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13 & 14 C. 2. c. 1.
17 C. 2. c. 2.
22 C. 2. c. 1.
1 & 2 W. & M. c. 18.
10 Ann. c. 2.
52 G. 3. c. 155. extended to Colonies in which any of recited Acts are in force.
Special Justices to have same Power in Colonies as Justices under 52 G. 3. c. 155.
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LXI. ‘And whereas in some of the Colonies aforesaid a certain Statute, made in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for preventing the Mischiefs and Dangers that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths; and a certain other Statute, made in the Seventeenth Year of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for restraining Nonconformists from inhabiting in Corporations; and a certain other Statute, made in the Twenty-second Year of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act to prevent and suppress seditious Conventicles; and a certain other Statute, made in the First and Second Year of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws; and a certain other Statute, made in the Tenth Year of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion by better securing the Church of England as by Law established; and for confirming the Toleration granted to Protestant Dissenters by an Act intituled ‘An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws,’ and for supplying the Defects thereof; and for the further securing the Protestant Succession by requiring the Practicers of the Law in North Briton to take the Oaths and subscribe the Declaration therein mentioned; or some or one of those Statutes, or some Parts thereof or of some of them, have and hath been adopted, and are or is in force;’ be it further enacted, That in such of the Colonies aforesaid in which the said several Statutes or any of them, or any Parts thereof or any of them, have or hath been adopted and are or is in force, a certain Statute made in the Fifty-second Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to repeal certain Acts and amend other Acts relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein, shall be and is hereby declared to be in force as fully and effectually as if such Colonies had been expressly named and enumerated for that Purpose in such last-recited Statute: Provided nevertheless, that in the said several Colonies to which the said Act of His late Majesty King George the Third is so extended and declared applicable as aforesaid any Two or more Justices of the Peace holding any such Special Commission as aforesaid shall have, exercise, and enjoy all and every the Jurisdiction, Powers, and Authorities whatsoever which by force and virtue of the said Act are within the Realm of England had, exercised, and enjoyed by the several Justices of the Peace, and by the General and Quarter Sessions therein mentioned.
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