Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692. 501

An Act concerning what shall be
allowed to the Grand Jurys that are
sufnoned out of the body of this Province
to attend Provinciall Courts.

Forasmuch as the Laws of this Province have not as yet
provided for the Satisfaction of those persons that are sum-
moned as Jurors out of the body of this Province to attend
Provinciall Courts Be it Enacted by the King and Queens
most Excellent Majes^ts by and with the advice & consent of
this present Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same,
That those Persons that are Sumon'd upon the Grand Jurys
out of the body of this Province shall from henceforth be
allowed for every Court that they shall so attend as Jurors,
two thousand five hundred pounds of Tobacco for their
Expences and noe more, and that every County Leavy five
hundred pounds of Tobacco yearly to be paid to the Ordinary
keepers att S^t Maries that entertains them.
June 4^th June the 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board. The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r have Assented.
John Llewellin Clk. Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk:

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

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An Act concerning those Servants that
have Bastards.

Whereas divers women Servants within this Province not
having husbands living with them have been gotten with
child in the time of their Servitude to the great dishonour of
God and apparent damage of Masters or owners of such Ser-
vants, for remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the King and
Queens most Excellent Majesties by and with the advice and
Consent of this Present Gen^ll Assembly and the Authority of
the same that every such mother of a Bastard Child not able
Sufficiently to prove the pty charged to be the begetter of
such Child, in every such Case the Mother of such Child shall
shall only be lyable to satisfy the damage so susteined by
Servitude or otherwise as the Court before whom such Matter
is brought shall see Convenient Provided that where the
Mother of any such child as aforesaid shall be able to prove
the charge by Sufficient Testimony of Witnesses Confession
of the party Charged or pregnant circumstances agreeing with
her declaration in her Extremity of her pains or throes of
Travell and her Oath taken by some Magistrate before the
time of her delivery of such Bastard Child and not after her
delivery then the party Charged if a Servant to Satisfy half

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