Acts of the legislature of the island of Tobago
Subtitle: from 1768, to 1775, inclusive
Publisher: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty.
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: History; Politics and government
Other titles: Laws of Tobago.
Work titles: Laws, etc
Notes: Signatures: a-b² (a1, b2 versos blank) B-H² I² (-I2)

Title printed with ruled border; engraved seal of Great Britain on title page; head and tail pieces.

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English short title catalogue, T100407.

Purchase; 1905; 936.
Table of contents: title: (From table of contents) An act for the good order and government of slaves, and for keeping them under proper restraint; for establishing the method of trial in capital cases; and other regulations for the greater security of that part of the inhabitants property; title: An act to ascertain the rate of interest, and for settling the damages on bills of exchange legally protested; title: An act for establishing and regulating a register's office in this island; title: An act declaring slaves, mules, boilers, stills, and still-heads, and other plantation utensils, belonging to mills, boiling-houses, and still-houses, to be real estate; title: An act to prevent undue frequenting of taverns and tippling houses, and to restrain persons not licensed from selling by retail rum, or any other spirituous or fermented liquors, and to prevent the clandestine imporation of the same; title: An act to regulate, restrict, and direct the conduct of the publick treasurer of this island, and to appoint the method of fixing his salary; title: An act for establishing a Court of Common Pleas, and a Court of Error within this island, and declaring also the method and manner of proceeding to judgement and execution; title: An act to enable articers, labourers, servants, and poor settlers, to recover debts in a summary way; title: An act for appointing an agent to negociate the affairs of this island in Great Britain, appointing a recompence for his trouble, and settling methods for the better management of that trust; title: An act for raising a sum of money for improving the publick roads, for discharging the publick debts of this island, and to answer other necessary purposes; title: An act for the application of a sum of money appropriated for the making, altering, repairing, and enlarging the publick roads, and to appoint proper persons to direct and lay out the same; title: An act to enable to commissioners appointed in and by an act of this island, passed in the tenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for the application of a sum of money appropriated for the making, altering, repairing, and enlarging the publick roads, and to appoint persons to direct and lay out the same, to execute the duties and officers therein prescribed; title: An act to vest the fee simple, and inheritance of, in all that certain undivided moiety late of William Williams, late of the island of Grenada, merchant, deceased, of and in two certain plantation lots or parcels of land, distinguished by the denominations of lot number twenty-eight, and lot number twenty-nine, of Sandy Point division, now called the parish of St. Patrick, in this island; and also the undivided moiety of the buildings thereon erected, and of eighteen slaves thereto belonging, in William Sloane, of the said parish of St. Patrick, in this island, Esq; and his heirs and assigns for ever; title: An act for repealing such part of the seventh clause of an act of this island, intituled, An act for raising a sum of money for improving the public roads, for discharging the publick debts of this island, and to answer other necessary purposes, as appropriates that part of the money raised by virtue of the said act for making, altering, repairing, and enlarging the publick roads of this island, and for applying the said money for discharging the expences incurred by the late insurrection of the rebellious slaves; title: An act for establishing and regulating a militia in this island; title: An act for raising a sum of money by a tax upon lands in this island, subject to the deduction specified, and for applying the same for the discharge of the publick debts and exigences of the colony; title: An act for altering and amending the fourth clause of an act, intituled, An act for establishing and regulating a militia in this island; title: An act for the application of a sum of money appropriated for the making, altering, repairing, and enlarging the publick roads, and to appoint proper persons to direct and lay out the same; title: An act for continuing the establishment of a militia in this island, and for making regulations with regard to the order, discipline, and good government thereof.; title: (From table of contents, continued) An act to regulate the method of conducting roads from the interior plantations to church and market; title: An act to continue and amend an act, intituled, An act for establishig a Court of Common Pleas, and a Court of Error, within this island; and declaring also the method and manner of proceeding to judgement and execution; title: An act to constiture a court-merchant; title: An act to establish a Court of Quarter Sessions on this island; title: An act to provide for the maintenance and support of the widow and children of Russel Chapman, gentleman, late adjutant of the battalion of militia in this island; title: An act to explain and amend an act of this island, intituled, An act for establishing and regulating a register's office in this island; title: An act for regulating trespasses; title: An act to appoint proper persons to take charge of the batteries intended to defend the bays of this island, and the service of the same; title: An act for appropriating the tax upon unsettled town lots to the use and improvement of the respective towns where levied, and to appoint proper persons for applying and directing the same; title: An act for raising a sum of money for payment of the public debts and contingent charges of this island; for making new roads of communication through the unsettled parts of the country, and for improving those already begun; title: An act to appoint proper persons to superintend the laying-out, directing, and repairing of the publick roads of this island; and to apply a sum of money appropriated by an act of this year, intituled, An act for raising a sum of money for payment of the publick debts and contingent charges of this island; and for making new roads of communication through the unsettled parts of the country, and improving those already begun; title: An act for establishing Courts of Common Pleas, Error, King's Bench, and Grand Sessions, for the better regulating and settling methods for the administration of justice, and for the more effectual support of credit; title: An act for the good order and government of slaves; and for repealing an act of this island, intituled, An act fot the good order and government of slaves, and for keeping them under proper restraint; for establishing the method of trial in capital cases; and other regulations for the greater security of that part of the inhabitants property; title: An act for establishing a Court of Chancery in this island.