Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 503

Attorney Practicing in the said Courts shall issue forth any
Surnons or other Process ag^t any Person or Persons for any
Criminall Matter or Misdemeanor without Presentment be
found first by the Grand Iury against the said Person or
psons or Speciall Order of Court Appearing upon Record to
Justify the same the said Clerk of Indictments or other Attor-
ney so offending shall forfeitt and pay for such his Offence
the Sume of Two thousand five hundred pounds of Tobbacco
the one halfe to his Ma^ty towards the defraying the County
Leavy the other halfe to the Party Grived or to him or them
that shall informe or sue for the same to be recovered in any
Court of this Province wherein noe Essoyne or Protection
shall be allowed neither shall the party so offending have any
Appeale or Writt of Error but the Iudgment of the County
Court shall be definitive therein and if the Clerk of the Pro-
vinciall Court of this Province or any of the Clerks of the
County Courts of this Province shall issue out Surnons or
other Process in Criminall Causes without an Order for the
Same under the hand of an Attorney Practiceing in the said
Court or Courts to Justifye the same the said Clerk or Clerks
so offending shall be lyable to the Same forfeitures and pen-
altys of Attorneys so Offending and the said forfeitures to be
recovered and to go to the use as af^d And be it further En-
acted by the Authority aforesaid that the Attorney Generall
of this Province shall not recover nor receive any ffee for any
Navigation Bond put in Suite either where the Certificate was

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before the Suite of the said Bonds lodged in the Secretarys
Office of this Province or where it can be proved that he knew
there was Such Certificate returned neither shall the Said
Attorney Generall receive or have any ffee for any Bond taken
for Country dues where the said Bond appears not to be for-
feited which was the true Intent and meaning of the said
Ordinance of Assembly and if the said Attorney Generall
after the End of this Sessions of Assembly shall sue any Bond
taken Contrary to Act of Parliament or any Bond taken for
Country dues and no Bills of Exchange Appearing Protested
nor no other failure to forfeitt the said Bond or where the said
Certificate is returned into the Secretarys Office appointed for
keeping the Same any of which Cases appearing to the Pro-
vinciall Court the said Attorney Generall shall not onely loose
his ffee but pay the hon^ble Secrys ffees and what other Charge
the party hath been out in defending the Same to be adjudged
by the Provinciall Court and whereas Severall psons have
been sued in his Matys name for a Certein Surhe without ever
mentioning for what the said Bond was taken So that the said
Persons do not know w' Courses to take or whome to Applye
themselves to therefore Be it Enacted by the Authority af^d

p. 244