Certain Modifications. Such Acts, printed as directed, to be Evidence. 2d GEO. III. III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the printed Collection of Acts by this Act directed to be printed by Your Majesty's Printer for the Time being, shall, when printed by such Printer, be admitted as Evidence in all Courts of Judicature in this Island and elsewhere. Dated at St. John's, the fourth Day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two, and in the second Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Passed by the Governor in Chief the fourth Day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two. GEORGE (L.S.) THOMAS. ANTIGUA. Published this fifth Day of May, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-two. SAMUEL H. WARNER, Dep. Pro. Marshal. An 2d GEO. III. Nis. 256-258. A. D. 1762. EXPIRED. An Act for paying an additional Subsistence to all of, and No. 256. under the Rank of Lieutenants in His Majesty's thirtyeighth Regiment, that went upon the Expedition against Martinique, during the Time they were absent, from this Island, upon the said Expedition. Dated 23d September, 1762. An Act for the further Continuance of An Act for establishing Courts of Common Pleas, Error, King's Bench and Grand Sessions; and for compelling the specific Performance of Money Contracts, and an equitable Performance of other Contracts; and for the better regulating and settling due Methods for the Administration of Justice; and for limiting a Time for executing Executions out of the Court of Chancery, and other Courts in this Island; and, more effectual Support of Credit. Dated 28th January, 1763. No. 257. EXPIRED. See Act of 21st Jan. 1791, (No. 475.) EXPIRED. An Act for the further continuance of An Act supple- No. 258. mentary to an Act, intituled, an Act for regulating the Towns and Harbours, settling Markets, and encouraging Wharfs in this Island, and to prevent Abuses in the Fishery about the same. Dated 28th January, 1763. An 3d GEO. III. EXPIRED. No. 259. An Act for paying an additional Subsistence to all of, and under the Rank of Lieutenants in His Majesty's thirtyeighth Regiment, now posted in this Island, and appropriating a Fund for the same; and for the Encourage ment and Support of disabled Soldiers. EXPIRED. Dated 28th January, 1763. No. 260. An Act for the further Continuance of an Act, intituled, An Act for appointing Henry Wilmot, Esquire, Agent for this Island; and ascertaining a Salary No. 261. for that Service. Dated 28th January, 1763. An Act for the further continuance of an Act for the Dated 28th January, 1763. No. 262. An Act raising a Tax for paying Public Debts and Charges, and particularly applying the said Tax. EXPIRED. Dated 14th May, 1763. No. 263. An Act supplementary to an Act, intituled, An Act for re EXPIRED. gulating the Militia of this Island. Dated 14th May, 1763. An 3d GEO. III. Nis. 264-267. A. D. 1763. An Act for the Ease and Relief of several Insolvent No. 264, Debtors. Dated 23d September, 1763. OBSOLETE. EXPIRED. Feb. 1799, (No. 552.) An Act for ascertaining the Freights of Goods and Mer- No. 265. chandizes, and of Sugar, Rum, and other Produce of See Act of 21st this Island, which shall be carried and transported from one Part of the said Island to another Part of the said Island, or to and from any of the Islands thereto adjacent and belonging, in any Sloops, Shallops, Boats, or Vessels commonly called Sugar Droughers. Dated 21st October, 1763. OBSOLETE. An Act for the Ease and Relief of several Insolvent No. 266. Debtors now in the Jail of Saint John. Dated 25th November, 1763. EXPIRED. An Act for paying an additional Subsistence to all of, and No. 267. under the Rank of Lieutenants in His Majesty's thirtyeighth Regiment, now posted in this Island, and appropriating a Fund for the same; and for the Encouragement and Support of disabled Soldiers. Dated 10th February, 1764. VOL. I. 3 B An 4th GEO. III. No. 268. A. D. 1764. No. 268. An Act to amend an Act, intituled, An Act to prevent Abuses in the Fishery about this Island. The Meshes net, as fixed of Fishing S. 2. found to be too large. PREAMBLE. WHEREAS by an Act of this Island bearing Date the eighteenth Day of November, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six, it is, among other Things, enacted, that, from and after the Expiration of two Calendar Months next after the Publication of the said Act, no Net or Sein, except Hand-seins for Shrimps, shall be hauled in the Sea about this Island, of less Meshes or of greater Length than therein after-mentioned, that is to say, every Mesh in the Bunt of each Net or Sein shall not be less than two Inches and a half, and the Bunt not to exceed thirty Fathoms hung in Length; and that the second Meshes of each Net or Sein shall not be less than three Inches, and not exceed thirty Fathoms hung in Length; and that the Meshes in the Arms of each Net or Sein shall not be less than three Inches and an half, and the Arms thereof not to exceed sixty Fathoms in Length; the whole Net or Sein, when hung, not to exceed one hundred and twenty Fathoms in Length, each Mesh to be measured from Knot to Knot when extended in a direct Line, under such Pains and Penalties as are in the said Act directed, as may by the said Act more fully and at large appear: Аст. II. And whereas, since the passing the said Act, it has been found by Experience, that at least one Fourth-part of the Fish about this Island, though grown to their full Size, will escape through the Meshes prescribed by such Act; so that the Subsistence thereby intended to be provided for the Poor of this Island in particular, and the Inhabitants in general, by Supplies of fresh Fish, is in a great Measure defeated, and many Persons who have usually got a comfortable Livelihood by Fishing, have, by the Discouragements they have met with, been obliged to desist from carrying on the Fishery about this Island: III. Therefore, to remedy the Inconveniencies arising from the Largeness of the said Meshes, we, Your Majesty's most dutiful, loyal, and obedient Subjects, the Governor of Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island Antigua, humbly pray Your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted and ordained; and be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That, from and after the Publication of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to |