A. D. 1-75 1. 2^7 



the firfl, Ihall be deemed common years, confifting of 365 days ; and 

 the years 2000, 2400, 2800, and every other fourth hundredth year 

 from the year 2000 inchifive, and all other years which by the prefent 

 fupputation are efteemed to be bifiextile, or leap-years, fliall for the fu- 

 ture be efleemed to be bifiextile, or leap-years, confiiling of 366 days, 

 as is now ufed with refpect to every fourth year. 



The feaft of carter, and the moveable feafts thereon depending, fhall 

 be no longer obfcrved according to the method of fupputation now 

 ufed, or the table prefixed to the book of common prayer ; and the 

 faid table, and alfo the column of golden numbers, as they are now 

 prefixed to the refpedive days of the month in the calendar, fhall be 

 left out in all future editions of the laid book ; and the new calendar, 

 tables, and rules, annexed to the act, are to be prefixed in the flead 

 thereof: and from and after the faid 2d of September, the fixed feafts, 

 holidays, and fafts, of the church of England, and alfo the feveral fo- 

 lemn days of thankigiving and of fafting and humiliation, enjoined to 

 be obferved by parliament, fhall be oblerved on the refpective nominal 

 days marked for the celebration of the fame in the new calendar, that 

 is to fay, on the refpeciive nominal days ; and the feaft of eafter, and 

 other moveable feafts thereon depending, fhall be celebrated according 

 10 the faid annexed calendar ; and the two moveable terms of eafter 

 and trinity, and all courts, meetings, and affcmblies, of any bodies po- 

 litic or corporate, and all markets, fairs, and marts, and courts, there- 

 unto belonging, which by any law, ftatute, charter, or ufage, are to be 

 held and kept at any moveable time depending upon eafter, or other 

 moveable feaft, fhall, after the faid 2d of September, be held and kept 

 on the fame days and times whereon the fame fliall happen, according 

 to the falling of eafter by the new calendar. 



The meetings of the court of feffion, and terms fixed for the court of 

 exchequer in Scotland, the April meeting of the confervators of the 

 great level of the fens, and the holding and keeping of markets, fairs, 

 and marts, for the fale of goods or cattle, or for hiring of fervants, or 

 for other puri^ofcs, which are fixed to certain nominal days of the 

 month, or dei)ending on the beginning, or any certain day, of any 

 month, and all courts kept with I'uch fairs or marcs, fliall, after the faid 

 2d of September, be kept upon the fame natural days upon which the 

 fame would have been held if this ad had not been made, i. e. eleven 

 days later than the fame would happen according to the nominal days 

 of the new fupputation of time, by which the commencement of each 

 month, and the nominal days thereof, are brought forward eleven days. 



But this acl fliall not accelerate or anticipate the days or times for the 

 opening, inclofing, or fluitting, up of grounds, common of pallure, or 

 the days and limes on which a temporary and diftind pn^perty and. 

 right in any fuch lands or grounds is to. commence ; but ihcy fliall bt 



