Acts. 95

to the End that this Act may be known by all Sorts of Peopele Be
it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Several Sheriffs within
this Province shall read or Cause this Act to be read at Each of
the four County Courts in Every Year during the Continuance of
this Act on Pain of forfeiting five pounds Current money for Every
Neglect to be recovered as af^d with Cost of Suit by Indictment or
Information in the Court of the County where such Neglect shall
happen and Applied to Defray the County Charge This Act to
Continue for three Years and to the End of the next Session of
Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said Three
Years.

An Act to Encourage the Apprehending some Fellons and for Trying
Accessarys to Felonys by them Committed before Conviction of
the Principals
Whereas William Turner late of Queen Anns County Planter
and Edward Turner late of the said County Labourer have in the
most daring manner for many years past frequently Committed and
do still Continue to Commit within this Province near to the Borders
of it Felonies which by the Laws of England and this Province Are
and ought to be Punished with Death And Whereas the said William
and Edward Stand Indicted for Feloniously Breaking and Entring
the Store House of Isaiah Robinson in Queen Anns County in the
same Province And Stealing taking and Bearing away out of the
Same House Divers Goods & Chattels of the same Isaiah of a Con-
siderable Value upon which Indictment many Writs have in Vain
issued for their Apprehension And Whereas many Attempts in
Divers parts of this Province to take the said Offenders have been
rendered Fruitless by their Threatening to kill their Pursuers with
Pistols and other Dangerous Weapons with which they always Ride
Armed and the Apprehensions of those Pursuers that it may be a
Transgression of the Laws to kill the said Offenders in such At-
tempts to take them which Disparity in favour of the said Offenders
will Probably for Ever Enable them to Escape the Punishment
Justly due to their Crimes And Whereas it is greatly feared that the
Difficulty of Apprehending these Offenders notwithstanding their
Publick Appearance in Divers Parts of this Province in the Day
time will Encourage Other Persons flying from Justice to Join
with them In Committing felonys and Roberies to the Manifest and
Apparent Danger of the Lives and Properties of all his Majesty s
Subjects within this Province for Prevention and remedy thereof
Be it Declared and Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary by & with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships
Governour and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the Same that if Any Person or Persons shall Take &
Arrest the said William Turner or Edward Turner and Shall Deliver

Chap. VIII
p. 178