268 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

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Secretarys Office within two months after the takeing thereof
in Default Whereof the Commissioners of any County Court
takeing such bond and not Causeing the same to be soe trans-
mitted within the time afd shall forfeit to his Majesty his heirs
and Successors fifteen hundred pounds of Tob^o the one halfe
whereof shall be applyed to the support of Government and
the other to the Informer or such person as will sue for the
same to be recovered in the Provinciall Court of this province
wherein no Essoyne protection or wager of Law shall be

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Allowed and the said Secretary and his Chiefe Clerk of the
Provinciall Court shall be Obliged att the next Councill after
receiving any sher bond or bonds into the Secretaries Office
to lay the same before his Excellency the Governour of this
Province for the time being for his Approbation or Disallow-
ance of the Securitys taken by the County Courts and the
said Commissioners are hereby required and Enjoyned to take
new Security yearly and Every year of such Shers soe long
as they shall Continue in the said Office and transmitt the
same as afd having a Speciall regard not to admitt any person
to be Security as afd but such as are good and Substantiall
ffreeholders within their Countys and alsoe to make the
Obligation of such bond soe to be taken from any Sher
Answerable to the Publick Charge of their respective Counties
which penalty shall not be less then two hundred thousand
pounds of Tob^o as afd

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And for the Encouragement of such psons now bearing or
that shall hereafter bear the Office of Sher. and who shall
punctually Comply with the Publick Credittors, It is also
hereby further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
afd that itt shall and may be Lawfull for his Majesties Govern'
for the time being where no Just Complaint is made against
such Shers to Continue and make good their Commission for
the time and terme of three years Successively but no Longer.
And be itt further Enacted by and with the Advice and
Consent afd that if any high Sher or high Shers being indebted
to any person or psons shall refuse to discount or Allow the
same out of any Publick or County Levy due from such
person or persons but will notwithstanding the said Debt
being due from the Sher take the body or Goods of such
person in Execution [he] shall be Lyable to be prosecuted in an
Action of Tresspass or false Imprisonment as the Case shall
require.
And be itt further Enacted that the high Sher of Every
respective County shall be Lyable to bee sued as afd for his
own or any of his Deputys Offence or Offences against this
Act and the Debts mentioned which the Sherriffe may owe to