116 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
Acts of
March,
1697/8,
ch. 8

four hundred pounds of Tobacco fee This Act to Endure for three
yeares or the end of the next Session of Assembly which shall first
happen.

An Act for Securing the parochiall Librarys of this Province & that
the Care & Charge thereof be committed to some Worthy &
Learned Person.

Be It Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Ma^ty by & with the
advice & consent of this present Generall Assembly & the Authority
of the same; That the Library appointed for the severall & respective
parishes within this Province shall be & remaine in the hands & pos-
session of the Minister of the parish: If any Minister be presented
appointed or Inducted to the said parish during his residence in the
parish aforesaid, who is & shall be obliged to keep & preserve the said
Librarys from Waste or Embezelment and be accomptable for the
same to the Gov^r & Councill & Vestry as often as required and to that
[sic] for the same as above directed, and shall in all points be answer-
able for the same Except by Fire, or such like Accident as aforesaid
and for the better preserving & securing the said Librarys The
Learned Worthy Doctor Thomas Bray is hereby appointed Chiefe
Visitor of all & every the Librarys within the said Province, And
be It Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that one Act of
Assembly made at a Generall Assembly held at the Port of An-
napolis the 16^th day of 7^ber One thousand Six hundred Ninety &
six Be & is hereby repealed & made void and of no Effect.

Acts of
March,
1697/8,
ch. 9

A Supplementary Act for Ordinary Keepers and Regulating the
Number thereof.

Whereas by a former Act of Assembly Entituled an Act for Or-
dinary Keepers & Regulating the number thereof It is Enacted that
all Ordinary Keepers within this Province which kept Ordineryes at
any County Court house should be provided with Twelve spare Beds,
and Stabling & provender for 20 horses and that such which kept
Ordinarys at other remoter parts should be provided with 6 spare
beds &^ca Since which Act it hath been grievously complained of by
divers of the Inhabitants of this Province that through the great
Concourse of Travelling Persons they have been very much Op-
pressed & neer some of their utter ruines because their Ability hath
been such that they could not provide themselves according to the
said Act of Assembly for keeping Ordinaryes for the remedy of
which It is prayed that It may be Enacted And Be it Enacted by
the Kings most Excellent Majesty by & with the advice & consent
of this present Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same
That from & after the publication hereof It shall & may be Lawfull
for any Person within this Province to Keep an Ordinary or house
of Entertainment in any such place or places as to the Justices of