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     at least none has been put on oflicial record, ex- 
     
     pt we may infer from the known consequences of 
     
     m and red cloth, and the fact that at this time there 
     
     as asort of shaking among the dry bones, which 
     
     ere made more steady by neutralising the “ shame- 
     
     lviolation of public decorum and good order,” by 
     
     legislative revival—observance of the Lord’s Day. 
     
     new countries and new legislatures, a great deal 
     
     fthe impossible becomes matter for law, and at this 
     
     ime even, (1861) it would be impossible to carry 
     
     ut the intentions of the early law givers, in regard 
     
     salmon and eel fisheries, which have in reality 
     
     ttle or no existence in the industries of the people. 
     
     t this time this mountain in labor brought forth a 
     
     ouse, for St. John smiled on the “New Ireland” 
     
     dea, which was choked to death under the operation 
     
     if a. “suspending” clause, and not approved ofby 
     
     is Majesty. Bothered creditors and nimble debtors 
     
     ad a game of bo-peep about this time, but in case 
     
     hey hurt one another, there was three years reser— 
     
     cd to heal the bruises. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
         
     
        
     
       
     
         
     
          
     
          
     
         
     
       
     
        
     
        
     
         
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
         
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
     The subjects of \V'ills and Legacies, Executors 
     
     nd Intestates, Arbitration and Umpirage, Bears and 
     
     randy, Drawbacks and Duties, Streets and Wells, 
     
     arts and Sleds, Vestries and the baptism of" Slaves, 
     
     ssault and Battery, Trespass and Slander, and 
     
     ivers others must have kept the House of Assembly 
     
     retty busy in 1781, if we take their law records as 
     
     n evidence. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The year 1785 again found the old law shop at 
     
     work. and the graving tools of the carvers touching 
     
     up old chiselling‘s, dipping their fingers in wine, rum, 
     
     and brandy; interfering with contracts for goods; 
     
     admitting depositions from persons unable to travel; 
     
     accommodating departing witnesses; and permitting 
     
     Quakers not to swear. All these things happened 
     
     and consumed doubtless a great deal of stationery, 
     
     for we find l‘illS Majesty in Council frowning the sub- 
     
     ect of another supply of stationery under his royal 
     
     footstool. This was hardly justice to the legislature