Acts. 335

altys of Attorneys soe offending and the said forfeitures to
be recovered as aforesaid and go to the use aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that

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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 before the suite of the said Lands
lodged in the Secretarys office of this Province or where it
cann be prov'd that he knew there was such Certificate
return'd neither shall the said Attorney Generall Receive or
have any ffee for any bond for Countrey dues where the said
bond appears not to be forfeited 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 noe bills of Exchange appearing
protested nor noe other ffailure to forfeit the said bond, or
where the said Certificate is returned into the said Secretarys
Office appointed for keeping the same any of which Cases
appearing to the Provinciall Court the said Attorney Gen-
erall shall not only loose his ffees but pay the Secretarys ffees
and what other Charges the party hath been at in defending
the same to be adjudged by the Provinciall Court.
And whereas severall persons have been sued in her Ma-
jestys Name for a Certain sume without ever mentioning for
what the said bond was taken so that the persons do not
know what Courses to take or who to apply y^rselves to.
Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that when any
Writt is issued forth upon a Navigation Bond taken in her
Majestys Name it shall be endorsed on the backside as follow-
eth (for whom the person was bound and in what year if a
Sheriffs Bond) at whose request and prayer it was sued or
bond taken in any of her Maj^tys Offices in this province it
shall be endorsed at whose request it was sued, and for want
of such Endorsement the writt shall Abate, and the party
Greived shall recover his Costs against the Attorny that sued
forth the said Writt.
And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid that whensoever the Grand
Jury in their respective County Courts of this Province shall
make a Presentment of the breach of any the Laws of this
province save only the Act for speedy tryall of Criminalls
and ascertaining their punishment in the County Courts when
prosecuted there if the party or partys presented Confess
his or their Crime and Submitt to the Court then the Clerk
of the Indictments shall have one hundred pounds of Tobacco
for his ffee and no more But if the Clerk of Indictments
draws a Bill of Indictment upon the said presentment or the
party traverses such presentment or Bill of Indictment and

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