Whereas by and in the said Additional Act passed in the Year 1729, One Justice shall have power to try and finally determine all causes under Forty shillings, and the Chief Justice for the time being, or Two Justices, shall try all Causes of Five pounds and under, and it having been found that such easy and Speedy Remedy in small Causes, is very beneficial to the Inhabitants of this Province, but the said Act being made temporary, and not now in force, the time limitted being expired:

We pray His most sacred Majesty that it may be Enacted, And be it hereby Enacted, by His Excellency the Governour Council and General Assembly, That from and after the ratification of this Act, that the said Additional Act to the Act for tryal of small and mean causes past in the Year 1729, and every Clause thereof, be and remain in full force, and that it be hereafter deemed and taken as a publick Act.

CO 5/333, f. 7
Not included in the revisal of 1749.