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

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

shall do the contrary, the one Moiety to Our Soveraign Lord
and Lady the King and Queen their Heirs & Success^rs for the
support of Government the other Moiety to the Party or
Parties that shall inform or sue for the same, by Action of
debt bill plaint or Information, wherein no Essoyn Protection
or Wager of Law to be allowed Provided also that if any
Fees accrew for Matter or thing hereafter to be done belong-
ing to the said Office of Clerk in the County Courts as afore-
said and which they are not bound to do Ex Officio, and by
the Justices of the County Courts adjudged and allowed to be

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done and not in this Act limitted menconed and allowed them,
It shall and may be lawfull for them the said Clerks to have
and receive such Fees as the Justices shall allow and think fitt
according to the Proporcons aforesaid and no more under the
penalty afores^d to be recovered as aforesaid, this Act to Con-
tinue for three years or the end of the next Generall Assembly
which shall first happen
June 4^th 1692 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.

An Act for Amerciaments in the
Provinciall and County Courts.

Whereas many suits are raised upon frivolous occations by
Litigious persons, for prevention whereof for the future Be it
Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties
by and with the advice and consent of this present Generall
Assembly and the Authority of the same, That all Persons
whatsoever that are cast in any Cause be they plantiff or
defendat, shall be Amerced besides the damages & Costs to
the Recoverers fifty pounds of Tobacco in the Provinciall
Court And in the County Courts thirty pounds of Tobacco for

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the due collecting thereof. Be it Enacted by the Authority
afores^d That the Clerk of the Provinciall Court and the severall
County Courts keep an Exact Account of the Amerciam^ts and
deliver or send the same to the Severall Sherriffs of the par-
ticular Counties, who are hereby required to Collect the same
with the Leavy and are Accordingly Impowered for default of
payment to make distress and Commanded not to return any
Arrears (Executors and Administra- who cannot pay without
orders alwayes Excepted) And be it further Enacted that the
Clerk of the respective Courts give unto the Cheif Judge of
every Court a List of the Amerciaments that Court imposed,