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![handle is hein.ssl/ssma0552 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS
PASSED AT THE SESSION BEGUN AND HELD AT CAM-
BRIDGE, ON THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF MAY,
A. D. 1772, AND HELD, BY ADJOURNMENT, AT BOSTON,
ON THE SIXTEENTH* DAY OF JUNE FOLLOWING.
CHAPTER 1.
AN ACT FOR ALTERING THE TIME FOR HOLDING THE COURT OF
GENERAL SESSIONS OF THE PEACE AND INFERIOR COURT OF
COMMON PLEAS IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
WHEREAs the holding of the courts of general sessions of the Preamble.
peace, and inferior courts of common pleas, within the counties of
Middlesex and Worcester at one and the same time, is attended with
many inconvenienc[i]es to both counties; for remedy whereof, -
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and House of Representatives,
[SECT. -1.] That the court of general sessions of the peace and Times for hold.
inferior court of common pleas, which by law are required to be held cte rt n.
in and for the coanty of Middlesex, at Concord, on the fli'st Tuesday cord, altered.
of September next, shall be held there on the second Tuesday of the 1 o chap.
same month; and that a court of general sessions of the peace and
an inferior court of common pleas shall, for the future, annually, be
held in and for the same county, at Concord, on the second Tuesday
of September.
And be it further enacted,
[SECT. 2.] That all writs, executions, appeals, recognizances, Writs, &c.,to be
warrants, indictments, presentments, causes, actions, suits, processes, returned aceord.
matters and things, whatsoever, that are or shall be returnable into,
or that should or might have been heard, adjudged, determined or
acted upon at the said court of general sessions of the peace, or
inferior court of common pleas, which wou[1]d, and by law ought to,
have been held at Concord on the first Tuesday of September next, if
this act had not been made, shall be returnable into, be heard. ad-
judged, determined and acted upon at the said court of general ses-
sions of the peace, or inferior court of common pleas, respectively, to
be held there, in and for the same county, on the second Tuesday of
September next. [Passed July 14.
* Erroneously printed eleventh, In the sessions-acts.
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