Calendar Act 1751
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1751 c. 30 |
| Year | 1751 |
(25 Geo. 2) C A P. XXX.
'W H E R E A S by an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, (intituled,An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in Use ) it is among other Things enacted, That the Natural Day next immediately following the second Day of September , which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two, shall be reckoned and accounted to be the fourteenth Day of September , omitting for that Time only, the eleven intermediate nominal Days of the common Calendar, and that the Days immediately succeeding shall be called, reckoned and numbered forwards in numerical Order, from the said fourteenth Day of September , and that all Meetings and Assemblies of any Bodies Politick or Corporate, either for the Election of any Officers or Members thereof, or for any such Officers entering upon the Execution of their respective Offices, or for any other Purpose which by Law, Charter, Custom or Usage, are to be holden on any fixed or certain Day of any Month, shall from and after the said second Day of September , be holden and kept upon or according to the same respective nominal Days and Times whereon the same are then to be holden; but which should be computed according to the New Method of numbering and reckoning the Days of the Calendar as therein mentioned, as by the said Act may more fully appear: And whereas by the Charters, Customs or Usage of some Cities, Boroughs, Towns or other Communities, or Bodies Politick or Corporate, the Election of Officers, or the Entrance of Officers on the Execution of their Offices, or the doing of some other corporate Acts, may be fixed or required to be on some certain nominal Day or Days of the said Month of September , falling between the second and fourteenth Days of the same Month, which said nominal Days are by the said Act required to be dropt or omitted for this present Year, so that there will not in Fact be any nominal Days between the said second and fourteenth Days of the said Month of September for this present Year, whereon such corporate Acts can be done; and Doubts have arisen whether such corporate Acts may be done at all...
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