482
WINDHAM CON.
PARISH.
March
3,
An. 1809,
lend against the provisions of this act, or of the act to which
any Justice of the peace in the county
Avhere such person hves or resides, is hereby authorized
and empowered to take cognizance of, hear, and determine
all such oftences, in the same manner as if the offence
had been committed within tlie county for which he is a
Justice of the Peace.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted^ That all forfeitures incurred by the provisions of this act, shall be recovered in
the manner and to the uses specified in the act, to which
this is in addition,
this is in addition.
[This act passed March
3,
1809.]
CHAP. LXXIX.
An
act to incorporate the First Congregational Parish in
the town of
J3E
Windham.
enacted bij the Senate and House of
General Court assembled, and by the
Representatives,
same,
oj
the
That Paul Little, Josiah Chute, Samauthority
uel Barker, Jonathan Andrew, Ephraim W^inship, Joseph
Chadburn, William Stevens, John Stevens, Asa Senter,
John Chute, John Mugford, Joshua Wilson, Jonathan Wil-
Sect.
1.
it
in
poSted/"*'''"
Elijah Hunnewell, Wm. HunneJames May berry, jun. John Crague, He zekiah Frost,
PeterT. Smith, Hezekiah Smith, Thomas Chute, John Gallison, Paul Little, Jun. John Gallison, jun. Robinson Davis,
Peter Brown, Thomas Bai'ker, Silvanus Gallison, Charles
Johnson, N. J. Senter, Eben. Proctor, jun. John Trickey,
Rowland Rand, Josiah Webb, Robert Plumer, James Mayberry, Edward Anderson, William Hanson, Simeon Goold,
Abraham Anderson, jun. Robert Lovet, Jonathan Lovet,
James Emery, Jonathan LeaAat,
jun. Joshua Emery,
William Lovit, William Elkins, and David Chute, together with their families and estates, and such others of the inhabitants of said town of Windham, as may hereafter associate with them, be, and they are hereby incorporated into
a Religious Society by the name of The First Congregason,
Abraham Anderson,
well,
tio!ial
Parish in
Windham, with
all
the powers, privileges,
and immunities to which other parishes and religious societies are entitled, by the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth.
Sect.
HABEAS CORPUS.
March
4,
An. 1809:
2. Be it further enacted^ That nothinp^ in this act
be construed, to alter, or in anywise affect the rights,
secured to them, by an act passed the second day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
four, entitled, " An act to establish a fund for the support
of the Congregational Minister in the town of Whidham,
in the county of Cumberland, and appointing Trustees for
483
Sect.
shall
management
Sect. 3. Be
the
thereof.
it further enacted^
That any Justice of
the Peace in the county of Cumberland is hereby authorized and empowered to issue his warrant directed to some
suitable inhabitant of said town of Windham, requiring him
to notify and warn a meeting of the members of said Congregational Parish, at such time and place as shall be express-
ed
in said w^arrant, for the
cers as parishes are
month of March
*
Justice to issuf?
^"* vvanaiu.
purpose of choosing sucli offito choose in the
by law empowered
or April annuall}%
[This act passed March
3,
1809.]
CHAP. LXXX.
An
act in addition to "
An
act directing the process in
Ha-
beas Corpus."
VV HEREAS the Supreme Judicial Court
term time, and any one or more of the Judges thereof in
the vacation time of said Court, are respectively authorized
and required to award a writ of Habeas Corpus, but no authority is given to any one Judge of said Court, to award
that writ in term time, from which defect great inconvenin
ience
may
Therefore
enacted by the Senate
Pipambip.
arise.
BE
and House of BepreGeneral Court assembled^ and by the authority^
of the same, That any one Judge of the Supreme Judicial
Court in term time, as well as in the vacation, shall be,,
and is hereby authorized and required to awaid the writ
of Habeas Corpus in due form of law, directed to the of- .tik'ctc antiio-izcd to award
ficer, or person imprisoning or restraining the complainant, ^5;*^
J,"t'on}Li
returnal^le forth\v'ith to such Judge who ordered the same, beas Coi-pus
or to any other Judge of said Court, in all cases, where by
the Constitution and the law of the land, that writ ouaht
lo be awarded.
[This act passed March 4, 1809„]
it
sentativeSy in
CHAF.