68 Assembly Proceedings, October—November 1678.

Liber W. H.
& L.

Quarelling in his house upon Complaint made thereof to the
Justices of the County Court of such Ordinary keepers misbe-
haviour of himselfe or keeping evill rule in their house the
said Justices of the said County Court may and are hereby
Authorized and impowered to supresse such Ordinary and call
in such Licence
And Bee itt further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
any Ordinary keeper disabled or suppressed as aforesaid or
any other person that shall presume to keepe ordinary without
Licence first had and obteined as aforesaid shall for every
moneth he or they shall keepe Ordinary as aforesaid forfeit
and pay to the Lord Proprietary tenn thousand pounds of
Tobacco one halfe thereof to his Lordshipp and the other halfe
to him or them that shall informe and sue for the same to be
Recovered in any Court of Record in this Province by bill
plaint or Informacon wherein noe Essoigne proteccon or wager
of Law to be allowed—
And lastly itt is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
That the Justices of the Provinciall Court and the Comissioners
of the Respective County Courts shall give this Act in Charge
to the severall grand Juryes as alsoe the severall Comissioners
of the Respective County Courts and the Majestrates of the
said Citty to their severall and Respective Constables to
enquire into the breach of this Act and into all disorders
Comitted in the said Ordinaryes and present the same if any
be to the said severall Courtes there to be Examined and pun-
ished according to Law this Act to Continue for three yeares
or to the end of the next Generall Assembly which shall first
happen—

An Act for Elleccon of Sherriffe

Forasmuch as there haue lately been great Complaints
Generally made from all part of this Province of the great
absurdities and abuses Comitted by severall Sherriffes of this
Province upon severall Inhabitants of the same
Redresse whereof the Honnourable Thomas Notley Esq^r
present Go Leivtenant Generall of this Province vnder
the Right Hon^ble and Proprietary of the same by and
with the advice and Consent hath Caused to bee
published and Proclaimed throughout this Pro reason-
able Proclamacon vnder the great Seale of Seven-

P. 148

teenth day of October in the Third yeare of the Dominion of
the Right Hon^ble Charles &c. Annoq Domini one thousand six
hundred seventy & Eight And Whereas itt hath Evidently
appeared by the Continuall and frequent Clammours of Poore
Indigent people that the long Continuance of the severall