Chattels within your Precincts, you cause to be levied, and (the fame being difpofed of as the Law dires) paid and satisfied unto the faid C. D. the aforefaid Sums, being Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, in the Whole; and alfo that out of the faid Monies, Goods or Chattels you levy One Shilling more for this Writ, together with your own Fees. And for want of fuch Money, Goods or Chattels of the faid A. B. to be by him fhewn unto you, or found within your Precincts, for fatisfying the aforefaid Sums you are hereby commanded to take the Body of the faid A. B. and him commit unto the keeper of the Gaol in Hin the County aforefaid, within the faid Prifon; who is likewife hereby commanded to receive the faid A. B. and him fafely keep, until he pay unto the faid C. D. the full Sums above-mentioned, and, be by him released, and alfo fatisfy your Fees. Hereof fail not, and make due Return of this Writ, with your Doings therein, unto me the faid J, H. Efq; within fixty Days next coming. Dated at H. this Day of, &c. J. H THESE are therefore, by Authority of the State of Connecticut, to com- next. Dated at H. &c. upon the Summons or Sub-poena for Witneffes.' To A. B. and C. D. &c. BY Authority of the State of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded to Court to be holden at F. on the Execution from fuperi. or or county court. Summons for witneff appear before the Tuesday of to teftify what you know in a certain Action now depending es. in the faid Court, between E. F. of H. Plaintiff, and G. H. of M. Defenddant; in an Action of Hereof fail not, under the Penalty of the Law in that Cafe provided. Dated at H. &c. D. E. Clerk. A Warrant of Replevin before the County Court. To the Sheriff of F. &c. Greeting. uthority of the State of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded, jaftly, and without delay, to caufe to be replevied to T. C. of S. his Replevis now deftrained or impounded by S. H. of N. and and you are to fummon the Beafts, viz. faid faid S. H. to appear before the next County Court to be holden at F. in Day of &c. The like for a Writ of Replevin before an Affiftant or Juftice, Mutatis Bond for Profecution. You C, S. and E. C. of H. acknowledge yourselves jointly and severally in a Recognizance of Pounds, That the Attachment or Replevin he hath now taken at the next County Court to be holden at next, to full Effect; and anfwer all Coft not his Plea good. Taken and acknowledBefore me, bound to J. L. of Bond for T. R. of W. fhall profecute profecution. but against the faid J. L. H. on the Tuesday of and Damages in Cafe he make ged in H. the Day of, &c. Warrant for collecting town rates. Provifo. BY J. W. Juftice of Peace. A Warrant for collecting Rates. To A. B. Collector of the Town Rate of the Town of, &c. Greeting. Y Authority of the State of Connecticut, you are hereby commanded forthwith to levy and collect of the Perfons named in the annexed Lift, herewith committed to you, each one his several Proportion, as therein set down, of the Sum total of fuch Lift; being a Tax or Affeffment granted and agreed upon by the Inhabitants of the faid Town of, &c. regularly affembled on the Day of for defraying of the neceffary Charges arifing within the fame; and to deliver and pay the Sum and Sums which you shall fo levy and collect, unto the Treasurer of the faid Town, (ur to C. D. being by faid Town appointed to receive the fame) at or before the Day of And if any Person or Perfons fhall neglect or refuse to make Payment of the Sum or Sums whereat he or they are refpectively af feffed, and fet in the faid Lift, to distrain the Goods or Chattles of such Perfon or Perfons, and the fame dispose of as the Law directs; returning the Overplus (if any be) unto the Owner or Owners. And for Want of Goods and Chattels, whereon to make Distress, you are to take the Body or Bodies of the Perfon or Perfons fo refufing, and him or them commit unto the Keeper of the Gaol of the faid County, within the faid Prifon; who is hereby commanded to receive and safely keep him or them, until he or they pay and fatisfy the faid Sum or Sums affeffed upon him or them as aforefaid, together with your Fees; unless the said Affeffment, or any Part thereof, upon Application made to the County Court, fhall be abated. Dated at G. &c. Always provided, and it is further enabled, That it shall be lawful for any Perfon or Perfons within this State, as often as Occafion fhall require, to make ufe of other and diverfe Forms than what are before in this Act pre-.. fcribed, fo that the Subftance of the Matter or Action be well contained therein, according to Law. Fornication. Frauds & Perjuries. Fraudulent Conveyances. 87 An Act for the Punishment of Fornication. BE it enacted by the Governor. Council, and Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That if any Man fhall com mit Fornication with any fingle Woman, upon due Conviction thereof, each of them fhall pay a Fine of thirty-three Shillings to the Treafury of the County in which fuch Conviction is; or be corporally punished by whipping, not exceeding ten Stripes each; at the Diferetion of the County Court who fhall have Cognizance of faid Offence. Fine, 268. No fuit in law or equity to be brought upon any contract that fhall be made after the first day of Dec. An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries. BE it enacted by the Governor, Council and Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Autobrity of the fame, That no Suit in Law or Equity fhall be brought or maintained upon any Contract or Agreement that fhall be made after the first Day of December, one Thoufand feven Hundred and Seventy-one, whereby to charge any Executor or Administrator, upon any fpecial Promife, to anfwer Damages out of his own Eftate; or whereby to charge the Defendant upon any fpecial Promife to answer for the Debt, Default, or Mifcarriages of another Perfon; or to charge any Perfon upon any Agreement made upon Confideration of Mar-1771, to riage; or upon any Contract, or Sale of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Intereft in or concerning them; or upon any Agreement that is not to be performed within the Space of one Year from the making thereof; unless the Agreement upon which fuch Action fhall be brought, or fome Me. morandum or Note thereof fhall be made in Writing, and figned by the Party to be charged therewith, or fome other Perfon thereunto by him lawfully authorized. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Suit in Law or Equity fhall be brought or maintained upon any Contract or Agreement that thall hereafter be made, and not reduced to writing as aforefaid, but within three Years next after entering into, or making the fame, or on any fuch Contract or Agreement heretofore made, but within three Years next after a Right of Action thereon fhall accrue; or if fuch Right of Action hath already accrued, fuch Suit fhall not be brought, but within three Years next after the first Day of June, one Thousand seven Hundred and Seventy-one. Provided, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend to any Action of Book Debt. BE An Act against Fraudulent Conveyances. charge any executor, &c. upon any fpecial promife. No fuit &c. to be bro't upon any contract, unless within three years, &c. Provifo. Fraudulent conveyances, E it enacted by the Governor, Council and Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all fraudulent and deceitful Conveyances of Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods or Chattels; and all fuch Bonds, Suits, Judgments, Executions or Contracts, void. made to avoid any Debt or Duty of others, fhall as against the Party or Parties only, whofe Debt or Duty is fo endeavoured to be avoided, their Heirs, Executors or Affigns) be utterly void; any Pretence, or feigned Confideration notwithstanding. And every of the Parties to fuch a fraudulent Conveyance, Bond, Suit, Judgment, Execution or Contract, who being privy thereunto, that fhall Penaltywittingly jnftify the fame to be done, bona Fide and upon good Confideration: Or shall alien and affign any Lands, Leafe, Goods or Chattels fo to them conveyed, as aforefaid, fhall forfeit one Year's Value of the Lands, Leafe, Leafe, Rents, Common, or other Profit out of the fame; and the whole Value of the Goods and Chattels, and also fo much Money as fhall be contained in fuch covenous Bond or Contracts; and being thereof convicted fhall alfo fuffer half a Year's Imprisonment without Bail: Which above Forfeitures fhall be equally divided between the Party grieved, and the County Treasurer; except the Purchaser make it appear by two fufficient Witneffes, that the Contract or Bargain was made bona Fide, and on good Confideration, before any Seifure made by the Creditor or Officer of the Estate so conveyed; and that it was without any Design of Fraud to defeat the Creditor of his juft Dues. An Act relating to Freemen. Townclerks Bembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That the Town Clerks in E it enacted by the Governor, Council and Reprefentatives, in General Court to enroll the the feveral Towns in this State, fhall enroll in their respective Offices, the Names of all fuch Perfons in their refpective Towns, as are or fhall be admitted Freemen of this State: Which Enrolments fhall be made by the Direction of the Authority and Select-men of the Town, in the open Freemen's Meeting, legally affembled. That no Perfon hereafter be admitted, and made free of this State, but in the open Freemen's-Meeting of the Town whereto he belongs, regularly affembled. That all fuch Inhabitants in this State, as have accomplished the Age of Twenty-one Years, and have the Poffeffion of Freehold Eftate to the Value of Forty Shillings per Annum, or Forty Pounds perfonal Eftate in the general Lift of Eftates in that Year wherein they defire to be admitted Freemen; or are poffeffed of Eftate as aforefaid, and by Law excufed from putting it into the Lift; and alfo are Perfons of a quiet and peaceable Behaviour, and civil Conversation, may, if they defire it, on their procuring the Select-men of the Town wherein fuch Perfons inhabit, or the major Part of them, to certify that the faid Perfons are qualified as abovefaid, be admitted and made free of this State; in Cafe they take the Oath of Fidelity to the State, and the Oath provided by Law for Freemen; which Oaths any one Affiftant or Juftice of the Peace is hereby impowered to adminifter in faid Freeman's-Meeting. And all fuch Perfons admitted and fworn as aforefaid, fhall be Freemen of this State; and their Names fhall be enrolled in the Roll of Freemen in the Town-Clerk's Office of that Town wherein they are admitted, as aforefaid. And that when any Select-man fhall give Certificate concerning any Perfon or Perfons who are defirous to be made Freemen, and fhall certify that they are of peaceable and civil Conversation, and qualified according to this Act; if it fhall after appear that such Persons are not qualified, as is certified by the Select-men, every Select-man that shall certify as aforefaid, fhall pay a Fine of Three Pounds fix Shillings, to the State Treasurer. And that if any Freeman of this State fhall walk fcandaloufly, or commit any scandalous Offence, it shall be in the Power of the Superior Court in this State, on Complaint thereof to them made, to disfranchize fuch Freeman; who shall stand disfranchized, till by his good Behaviour the faid Superior Court shall fee Caufe to reftore him to his Franchisement or Freedom again: Which the faid Court is impowered to do. An Act against Gaming. BE it enacted by the Governor, Council and Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Autobrity of the fame, That if any Perfon or Perfons Perfons in this State, of what Rank or Quality foever, fhall play at Cards, 20s. Penalty Dice or Tables; every fuch Perfon fhall pay a Fine of Twenty Shillings, for playing for every fuch Offence he or they fhall be convicted of. cards, &c. And the Head of every Family where any fuch Game is ufed, with his or her Privity or Confent, fhall pay in like Manner the Sum of Twenty Shillings for each Time any fuch Game is ufed in his or her House. And whofoever fhall fell any Playing-Cards in this State, or have any for Sale in his Poffeffion, or offer to fell any; every such Perfon fhall pay a fine of Forty Shillings, for every Pack of Cards by him fold, offered to Sale, or found in his Poffeffion. And no Taverner, Inn keeper, Ale-house-keeper or Victualler, fhall have, or keep in or about their Houfes, or any of the Dependencies thereof, any Dice, Cards, Tables, Bowls, Shuffle-board, Billiards, Coytes, Keils, Loggets or any other Implement ufed in Gaming; nor fhall fuffer any Perfon or Perfons reforting unto any of their Houfes, to use or exercise any of the faid Games, or any other unlawful Game within their faid Houses, or any of the Dependencies as aforefaid, or Places to them belonging, on pain of forfeiting the Sum of Forty Shillings for every fuch Offence, upon the Conviction thereof. 208. Fine on families where gam ing is fuffer'd Penalty for felling cards. Taverners implements not to keep for gaming,, &c. on pen alty of 408. And every Person who shall be convicted of playing Cards, Dice or Tables in any such House, or the Dependencies thereof, fhall incur the farme Penalty A Fine of 109 as is before in this Act provided for playing at faid Games; and for playing for gaming. at any of the other Games aforefaid, in any fuch House or Dependencies, fhall pay a fine of Ten Shillings; one half of the Fines that fhall be recovered by virtue of this Act, fhall belong to any Perfon or Perfons who fhall discover and give Information of the Offence; and the other half to the Treafury of the Town where the Offence is committed. And it shall be the Duty of every Informing Officer, to enquire after, and present all Breaches of this A&t that fhall come to their Knowledge. An Act for regulating Gaols and Gaolers. BE it enacted by the Governor, Council and Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That there fhall be kept and maintained, in good and fufficient Condition and Repair, a common Gaol in every County Town, in the feveral Counties in this State. And in the County of New-London, two fuch common Gaols, to wit, one in the Town of New-London, and the other in the Town of Norwich. The whole Charge of Building, (when there fhall be Occafion) and of keeping fuch Gaols in Repair, fhall be defrayed by the County to which the fame belongs. And that the Affiftants and Justices of the Peace in the feveral Counties, fhall have full Power; and they are hereby impowered, to tax the Inhabi tants of their refpective Counties, for building, repairing and furnishing the faid Gaols, as need fhall require, and from Time to Time to order, direct and take Care of the Building, and keep in Repair the faid Gaols. And the County Courts fhall appoint a Collector in each Town within their respective Counties, to collect fuch Taxes; which Collectors fhall have the fame Powers and Fees as other Collectors of Taxes in this State have, And in cafe any Perfon fo appointed a Collector, fhall refufe the fame, fuch Collector fo refufing, fhall pay a fine of Forty Shillings, to the Treasurer of the County; unless excused by the County Court. And faid Court is hereby authorized to grant Execution to levy the fame accordingly, and to appoint another Collector, as often as there may be Occasion. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That the respective County Treasurers fhall give out their Warrants to fuch Collectors, to levy and collect such Tax; and in cafe fuch Collectors fhall refuse or neglect to pay M A gaol to be county. kept in each Two in New county. Charge how defrayed. Affiftants and juftices to tax the coun ty, to appoint County court collectors,&c Penalty on refusing to collectors for ferve. County treaf. to flue warrants, &c. |