Timber Act 1767
TIMBER ACT 1767 | ||
CHAP. XX. | ||
An Act for continuing, reviving, and amending several Temporary Statutes, and other Purposes therein mentioned. | ||
Sheriffs. | ||
1 G 3. 17. fee 1. continuing 3 G. 2. 9 fee. 7. further continued 8 years, &c. from 1 May 1769. | ||
WHEREAS the several temporary laws and statutes herein after mentioned are found to be of general use, and fit to be continued: be it enacted 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, That a clause in an act passed the first year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for reviving, continuing, and amending several temporary statutes, whereby so much of an act of the third year of the late King George the second, entitled, An act for the further explaining and amending several statutes for prohibiting under sheriffs and sheriffs clerks from officiating as under sheriffs or sheriffs clerks more than one year, and to render more effectual an act to prevent fees being taken in certain cases, and to take away the pretended office of barony clerk, and to oblige sheriffs to appoint deputies for granting replevins, and also for discharging of prisoners unable to pay their fees, as relates to bills of discovery therein mentioned, and obliges all persons to answer the same without pleading or demurring thereto, and which said clause is near expiring, shall and may be continued from the first day of May, which will be in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine, for eight years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Parliament, and no longer. |