's in Antigua, the twentieth Day of January, one thousand seven hundred and thirty. EDWARD JESUP, Marshal. 5th GEO. II. No. 188. A. D. 1732. See Acts of 10th (No. 150,) 1801, No. An Act to repeal so much of an Act, passed in this Island, No. 188. dated the tenth Day of March, one thousand seven March, 1715, hundred and fifteen, intituled, An Act for consti- and 15th Sept. tuting a Court of Chancery in this Island, and of 557.) any other Law or Act now in Force in this Island of Antigua, as restrains the Power of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, from appointing a Person to preside in the said Court of Chancery. By Act, No. Chief's Presence necessa WHEREAS by the said recited Act, it is, among other Things, PREAMBLE. enacted, that from and after the Date of the said Act, all and every 150, Comthe Court or Courts of Chancery, which shall be holden for the said mander in Island, should consist of, and be holden by, the Captain General or Governor in Chief of the said Leeward Islands for the Time being, ry to hold and five or more of the Council of this Island of Antigua; provided Chancery; that where any Counsellor or Counsellors should be Party or Parties which is proin any Cause in the said Court of Chancery, then the said Court of lay. Chancery might be held by such Commander in Chief and three of such Counsellors, or to that Effect: II. And whereas it has been found the Cause of great Delay that the Commander in Chief's Presence is made necessary for holding the said Court of Chancery; Court of ductive of De ACT. So much of III. We therefore Your Majesty's most dutiful, loyal, and obedient Subjects, the Governor in Chief of all Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of Your Majesty's Island of Antigua, humbly pray Your Most Sacred Majesty that it may be enacted and ordained; and be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That so much of the above recited Act, and of any other Act or Law of the said Island No. 150 as reof Antigua now in Force, as restrains the Power of the King, His strains the Heirs and Successors, from appointing who shall preside in the pointing aPerCourt of Chancery, held for the said Island of Antigua, shall be son to preside repealed and made void; and the same is hereby repealed and made repealed. void accordingly. King from ap in Chancery, other respects IV. Provided always, That the said recited Act shall, in all other No. 150 in Respects, continue in full Force; any Thing herein contained not-confirmed. withstanding. VOL. I. L.I Dated |