288 A. D. 1751. 



refpectively opened, and inclofed, or lliut up, aiid fliall commence on 

 the lame natural days and times after the faid 2d of September as be- 

 fore the making of this ad, that is, eleven days later than the fame 

 would happen according to the new fupputalion of time. 



Neither fhall this adl accelerate or anticipate the times of payment of 

 rents, annuities, or other monies, which fliall become payable in confe- 

 quence of any cuftom, ufage, leafe, deed, writing, or other contract or 

 agreement, now fubfifting, or which (hall be entered into before the 

 faid 14th of September, or which fliall become payable by virtue of 

 any ad: of parliament ; nor accelerate the payment, or increafe the in- 

 terefl, of any money which fliall become payable as aforefaid, or the 

 time ot the delivery of any goods or other things whatfoever, or the 

 commencement or determination of any leafes or demifes of lands, &c. 

 or other contrads or agreements, annuity, or rent, or of any grant fur a 

 term of years. Sec, or the time of attaining the age of 21 years, or any 

 other age recjuifite by law, ufage, or writing, for doing any ad, or for 

 any other purpofe, by any perfons now born, or who fhall be born, be- 

 fore the faid 14th of September ; or the time of the determination of 

 any apprenticefliip or other fervice by indenture, or by articles under 

 feal, or by reafon of any fimple contrad or hiring : but all thefe fliall 

 commence, ceafe, and determine, at and upon the fame natural days 

 and times on which they would have happened if this ad had not been 

 made. 



By a fubfequent law (of the 25th of George II) to amend this ad, it 

 was enaded, ift, that from the 2d of September 1752 the refpedive 

 times for opening, ufing, or inclofing, grounds for common paflure, 

 and the payment of rents, &c. fliall, if fuch times are depending on any 

 of the moveable feafts, take place according to the new calendar : 2dly, 

 the annual admiflion and fwearing of the lord-mayor of London at 

 Guildhall hereafter fliall be on the 8th of November, and the folemnity 

 of fu earing him at the court «f exchequer at Weftrainfler on the 9th 

 of the fame month of November yearly. 



It were farther to be wifhed, that, when the legiflature were upon a 

 fubjed fo ufeful to commerce and chronology, they had turned their 

 thoughts to the prefent method of dating ads of parliament from the 

 years of the reigning king, without mentioning the year of our Lord 

 Chrift, as in the laws of many other nations ; whereby much uncer- 

 tainty and frequent miftakes happen in compuiing a number of years 

 between a certain year of one king's reign to a certain year of another 

 king's reign, or to the prefent time. This is frequently complained 

 of, though not yet remedied : yet this may eafily be remedied in fu- 

 ture, by fuperadding the year of our Lord Chrifl to the year of the 

 reigning king. 4 



