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CIVIL PRACTICE-Continued

Act providing for execution of conveyances of property in compliance
with the contracts of deceased persons...

General act regarding appointment and duties of guardians.
Act providing for removal of property of nonresident ward..

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.6147, 6148 1771

.6149-6197 1772
.6198-6201 1782

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Chapter 9-Imprisonment on more than one conviction-Acts punish-
able under foreign law-Contempts punishable as crimes-Sending
letter, when complete, and venue....

.6303-6307 1815

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Chapter 28-On repeal

6802-6830 1927

.6831-6834 1933

Act making criminal the selling of liquor to habitual drunkards or dipso-
maniacs

Act prohibiting sale of liquor within five miles of construction camps..

6836-6838 1939
6839-6841 1940

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Act creating coroner districts, making justices of the peace ex officio coro-
ners, and defining their duties...

.7542-7560

2087

Acts relating to the government of the state prison...
Act to provide for the release of certain prisoners in the state prison... .7586, 7587
Act relating to the expenses for the transportation of indigent insane per-

.7561-7585, 7588, 7589

2091

2098

sons and convicts......

7590-7592

2099

Act fixing the salary of the warden of the state prison...
Act relating to the recapture of escaped prisoners from the state prison......7594, 7595
Act relating to payment to prisoners discharged from state prison.
Act of 1911 relating to employment of convicts on public highways and
providing a fund therefor..

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Act authorizing the employment of criminals confined in jails.

.7617-7622 2105

PARDONS AND PAROLES

Act of 1867 to make effective power of governor, justices of supreme court
and attorney-general to remit fines and forfeitures, commute punish-
ments, and grant pardons after conviction.

.7623-7630

2107

Rules of board of pardons, following..

7630

2109

Act to establish a board of parole commissioners for the parole of and

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MAGNA CARTA'

THE GREAT CHARTER OF LIBERTIES OF KING JOHN

Granted at Runningmede, June 15, A. D. 1215, in the Seventeenth Year of His Reign

John, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, DUKE OF NORMANDY, Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Earls, Barons, Justiciaries, Foresters, Sheriffs, Governors, Officers, and to all Bailiffs, and his lieges, greeting. Know ye, that we, in the presence of God, and for the salvation of our soul, and the souls of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of Holy Church, and amendment of our Realm, by advice of our venerable Fathers, STEPHEN, archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, HENRY, Archbishop of Dublin, WILLIAM of London, PETER of Winchester, JOCELIN of Bath and Glastonbury, HUGH of Lincoln, WALTER of Worcester, WILLIAM of Coventry, BENEDICT of Rochester, Bishops; of Master PANDULPH, Sub-Deacon and Familiar of our Lord the Pope, Brother AYMERIC, Master of the KnightsTemplars in England; and of the Noble Persons, WILLIAM MARESCALL, Earl of Pembroke, WILLIAM, Earl of Salisbury, WILLIAM, Earl of Warren, WILLIAM, Earl of Arundel, ALAN DE GALLOWAY, Constable of Scotland, WARIN FITZ GERALD, PETER FITZ HERBERT, and HERBERT DE BURGH, Seneschal of Poitou, HUGH DE NEVILLE, MATTHEW FITZ HERBERT, THOMAS BASSET, ALAN BASSET, PHILIP OF ALBINEY, ROBERT DE ROPPELL, JOHN MARESCHAL, JOHN FITZ HUGH, and others our liegemen, have in the first place, granted to God, and by this our present Charter confirmed, for us and our heirs for ever:

1. That the Church of England shall be free, and have her whole rights, and her liberties inviolable; and we will have them so observed, that it may appear thence, that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned chief and indispensable to the English Church, and which we granted and confirmed by our Charter, and obtained the confirmation of the same from our Lord the Pope Innocent III., before the discord between us and our barons, was granted of mere free will; which charter we shall observe, and we do will it to be faithfully observed by our heirs for ever.

2. We also have granted to all the freemen of our kingdom, for us and for our heirs for ever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and holden by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs for ever: If any of our earls, or barons, or others, who hold of us in chief by military service, shall die, and at the time of his death his heir shall be of full age, and owes a relief, he shall have his inheritance by the ancient relief; that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for a whole earldom, by a hundred pounds; the heir or heirs of a baron, for a whole barony, by a hundred pounds; the heir or heirs of a knight, for a whole knight's fee, by a hundred shillings at most; and whoever oweth less shall give less, according to the ancient custom of fees.

Text here followed is Prof. Creasy's translation, Eng. Const., p. 120.

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