Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 527

Demand Sue for leavy Recover & receive all other Such Debts
and Arrears due as af^d upon and by Virtue of the said Act for
raising a Supply &c. Any Act or Statute of Limittation to
the Contrary Notwithstanding which are not by this Act or any
other Act this Sessions Transferred or sett over as aforesaid
and to be Accomptable for the Same to the generall Assembly
of this Province as by the af^d Act was Provided

Lib. L. L.

An Act for Payment of ffees due from Criminall Persons

Whereas Diverse Complaints have been Made by Severall
Countys of this Province Occasioned for that they have been
forced to pay the ffees of Imprisonment Criminalls the persons
by whom Such ffees ought heretofore to have been paid or
hereafter to be paid being released and going free to the
great Encouragment of Offenders for prevention whereof 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 hence
forward no Person Sherriffe Goaler Clerk or Cryer shall
Charge either their Own County to which they belong or the
Publick with any ffees for any Criminall Comitted to the
Charge of the said Sherriffe or Goaler haveing Sufficient
Estate in this Province wherewith to pay the Same or being
Capable to pay the Same by Servitude but that Such Crimi-
nalls being discharged by Order and due Course of Law shall
pay his Own ffees to Sherriffe Goaler Clerk and Cryer accord-
ing to Act of Assembly either out of his Estate or by Servi-
tude or otherwise, Provided allways that this Act shall not
Extend to Malefactors that are Executed or to Such other
Persons who are banished haveing no Estate in this Province
or Servants Criminalls for whom the County shall pay the
ffees due to the Sherriffe, Clerk, Goaler, Cryer, and other
Officers of Such Court where such Criminall shall be Con-
victed. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that all Officers ffees due from Criminall Servants shall be
paid by the County where the fact shall be Comitted and that
all and every such Criminall Serv' for whom the County shall

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pay the ffees due to Such Officers as aforesaid shall after the
End and Expiration of his time of Servitude due to his Master
Satisfy unto the Comissioners of the County who paid such
his ffees for him to the Sherriffe and other Officers as afore-
said for the use of Such County such Sums as they have paid
as aforesaid and the Severall Com^rs of the Severall Countys
shall and are hereby Impowered to make Inquisition after all
such Servants Criminalls for whom the County hath defrayed

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