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CAP. XXXVIII.

An ACT to repeal the Act now in force against the profanation of the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and for the suppression of Immorality, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

Passed 31st March, 1831.

Preamble.

 
WHEREAS the Act now in force against the profanation of the Lord's Day, and for the suppression of immorality, has been found insufficient for the purposes intended;

26 G. 3, C. 5, repealed.

 

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the President, Council, and Assembly, That an Act passed in the twenty sixth year of the reign of His Majesty George the Third, intituled "An Act against the profanation of the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and for the suppression of immorality," be and the same is hereby repealed.

Shooting, gaming, &c. on the Lord's day.

 

 
Drunkenness or disturbing public worship on that or any other day.

Penalty.

Mode of recovery.

 

 

 

Application.

 

Complaint to be within ten days.

 
II.   And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act all persons within this Province, of what description soever, who shall be convicted, either on view or by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before any one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in any County within this Province, of shooting, gaming, sporting, playing, hunting, or frequenting tippling houses, or of servile labour (works of necessity and mercy excepted), on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, or who shall be convicted of drunkenness or the disturbance of the public worship of God, either on that or any other day, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not less than five shillings nor more than twenty shillings, at the discretion of such Justice, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels at public auction, by warrant under the hand and seal of any Justice of the Peace, the overplus (if any) after deducting costs of prosecution to be returned to the owner of such distrained goods; and for want of goods and chattels to satisfy such forfeiture and costs, such offender shall for every such offence, by warrant under the hand and seal of the Justice of the Peace before whom convicted, be committed to the common gaol of such County, or the lock up house of the Parish (having such a house) where the offence was committed, and there kept in close confinement for a term not less than twelve hours nor more thn four days, at the discretion of the Justice before whom he or she shall have been so convicted; all forfeitures incurred by virtue of this Act to be applied towards the relief of the poor of the Parish in which they shall respectively have been incurred:   Provided always, that the complaint shall be within ten days after the commission of such offence.

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C. 38. Anno I. Wm. IV.   A. D. 1831.


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