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vided alwayes that this Act nor any thing therein Conteyned
shall not extend to debarr any person whatsoever from takeing
his Legall Remedy against any sherriffs for takeing Extortious
fees or any other offence whatsoever relateing to his office
any thing in this Act to the Contrary in any wise notwith-
standing This Act to endure for three yeares or to the end
of the next Generall Assembly which shall first happen—
An Act for the better administracon of Justice in the County
Courtes of this Province
For the Administracon of Justice in and Regulation of the
County Courtes Bee itt Enacted by the Right Honble the Lord
Proprietary by & wth the aduice & consent of the upper &
Lower houses of this present Generall Assembly and the
Authority of the same that the Statute bookes of England to
these times named Keebles abridgements of the Statutes &
Daltons Justice of the Peace be bought by the Justices of the
Peace or Comissioners of the severall County Courtes at the
Charge of the Respective Countyes to be kept in their severall
County Courtes that the Justices and officers of the said
Courtes and others may haue Recourse to the same as they
shall have occasion & that the said Justices of the said Courtes
doe purchase and procure the same by the first day of January
in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy &
Nyne,
And be itt alsoe Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
the Comissioners of each respective County Court shall & may
& are hereby impowered from time to time & as often as to
them shall seeme Convenient to make & ordaine such neces-
sary Rules & orders for the well governing and better Regu-
lateing the said County Courtes and the officers to the same
belonging & suiters to the same as to them in their discretion
shall seeme Requisite & under such fines as they shall think
fitt (not Exceeding one hundred pounds of Tob for any one
offence) all which fines to be imployed to the vse of the poore
of each Respective County which rules and orders soe by them
to be made & ordained shall be fairely transcribed by their
severall County Clarkes & att every their County Courts sett
up att the Court house doore that all persons may view and
pervse the same and Regulate themselves accordingly
And Bee itt Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that where
any Judgment is had in any County Court for any matter or
thing whatsoever and after such Judgment had & obtained
the party against whome the same is had many times flyes into
another County out of the Jurisdiccon of the said County Court
itt shall and maybe Lawfull for the plt to procure a Certificate
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