Acts. 115

hand of an Attorny practising in the said Court or Courts to Justi-
fye the same the said Clerk or Clerks so offending shall be Lyable
to the same forfeitures & penalties of Attornys so offending; and
the said Forfeitures to be recovered & go to the use as aforesaid.
And Be It further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the
Attorny Generall of this Province shall not recover nor receive any
Fee, for any Navigation Bond putt in suite either where the Certifi-
cate was before the suite of the said Bond Lodged in the Secretarys
Office of this province, or where it can be proved that he knew there
was such Certificate returned, neither shall the said Attorny Generall
receive or have any Fee for any bond taken for County dues where
the said bond appeares not to be forfeited which was the true intent
& meaning of the said Ordinance of Assembly. And if the said
Attorny General after the end of this session of Assembly shall sue
any Bond taken contrary to act of parliament or any bond taken for
County dues, and no bills of Exchange appearing protested nor no
other Failure to forfeite the said bond or where the Certificate is
returned unto the secretaryes or the Office appointed for keeping the
same any of which Causes appearing to the provinciall Court the said
Attorney Generall shall not only Loose his Fee, but pay the hon^ble
secretary Fees and what other charge the party hath been out in
defending the same to be adjudged by the provinciall Court &
whereas Severall Persons have been sued in his Ma^tys name for a
certaine sume without ever mentioning for what the said bond was
taken so that the said persons doth not know what Course to take,
or to whome to apply themselves to. Therefore Be It Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid That when any Writt is Issued forth upon a
Bond taken in his Ma^ties Name It shall be Endorsed on the back side
as Followeth. If a Navigation Bond, for whom the Person was
bound for & in what Yeare. if a Sherriffs Bond, at whose request &
prayer It was sued or bond taken in any of his Ma^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
grieved shall Recover his Cost against the Attorney that sued for the
said Writt. And Be It further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that upon any Presentment of the Grand Jury upon the breach of any
of the Penall Laws of this Province save that for suppressing of
Criminalls & trying on them in the County Courts if the party pre-
sented confesses his crime & submitts to the Court the Clerk of
Indictments shall have no Fee for the same, but if the party traverse
& puts himselfe upon a Jury then the said Clerk to have 200^lbs
Tobacco Fee: and that upon a Presentment Grounded upon the
Law for suppressing Criminalls or upon any Statute of England If
Bill be found by the Grand Jury the Clerk of the Indictments shall
have 200^lbs Tobaccoe Fee. And the Clerk of the Indictments shall
have two hundred pounds of Tobacco Fee; and that upon Present-
ment found in the Provinciall Court the Attornev Generall to have

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