Acts. 245

Offence shall be Comitted the respective sumes herein after
mentioned that is to say the first oath or Curse two shil and
six pence and for Every Oath or Curse after the first five
shillings Currt mony.

And itt is hereby Further Enacted that upon Neglect or
refusall of Payment of the said fforfeiture in mony or Goods
to the Vallue thereof any Magistrate the Commissary Gen^ll
Secretary provinciall or County Clerk sher Coroner Constable
or the Minister of a Parish any Vestrymen or Church warden
shall and are hereby Authorized and required to Committ the
said Offender to the Stocks for the Space of one hour for
Every Oath or Curse not Exceeding three hours att any one
time of Conviction or punishment or order him her or them
punishment by whipping not Exceeding five Lashes for any
one oath or Curse nor thirty nine att any one time of Con-
viction or punishmt And if occasion be to call or Command
assistance in the executing the same in the same Manner as
any Sher. or Constable might or ought to doe in other Cases
of Contemning his Majesties process or Authority and in Case
such punishment shall be awarded by any the psons afd Except
the Sher. or Constable afd it shall and may be Lawfull for such
person to appoint any pson (who shall not be in Authority or
have any Just Exemption) as a Constable on such speciall

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Ocasion to Execute such punishment on the Offender in Case
the Sher of the County or Constable of the hundred be Ab-
sent from the place where such punishment shall be Awarded
And that the person soe Especially to be Appointed or Com-
manded to Execute such punishment that shall refuse or Delay
to Execute the same shall fforfeit to his Majesty his heirs and
Successors the sume of ten Shillings Curr^t mony to the use
afd to be Levyed as the Justices of the County Court where
such Contempt shall happen shall order and Direct but in
Case the Offence of prophane Curseing and Swearing shall
be Committed by any person or persons under the Age of
Sixteen years whereof they shall be Convict as afd who shall
not forthwith pay the fforfeitures afd then he she or they shall
by Warrt from any the persons afd if such Offence be Com-
mitted in their prsence or from Any Justice of peace or Other
Magistrate if the Conviction be by Oath or Confession before
them be whipped by the Constable or Other pson Especially
to be Appointed as afd or by the parent Guardian or Master
of such Offender in the presence of such Magistrate Constable
or other pson as afd
Provided such whipping Exceed not what is above Directed
for any one Offence or at any one time of punishment

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And be itt further Enacted that if any the Officers or per-
sons afd appointed as afd to Act ludicially in the putting this

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