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No. 33.

An Act to settle General Councils and General Assemblies for
the Caribbee Islands in America, and to secure to each par-
ticular Islands their own peculiar Laws and legal Customs..

An Act for preventing tedious and chargeable Law Suits, and
for declaring the Rights of particular Tenants

An Act for the supplying the want of Fines and Recoveries in
these Islands, and for making any Deed or Deeds, duly
executed and acknowledged before any of Her Majesty's
Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in the Kingdom of
England or Ireland, or of any of these Islands, equivalent
to a Fine and Recovery, or Fines and Recoveries, duly and
regularly levied and suffered in any of Her Majesty's Courts
of Record at Westminster

An Act to secure the Payment of the Minister's Dues.

1798.

No. 36. An Act more effectually to provide for the Support, and to extend certain Regulations for the Protection of Slaves, to promote and encourage their Increase, and generally to meliorate their Condition ...

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PUBLIC ACTS

Repealed, Expired, or Obsolete.

1690.

An Act for appointing Commissioners, and an Agent, to nego-
tiate and manage the Affairs of the Leeward Islands, as also
for the settling a Fund for the defraying of the Expence and
Charge of such Negotiation, and procuring of divers Neces-
saries for the Use and Benefit of the said Islands.

An Act for supplying the Fleet with some Provisions and
settling of the Methods of procuring the same, and likewise
for the further rewarding and encouraging the Soldiers who

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1690.

served in the late Expedition in the Island of St. Christopher's,
against the French

1691.

No. 3. An Act for regulating the Militia and Forces of these Islands and establishing divers Rules and Articles of War....

No. 4. An Act for Explanation of Part of an Act made the eighth Day of November last, for the rewarding and encouraging Soldiers who served in the late Expedition in the Island of St. Christopher's, and for the further Encouragement of the said Soldiers, as also for taking away Benefit of Clergy from any Persons who steal Negroes or other Slaves

No. 5. An Act for the speedy getting in the Plunder and Debts due to the Army that served in the Expedition against St. Christopher's..

1692.

No. 6. An Act for settling General Councils and General Assemblies for the Leeward Islands.....

No. 7. An Act for continuing an Act made by the Governor in Chief, General Council, and General Assembly in Antigua, bearing Date the eighth Day of November, in the second Year of Their Majesties' Reign, one thousand six hundred and ninety, for the appointing Commissioners and Agent to manage the Affairs of the Leeward Islands, as also for settling a Fund for defraying the Expences and Charges of such Negotiation, and procuring divers Necessaries for the Use and Benefit of the said Islands..

No. 8. An Act impowering certain Persons to recover, for the use of the Leeward Islands, from Major Joseph Crisp, and others, concerned in the Produce of Ninety-three Barrels of Brandy, or so much thereof as was not employed for the Public Service, according to the Trust reposed in the said Major Crisp, in that behalf.

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An Act for continuing an Act, intituled, An Act for the speedy
getting in the Plunder and Debts due to the Army that served in
the Expedition against St. Christopher's

1694.

An Act prohibiting the Exportation of Provisions, Liquors,
Arms, and Ammunition, from any of these Islands to St.
Thomas's, or any Neuter Port

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An Act against Jews ingrossing Commodities imported in the
Leeward Islands, and trading with the Slaves belonging to the
Inhabitants of the same.

A supplemental and explanatory Act to an Act, appointing
Commissioners and an Agent to negotiate and manage the
Affairs of the Leeward Islands, &c...

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No. 15.

An Act to make the Country Bonds given in the Secretary's
Office in each Island, for the Use of the Creditors of such
Persons as shall be carried off without a Ticket..

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No. 16. An Act for securing Payment of the Balance of the General
Accounts from the Debtor Islands, to the Island of Antigua.

1701. .

No. 17. An Act to settle General Councils and General Assemblies for the Caribbee Leeward Islands in America, and to secure to each particular Island their own peculiar Laws, Liberties, and Privileges

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No. 18. An Act to prevent any Trade or Commerce with the French, or any other foreign Plantation, by the Inhabitants of His Majesty's Caribbee Leeward Islands in America..

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No. 19.

An Act for the better Observation of the Lord's Day, and Sup-
pressing of prophane Cursing and Swearing

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No. 21.

An Act for the better and more certain Support of Ministers..

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An Act for the securing the Payment of twelve hundred Pounds
for the Ends therein set down ..

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1701.

No. 22. An Act to prevent Papists and reputed Papists from settling in any of these His Majesty's Caribbee Leeward Islands in

America

No. 23. An Act for the better securing and defending His Majesty's Caribbee Leeward Islands in America, in Case of a War, and to establish a Fund for the same

No. 24.

An Act for the finding Supernumerary Arms, to be proportion-
able according to the Number of every Person's Negroes,
within these His Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in Ame-

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No. 25.

An Act to repeal a certain Act against the Jews.

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No. 26.

An Act for the preventing the Abuses in all Manner of Lumber,
and for the better encouraging of that Trade...

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1705.

No. 29. An Act declaring a certain Act made at Nevis, the fifth Day of
September, one thousand six hundred eighty-seven, intituled,
An Act against ingrossing Provisions, shall be in Force in ali
the Leeward Caribbee Islands in America

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No. 34.

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An Act for declaring an Act made at Antigua, intituled, An Act
for holding a Court of Chancery in this Island by the Lieutenant
Governor or President in Council, in the Absence of the Commander
in Chief, and for the more speedy Dispatch of Causes in the said
Court, to be in Force in all the Leeward Caribbee Islands in
America

An Act for obliging Joseph Crisp of the Island of St. Christopher's,
Esq; to account for and satisfy the Islands of Nevis,
Antigua, and Montserrat, for sundry Goods of the said Islands
intrusted with him some Years past

No. 35. An Act for establishing Courts, and settling due Methods for
the Administration of Justice throughout all Her Majesty's
Leeward Caribbee Islands in America..

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