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Enrolled Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey
1774-1775

11 March 1774	An Act for defraying Incidental Charges.
11 March 1774	An Act more effectually to punish the Counterfeiters of foreign Gold or Silver Coin current within the Colony of New-Jersey, and the Utterers thereof, knowing the same to be Counterfeit.
11 February 1775	An Act for the Preservation of Oysters in the Colony of New-Jersey.
11 February 1775	An Act to confirm and establish a Road laid out by Virtue of an Act, An Act for laying out and establishing a Road from Bergen Point along up Newark Bay, and from thence to Paulus-Hook, on Hudson's River.
11 February 1775	An Act to assess the Township of Amwell, in order to reimburse Joseph Moore for repairing a Bridge in said Township.
11 February 1775	An Act for raising the Sum of Three Hundred and Fifty-seven Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eleven-pence, Proclamation Money, on the Inhabitants of the County of Somerset, for repaying certain Persons therein named the Money they have advanced rebuilding Queen's Bridge.
11 February 1775	An Act for raising the Sum of One Hundred and Twenty-two Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Three-pence, Proclamation Money, on the Inhabitants of the Counties of Middlesex and Somerset, for repaying the Managers of the Landing Bridge the Money they have advanced for completing the said Bridge.
11 February 1775	An Act to erect and establish Courts in the several Counties in this Colony for the Trial of small Causes, and to repeal the former Act for that Purpose.
11 February 1775	An Act for the Support of Government of His Majesty's Colony of New-Jersey, to commence the First Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-four, and to end the First Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-five, and to discharge the Publick Debts and Contingent Charges thereof.
11 February 1775	An Act for raising the Sum of Three Hundred and Fifty-seven Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eleven-pence, Proclamation Money, on the Inhabitants of the County of Somerset, for repaying certain Persons therein named the Money they have advanced in rebuilding Queen's Bridge.
13 February 1775	A supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
6 December 1775	An Act for the Support of Government of His Majesty's Colony of New-Jersey, to commence the first Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-five, and to end the first Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-six; and to discharge the publick Debts and contingent Charges thereof.
6 December 1775	A Supplementary Act to the Act, entitled, An Act for striking One Hundred Thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit and directing the Mode for sinking the same.
6 December 1775	An Act for the speedy Recovery of Debts from Six pounds to Ten Pounds.
6 December 1775	An Act to provide a more effectual Remedy against excessive Costs in the Recovery of Debts above Ten Pounds, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
6 December 1775	An Act to authorize the Board of Justices and Freeholders of the several Counties in the Colony of New-Jersey, to defray the Expence of taking Lists of the Inhabitants.
6 December 1775	An Act to prevent Rams from running at Large at certain Seasons of the Year.
6 December 1775	An Act to empower Isaac Haines to erect a Dam, Mills and other Waterworks on the southermost Branch of Ancocas Creek, in the Township of Evesham, in the County of Burlington.
6 December 1775	An Act to enable the Owners and Possessors of Meadows and Tide-Marsh, lying on both Sides of the South Branch of Pensawkin Creek, in the Counties of Burlington and Gloucester, to erect and maintain a Bank, Dam and other Waterworks across the said Creek, in order to prevent the Tide from overflowing the same.

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