Acts. 247

session of Assembly shall be drunk and of the same offence
of Drunkenness shall be Convict shall fforfeit and pay the
sume of five shillings Current money for Every such Offence
or on Neglecting to make Immediate payment thereof by
mony or goods to the Val. shall be sett in the Stocks there to
remaine for the space of two hours in Lieu thereof and that
the Sev^ll Magistrates and others aforementioned to put this
Act in Execution against such as shall be Accused or Convict
of prophane Curseing and Swearing shall proceed in the same
Manner against such as shall be Accused or Convicted of
Drunkenness as they are herein before directed to proceed
against those that shall be Accused or Convicted of prophane
Cursing and Swearing and shall in all things relateing to the
punishment of Drunkenness have the same power Authorities
and Advantages as are to them herein before given against
prophane Cursers or Swearers and shall be lyable to the same
fforfeitures and to the same manner of Conviction in Case of
Drunkenness in themselves or Omitting to punish itt in others
as herein before directed in Case of Curseing and Swearing

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all which fforfeitures or penalties relating to drunkenness
shall be Collected Levyed and Inflicted after the same Manner
and Applyed to the same uses as before directed in the Case
of Prophane Curseing and Swearing.

And be itt further Enacted that this Act shall be publickly
Read four times in the year in all parish Churches and all
publick Chappells by the Rector Vicar Curate or reader of
the respective parishes or Chappells Imediately after Morning
prayer on four Sev^ll Sundays that is to say on some one Sun-
day in June in September in December and in March under
the paine of one thousand pounds of Tob^o for Every such
Neglect or Omission the one halfe to his Majesty his heirs and
successors towards Defraying the Charge of such parish
where such Omission shall be made the other to the Informer
or him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered in
the Coty Court where the same shall rise by Action of Debt
bill plaint or Information wherein no Essoyne protection or
wager of Law shall be Allowed.

And be itt further Enacted that the severall Officers and
Others in this Act mention'd who shall receive any the fines
or fforfeitures afd shall yearly Account for and pay the same

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to the respective Vestry and County Courts att the time of
their laying the County Levy to his Majesty his heirs and
successors for the Uses afd on pain of fforfeiting double the
sume soe by such Officer or pson received and not Accounted
for and paid as afd to be Levyed as the Justices of such
County Court shall Direct.

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