Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692. 489

and Aldermen of the Citty of S^t Maries at the Mayors Court
be and are hereby Authorized from time to time and as often
as need shall require, to grant Lycences to such person or
persons as they shall think fitt to be Ordinary keepers and
Inneholders for the keeping of Ordinarys and Houses of
Entertainment for so long time and in such and so many
places within their Severall and respective Counties and Citty
aforesaid, for the ease and Convenience of the Inhabitants Trav-
ellers and Strangers as to them respectively shall seem meet,
for which Lycences the said Persons that shall be so Lycenced
to keepe Ordinarys shall at the time of his or their taking of
such Lycence or Lycences, be bound and obliged to pay unto
the Governor of this Province ior the time being, if he or they
keep Ordinary within the Citty of S^t Marys or within two Miles
thereof two Thousand pounds of Tobacco yearly for a Fine
for every such Lycence or if he or they keep ordinary in any
County within this Province twelve hundred pounds of To-
bacco, an give Bond for due Payment thereof. And it is
hereby furth^r Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and with
the advice and consent aforesaid That the clerk of each re-
spective County Court within this Province and the Clerk of
the Mayo^rs Court of the said Citty, shall Cause such Lycence
and the Fynes for granting such Lycences and the Security

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given for the Payment and Security thereof, to be duly Entred
upon Record in their Severall Courts and then Transmitt the
said Bonds to the Justice of the Provinciall Court for their
Majes^ts use for which said Lycences and Bonds such ordinary
keepers shall pay to such respective Clerks sixty pounds of
Tobacco and no more And be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid by and with the advice and consent afore-
said That the Commission^rs of the County Courts and the said
Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the said Citty be and they
are hereby Impowered & Authoriz'd at their severall County
Courts and Mayo^rs Court in the month of January and in the
month of August half yearly in every year during the Con-
tinuance of this Act having sumoned every respective Ordi-
nary keeper within their respective Countys and Citty then
and there to appear before them to sett and Assess the Rates
and prizes of all Liquors whatsoever (in this Act not hereafter
mencon'd) by them the said Ordinary keepers vended or to
be vended for the year ensuing, and so for every year during
the Continuance of this Act Which rates and prizes so to be
Sett assessed limitted and appointed by the Comission^rs afore-
said and by the Magistrates of the Citty aforesaid shall be by
their Severall and respective Clerks fairly Transcribed and
Sett up at their Severall and respective County Courts and
Citty aforesaid, in some publick place or places there, That

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