Hand-list of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws, Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., and Constitutional Conventions of the United States and Its Possessions and of the Several States to May, 1912

Acts of Parliament - Continued.

5 Geo. II [1731-32]. An act for the more easy recovery of debts in his Majesty's plantations and colonies in America.

p. 233.

13 Geo. II [1739-40]. An act for the increase of mariners and seamen to navigate merchant ships and other trading ships or vessels. p. 235.

23 Geo. II [1749-50].

Act to encourage the importation of pig and bar iron from his Majesty's colonies in America, and to prevent the erection of any mill, or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plating forge to work with a tilt hammer or any furnace for making steel in any of the said colonies. p. 236.

p. 242.

24 Geo. II [1750-51]. An act for regulating the commencement
of the year, and for correcting the calendar now in use.
Act amended 25 Geo. II [1751-52]. p. 248.
[Became effective Sept. 29, 1751.] An act to regulate and restrain
paper bills of credit in . . . colonies or plantations of Rhode
Island and Providence plantations, Connecticut, the Massa-
chusetts-Bay, and New Hampshire in America; and to prevent
the same being legal tenders in payments of money. p. 251.
25 Geo. II [1751]. Act for avoiding and putting an end to certain
doubts [etc.] relating to attestation of wills and codicils, con-
cerning real estates in . . . England, and in . . . America.
p. 255.

(1713). An act for preserving all such ships and goods thereof,
which shall happen to be forced on shore, or stranded upon
the coasts of this kingdom, or any other of her Majesty's do-
minions. p. 269.

Temporary Acts and Laws [From 10th Geo. II to 8th Geo. III. Reprinted 1887] of his Majesty's province of New Hampshire in New England. By order of the governor, council and assembly passed Oct. 16, 1759. [These reprints of temporary laws are appended to "Acts and Laws" noted above as "Fowle's 1st edition," and are paged from 1 to 44 inclusive, the whole volume being paged as follows]:

xiii+238 +44 p. 4to.

t. p. imprint, Portsmouth, 1761.

Facsimile reprint by Statute Law Book Co., of the temporary
laws noted in "Fowle's 1st edition" [supra].
49 p. Folio.

Washington, 1898.

Temporary Acts and Laws-Continued.

State

[From 10th Geo. II to April 12, 1771. These temporary laws are appended to "Acts and Laws," noted above as "Fowle's 2d edition," and are paged from 1 to 51 inclusive, the whole volume being paged as follows]:

t. p. imprint, Portsmouth, 1771. 6+8+ iv + 272 + 51 + xiii p. Folio.

The catalogue of the library of Harvard Law School contains a note to this title as follows: "Perpetual Laws, p. 1-272; Temporary Laws, p. 1-52. With additional session laws: Perpetual, to May 1773 (p. 273-286); Temporary, to Feb. 1774 (p. 53-72)."

Acts and Laws (1776-80) of State of New Hampshire in America. By order of General Assembly. Prefixed is [commission of John Wentworth, governor]; resolution of American Congress, and resolve of provincial Congress [relating to the] government of New Hampshire. [Declaration of Independence, p. 31.] Covers Acts and Laws from 1776-80 inclusive.

Exeter, 1780.

vi +4 +4 + 182 p. 4to. (Small folio.) Commencement dates of sessions do not appear, date of passage of Acts only being given; such Acts are comprised in the following sessions, shown in New Hampshire State Library Report, October 1, 1891, pp. 141-146:

[Name changed from "Colony" to "State," Sept. 11, 1776.]

October 16, 1776.

November 27, 1776.

"Special Summons."

[For originals see unbound laws, post.]

April 19, 1780. Special Summons.

[See Cole's fac-similes, post.]

Order in Council, January 2, 1778 [Authorizing the receiver general to promise compound interest on notes to "the possessors that are willing to wait one other year for payment "]. p. 114.

Acts and Laws (1780-89). Fac-simile reprints by T. L. Cole, Washington, D. C., 1910.

(201)-452 (552) p. Folio.

n.t.p. 1780-89. Commencement dates of sessions do not appear, dates of passage of Acts only being given. Such Acts are comprised in the following sessions shown in New Hampshire State Library Report. Oct. 1, 1891, pp. 141-146:

Regular Session. "351" (441)-" 362" (452) p.
453-460 p.
(No laws.)
461-464 p.

Regular Session. 465-471 p.
473-476 p.

December 24, 1788 (through February, 1789). 477-552 p.

Mr. T. L. Cole speaks of 35 sessions bound in 24 volumes.

Acts and Laws (1780–89, Folio, unbound). The following Acts and Laws are unbound folio Acts of sessions the commencement dates of which are not therein given. The session dates below duplicate those in the preceding title, and are taken from the New Hampshire State Library Report, October 1891, pp. 141-146:

Session, February 9, 1780.

Acts March 4, 1780, to March 18, 1780 incl. 201-234 p.
19, 1780. "Special Summons."

Session, April

Session, August

Acts April 29, 1780. 234-235 p.