Boat-maſter anſwerable for Damages done by his Boat or Crew. Juſtice to inquire into, and order the Recompence. Penalty of obſtructing the Paſſage of other Veſſels, or of the opening or ſhutting the Locks, &c. Penalty on Waterman carrying a Gun or Net to fowl or fiſh with. Application of the Forfeiture, &c. Perſons aggrieved by the Order of any Juſtice, may appeal to the Seſſions. Order of the Juſtices not removeable by Certiorari. No Order of the Commiſſioners to be quaſhied for want of Form. Commiſſioners may borrow Money on the Tolls."
CAP. XX. An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Preſton to Lancaſter, and from thence to a Place called Heiring Syke, that divides the Counties oi Lancaſter and Weſtmorland. P R. [Certain Tolls granted for 21 Years.]
CAP. XXI. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by an Aft paffed in the third Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, For repairing and amending the feveral Roads leading /'ro?n'W oodRock through Kid^ din^ton i7?z<^ Enflone ?o Rollright Lane, <?«.-/ yroOT Enflow Bridge to Kiddington aforefaid, in the County of Oxford ; and for making the faid Adi more effedlual. P R. [The Aft 3 Geo. 2. c. 21. continued for 21 Years, i^c]
CAP. XXII. An Act for explaining and amending fo much of an Aft paffed in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty for the repairing and enlarging the Roads from the Town of Selby in the Wefi: Riding of the County of Tork, to the Town of Leeds; and from thence, in two feveral Branches, one through Bradford itnA Horton, and the other through B'vzvling and IVibfey, to the Town of Halifax in the fame Riding, as relates to that Part of the faid Roads which lies between Selby and Leeds ; and alfo for re- pairing the Road from Tadcajicr in the faid Weft Riding, over Bramham Moor through Kidhall Lane, over IVin ALoor, and through Scqcroft to a Place called Halton Dyal, where it comes into the abovefaid Road, between Selby and Leeds. PR. [The Aft 14 Geo. 2. c. 32. continued for 21 Years, and amended.]
CAP. XXIII.
An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Uſe.
Amended by 25 Geo, 2, c. 30.'WHEREAS the legal Supputation of the Year of our Lord in that Part of Great Britain called England, according to which the Year beginneth on the 25th Day of March, hath been found by Experience to be attended with divers Inconveniencies, not only as it differs from the Uſage of neighbouring Nations, but alſo from the legal Method of Computation in that Part of Great Britain called Scotlond, and from the common Uſage throughout the whole Kingdom, and thereby frequent Miſtakes are occaſioned in the Dates of Deeds, and other Writings, and Diſputes ariſe therefrom: And whereas the Calendar now in Uſe throughout all his Majesty's Britiſh Dominions, commonly called The Julian Calendar, hath been diſcovered to be erroneous, by means whereof the Vernal or Spring Equinox, which at the Time of the General Council of Nice in the Year of our Lord three hundred and twenty-five, happened on or about the twenty-firſt Day of March, now happens on the ninth or tenth Day of the ſame Month; and the ſaid Error is still increaſing, and if not remedied, would, in Proceſs of Time, occaſion the ſeveral Equinoxes and Solſtices to fall at very different Times in the Civil Year from what they formerly did, which might tend to miſlead Perſons ignorant of the ſaid Alteration: And whereas a Method of correcting the Calendar in ſuch manner, as that the Equinoxes and Solſtices may for the future fall nearly on the ſame nominal Days, on which the ſame happened at the Time of the ſaid General Council, hath been received and eſtabliſhed, and is now generally practiſed by almoſt all other Nations of Europe: And whereas it will be of general Convenience to Merchants, and other Perſons correſponding with other Nations and Countries, and tend to prevent Miſtakes and Diſputes in or concerning the Dates of Letters, and Accounts, if the like Correction be received and eſtabliſhed in his Majeſty's Dominions:' May it therefore pleaſe your Majeſty, that it may be enacted, and be it en- acted by the King's moſt Excellent Majeſty, by and with the Advice and Conſent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this preſent Parliament aſſembled, and by the Authority of the ſame, The old Supputation of the Year not to be made uſe of after Dec. 1751. Year to commence, for the future, on 1 Jan. That in and throughout all his Majeſty's Dominions and Countries in Europe, Aſia, Africa, and America belonging or ſubject to the Crown of Great Britain, the ſaid Supputation, according to which the Year of our Lord beginneth on the twenty-fifth Day of March, ſhall not be made uſe of from and after the laſt Day of December one thouſand ſeven hundred and fifty-one; and that the firſt Day of January next following the ſaid laſt Day of December ſhall be reckoned, taken, deemed and accounted to be the firſt Day of Year of our Lord one thouſand ſeven hundred and fifty-two; and the firſt Day of January, which ſhall happen next after the ſaid firſt Day of January one thouſand ſeven hundred and fifty-two, ſhall
