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

Lib. L. L.

Year and inspect the Same and in Case of any Damage or
Imbezlment thereof to require and Cause Satisfaction for the
Same to be made and in Case any Minister having the Charge
of Such Library shall be removed from his Charge he shall
deliver the Said Library to the Vestry of the Parish and make
Satisfaction or repairation if any Damage or Wast Suffered
before his Departure out of the Said Parish Except by fire or
Such unavoidable Accident or in Case of the Death of any
Such Minister haveing the Charge of Such Library the Vestry
of the Said parish shall Imediatly take the Said Library into
their Custody and keeping and Pass their receipts for the
Same as above directed and shall in all Points be Answerable

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for the Same Except by fire or Such like Accident as afore-
said, and for the better preserving and Secureing the said
Librarys the Learned and worthy Doctor Thomas Bray or his
Successor is hereby appointed Chief Visitor of all and every
the Said Librarys w^thin this Province And be it further
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that one Act of Assembly
made att a Generall Assembly held att the Porte of Annapolis
the Sixteenth day of September one Thousand Six hundred
Ninety Six Entituled an Act for Secureing the Parochiall
Librarys of this Province be and is hereby repealed and made
void and of noe Effect.

An Act for Regulating of Ordinarys and limitting the
Number of them within this Province.

For the better Regulating Ordinary Keepers and Inholders
within this Province for the future Be it Enacted by the Kings
most Excellent Maty, by and with the Advice and Consent of
this present Generall Assembly and the Authority of the Same
That from and after the publication hereof the Comiss^rs of
each respective County Court and the Mayor Recorder and
Aldermen of the City of St. Marys att the Mayors Court be
and are hereby Impowered and Authorized from time to time
as often as Need Shall require to grant Licences to Such
person and persons as they shall think fitt to be Ordinary
Keepers and Inholders for the keeping of Ordinarys and
houses of Enterteinm^t So long time as in Such and So many
places within theire Severall and respective Countys and City
af^d for the Ease and Conveniency of the Inhabitants Travellers

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and Strangers as to th^m respectively Shall seem meet for
which Licences the said psons that shall be so licenced to
keep Ordinarys Except all Such Persons as Shall keep Ordi-
nary or Ordinarys in the Porte of Annapolis in Ann Arundell
County shall att the time of his or their takeing of Such