Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1661. 411

And if the person soe nominated and appoynted shall refuse
to serve in the said office by himselfe or his deputy or to take
the oathe when tendered vnto him by the Justice of the peace
aforesaid, shall forfeite to the Lord Proprietary or his heires
the sume of fiue hundred pounds of casked tobacco or the
vallue thereof to be leauyed vpon his Goods and Chatties And
if the pson soe offending shall not haue Goods and Chatties
sufficient within this Province to sattisfye the aforesaid penalty
or that the same be not speedily sattisfyed then shall the per-
son soe offending suffer two moneths Imprisonm^t without Bayle
or Mayne prise And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid that all persons whatsoeuer that shall be here after
nominated and appoynted Justices of the peace Sherriffs and
Coroners within this Province by the Right honorable the Lord
Proprietary of this Province or his heires lords and Proprietarys
of the same or his or their Lieutennant for the tyme being
shall refuse to Execute the office of Justice of peace Sherriffe
or Coroner within this Province or to take the oathes of Justice

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of the peace Sherriffe or Coroner shall forfeite to the Lord
Proprietary and his heires one thousand pounds of Casked
tobacco or the vallue thereof to be leauyed vpon his Goods and
Chatties And if any person soe offending shall not haue Goods
and Chatties sufficient within this Province to sattisfye the afore-
said penalty or that the same be not speedily sattisfyed then
shall the person soe offending Suffer imprisoning foure moneths
without Bayle or mayne prise.
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid that
whosoeuer shall be Sumoned by writt out of any Courte of
Justice of this Province to serue as Juror in any tryall in any
Courts within this Province and shall refuse to serue in any case
depending whether Criminall or Civill not being by any other
office Exempted) and thereto lawfully required shall forfeite
to the Lord Proprietary and his heires fiue hundred pounds of
casked tobacco or the vallue thereof to be leauyed vpon his
Goods and Chatties And if any person soe offending shall not
haue Goods and Chatties within this Province to sattisfye the
aforesaid penalty or that the same be not speedily sattisfyed
then shall the person soe offending suffer two moneths Im-
prisonm^r without Bayle or Mayne prise
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid that
whoesoever being by writt lawfully Summoned and thereby
Required to serve as Wittnes in this Province and shall refuse
to testefye vpon oathe in any case depending wheth[er] Crimi-
nall or Civill shall forfeite to the Lord Propriet[ary] five
hundred pounds of tobacco to be leauyed vpon his [or] her
Goods and Chatties And if any person soe offending shall
not haue Goods and Chatties within this Province sufficient to

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