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had enfued therefrom the fame would not 
in Jaw have amounted to murder, in every 
fuch cafe the perfon fo indiéted fhall be 
deemed not guiltyof the feionies. whereof 
they fhall be indséted, but be thereef ac- 
guitied. § 1. 
Alto, it any perfon, after the faid 1ft of 
Jely 1803, fhall wilfully and malicicufly ad= 
minilter to, or caule to be adminiftered to, 
or taken by any woman, any medicines, — 
drug, or other fubftance or thing whatfo- 
ever, or fhall ufe or employ, or caufe or- 
procure to be ufed or employed, any inftru: 
ment or other means whatfoever, wich in- 
tent thereby to cauie or procure the mif- 
carriage of any woman not being, or not 
being ‘proved to be, quick with child at 
the time of adminiftring fuch things or 
- ufing fuch means, in every fuch caie the 
pe: fons fo offen. ing, their countellors, atd- 
ers, and abetcors, knowing of and privy 
to fuch offence, fhall be guilty of felony, 
and fhall be bable to be fined, impiifoned, 
ferin and upon the pillory, publickly or 
privately whipped, or to fuffer one or 
more oi the faid punifhments, or fo be 
traniparted beyond the teas for not exceed- 
ing fourteen years, at the difcretion of the 
Court. § z. 
The ftatate 21 Jac, 1. ¢.27. made in 
England, and another made in Ireland 6 
Anne, both intitled “* Agts to prevent the 
deftroying . and murthering of Battard 
Simidren, are bereny repeaied ; from the 
faid sft of July 1803, and fban and after 
that day, the trials in England and Ire- 
land refpectively of women * charged with 
the murder of any iflue of their bodies, 
male or female, which, being bern alive, 
would by law. be ah fhall proceed 
ard be governed by the like rules of evi- 
cence and ‘of prefumption as are by law 
all. wed: in refpe& to other trials for murs 
der. § 3: 
But it fhall be lawfal for the jury by 
whofe verdi&t any prifoner charged with 
fuch murder as aforefaid fhall be acquit- 
ted, to find, in cafe it fhall fo appear in 
evidence that the prifoner was delivered-of 
iffue of her bedy, male, or female, which, 
if born alive, would bave been baftard, 
and that the did, by fecret burying, or 
otherwile,’ endeavour to conces! the birth 
therecf, and ‘hercapon it fhall be lawful 
for the Court to adiudge that fuch prifenesz 
fliail be committed t. the common gaol or 
houle of carreétion for not execeding two 
§ 4 
£* An AG for acelin certain Defeats in the 
Laws relative to the building and repairing 
of County Bridges, and other Works 
maintained at the Exyence of the Inhabit- 
anis-of Counties tia” ae > (Pafied 
24th June, 1803.) 
Ii tnaiiebe lawful for the farveyor of 
Yeas; 
New AGS of the Brivipe Legiflature 
> 
[Sept, Ay 
bridges. and other public. wor les in adh 
county, appointed at. any general quar 
ter feffions, to fearch for, take, and 
carry away. gravel, . ftone, fand, and 
other materials, for the repair er fuch 
bridges and roads at the ends thereof, as 
the.inhabitants of counties are bound ta 
repair, and to remove obftructions, and 
annoyances from fuch bridges aad roads, 
in the fame manner as the furveyot of any 
common highway. § 1. Shits 
Where any bridge or roads at the ends 
thereof, revaired at the expence of any 
county, fhall be narrow and incommodious, 
the juitices,at any of their general quarter 
feflions, may order fuch bridge and roads 
to be widened, improved, and made com- 
modisus for the public ; and where any 
bridge fhall be fo much in decay as to 
render the taking the faine wholly down 
neceffary or expedient, the faid jultices,y 
at any of ther faid general quarter fef- 
fions, may order the fame to be rebuilt, 
either on the old {cite, or on any new one 
more convenient to the public, contiguous 
ta, or within two hundred yards of the_ 
former one. § 2. 
The right and property of all tools, 
implements, timber, bricks, ftones, gravels 
and other cliches purchafed, gotten, 
or had, by the order of juftices in coun- 
ties, or the furveyor of county bridges, 
or in any refpect belonging to fuch coun- 
ties, fhall be vetted in faci turveyor. § 3. 
The inhabitants of counties may fue 
for any damages done to bridges and 
other works, and for the recovering of 
any property belonging to fuch ceuntiess 
in the name of their furveyor, and alfa 
may be fued inthe name of fuch lurveyor 5 
but the furveyor fhali always be reinr- 
burfed out of the monies in the hands of 
the treafurer of the county. § 4. . 
No bridge hereafter to be erected in any 
“county, by or at the expence of any indtut- 
dual or private perfan; body polittck or 
corporate, hall be deemed or taken to be 
a county. bridge, ualefs fuch bridge foall 
be evetied ina ubftantial and commoadious: 
manner, under the direion of the county 
furveyer, or perfon appointed by the jufiices 
at ther general quarter feffions. § 5. 
Nothing herein fhall extend to any 
bridges or roads which any perfons are 
liable to maintain by reafon of tenure, oF 
prefcription. § 7. 
This act fhall be deemed a public aft. 
3. 
‘ An A& for che Relief of Soldiers, Sailors, 
and Marines, and of the Wives of Soldiersy 
inthe Cafes therein mentioned, fo far as 
relates to England.’” (Paffed 24th fune - 
1803. €ap. 61. ) 
Every foldier cr marine duly difcharged 
out 
