520 Assembly Proceedings June 29-July 22, 1699.

Lib. L. L.

most publick place of their house or houses for the perusall of
all Persons that receive any Ordinary Accomodations from
them under the Penalty of one Thousand p^ds of Tobbacco to
be applyed to the use of the County where such Ordinary
keeper shall live to be sued for in Case of Non payment
thereof in his Matys name for which Sums and Table of prizes

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every Ordinary keeper shall pay to such Clerk the Sume of
fourty pounds of Tobbacco and no more and any Ordinary
Keeper and Inholder that shall after the Sitting and Assess-
ing the rates and Prizes aforesaid directly or indirectly take
Exact Demand or receive for the prise and pay of any Such
Liquors for which the Rates and Prizes shall be sett & Assest
as af^d of any person or persons whatsoever above the rates
and Prizes So Assest as af^d shall for every Such Offence for-
feitt and pay the Sume of five hundred pounds of Tobbacco
one halfe thereof to his Ma^ty his heires & Successors for the
use of the County and the other halfe to him or them that
shall Inform and Sue for the Same and loose and loose every
Debt so unjustly Charged Exacted and demanded the Said
forfeitures to be recovered in any Court of Record within this
Province wherein no Essoyne Protection or Wager of Law to
be Allowed. And every Ordinary keeper that Shall Exact
demand or receive above the Sume of ten pound of Tobbacco
p Gallon for Small Beer Twenty pounds of Tobbacco p Gallon
for Strong Beer for a Nights lodging in a bed four pounds of
Tobbacco for a peck of Shell'd Indian Corn or Oats for a
horse twelve pounds of Tobbacco for a pasturage for a horse
p night Six pounds of Tobbaco for hay or Straw for a horse
p night ten pounds of Tobbacco shall also pay and forfeitt for
every Such Offence the Sume of five hundred pounds of Tob-
bacco one halfe thereof to his said Ma^ty his heires and Suc-
cessors for the use of the County and the other halfe to him
or them that shall Informe or Sue for the Same to be recovered

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as aforesaid and loose every such Debt so unjustly Charged
as aforesaid and to the Intent that all Persons Inhabitants
Strangers and Travellers may be Certein of Good and Suffi-
cient Accomodations for themselves and their horses Be it
Enacted by the Authority af^d That every Ordinary keeper or
Inholder to be licenced as af^d shall within Six months after
Granting their respective licences be hereby obliged to provide
and Maintaine if the Said Ordinary be kept att the Court
house in the said County or the Porte and Town of An-
napolis & William Stadt twelve good and Substantiall Bedds
over and above what is for their Own familys use with Cover-
ing for the same together with Accomodation of Oats hay and
Straw for litter and Indian Corne with Stabling for Twenty
horses att least and if any Such Ordinary be kept att any