394 Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1674.

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Plotts of the same And the said bookes kept by the Deputies
Respectively shall be yearely Returned to the Surveyor Gen-
erall and in Case the Surveyor Generall or his Deputy or
Deputies shall neglect to keepe such bookes as aforesaid where-
by any person within this Prouince shall suffer damage by the
Losse of his Land surveyed or otherwise —
Bee itt further Enacted that the said surveyor Generall his
Deputy or Deputies in whome the fault shall be found to be
shall be Lyable to satisfie all such damages as shall be adjudged
against him in the Prouinciall Court in which Court onely the
said damage shall be tryed and for the avoyding of all Con-
tests between the Surveyors and the people of this Prouince —
Bee itt Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Surveyor
Generall or his Deputy or Deputies Respectively shall before he
or they demand his fees be bound to deliver a Certificate of his
survey to the parties for whom he surveyed the Land and that the
said party deliver the same unto the office according to his
Warrant this Act to Repeale all other Lawes Concerning Sur-
veyors fees and to Continue for three yeares or to the end of
the next Generall Assembly which shall first happen.

An Act for the payment of fees due from
Criminall persons

Whereas divers Complaints have been made by severall
Counties of this Prouince occationed for that they haue been
forced to pay the fees of Imprisoned Criminalls the persons by
whom such fees ought heretofore to haue been paid or here-
after to be paid being released and goeing free to the great
Incouragement of offenders for prevention whereof for the
future
Bee itt Enacted by the Right Hon^ble the Lord Proprietary by
and with the aduice and Consent of the upper & Lower houses
of this present Generall Assembly and the Authority of the
same that from henceforward noe person either sherriffe or
Goaler shall Charge either their own County to which they doe
belong or the Publick with any fees for any Criminall Comitted
to his or their Charge haveing a sufficient Estate in this Pro-
uince wherewith to pay the same or being Capable to make
satisfaccon for the same by servitude or otherwise but that
such Criminalls as aforesaid being discharged by order of

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Course of Law shall pay his own fee to the sherriffe or Goaler
according to act of Assembly either out of his said Estate or by
Servitude or otherwise whatsoever and the said sherriffe or
Goaler shall not demand of such Criminall soe discharged by
order as aforesaid any fee for any thing after the said order
made unlesse the party soe freed as aforesaid shall delay pay-
ment of such fees by servitude or otherwise.