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Addenda 1644



1644 Autigua.	194. Eight Acts passed by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of Antigua, viz.:—November 20, against carnal copulation between Christian and heathen. November 12, against incest; against removing from one division to another without order; appointing the proportion of ammunition to be kept in private houses; against the transporting of timber without license; against heaving ballast or other hurtful matter out of any shipping or vessels within any of the harbours or roads of this Island; against indebted runaways suing for their creditors by attorneys, and concerning the measuring of land by sworn surveyors, &c. Each Act is signed Henry Ashton, Governor. Together, 9 pp. [Col. Entry Bk., No. 49, pp. 49–57.]