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recovered on any such Breach as abovesaid, in case of Recov-
ery; and in case of Non-suit, the Costs to be adjudged against
the Prosecutor as aforesaid, and the Prosecutor's Name to be
endorsed on the Back of the first Process as aforesaid. And
also such Bond to be put in Suit by the Order of such County
Court, often as it shall be found necessary for the Indemnity
of the County.
VII. Provided, That neither the Public, nor any County,
shall be burthened with any Costs of Non-suit, where they
shall happen to be Prosecutors.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act.
Reverdy Ghiselin
Thomas Bacon
An Act for transferring the Payment of all such Fines and
Forfeitures, as shall hereafter arise or happen upon the
Breach of any the Penal Laws of this Province, to the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietor.
Whereas his most gracious Majesty King George, has been
pleased to restore to the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor of this Province, the Government thereof, whereby all
the Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures that shall hereafter hap-
pen, and are by the several Acts of Assembly of this Province
now in Force, made payable to our Sovereign Lord the King,
his Heirs or Successors, ought to be made payable to the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor of this Province, And
whereas the said Laws have all lately been Re-enacted and
Revised with great Care, and at the vast Expence of this
Province, and are found to be beneficial, and much conducing
to the Peace and Welfare thereof; to the End that all unnec-
essary Charges may be avoided, it is humbly prayed that it
may be Enacted,
II. And be it Enacted, by his Lordship the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,
and by the Authority of the same, That where by any the
Laws of this Province, any Fines, Penalties or Forfeitures are
made payable to, or recoverable by the King's Majesty, or in
his Name, to any the Uses in the same Laws expressed, all
such Fines, Forfeitures, or Penalties, shall henceforward be
payable to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this
Province, his Heirs and Successors, and be recoverable by
him or them, or in his or their Name, to the same Uses as by
those Laws are express'd; any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom
to the contrary notwithstanding.
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