Acts. 13

Act to endure for Three years or to the end of the next Generall
Assembly or which shall first happen.

An Act for Regulating Ordinaryes and Lymitting the Number of
them within this Province.
For the better Regulating Ordinary Keepers and Inholders within
this Province for the future Be it enacted by the King & Queens
most Excellent Ma^tys by and with the Advice & Consent of this present
Generall Assembly and the authority of the same that from and after
the Publicacon hereof the Comissioners of each County Court and the
Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of the City of St. Mary's at the
Mayor's Court be and are hereby authorized from tyme to tyme
and as often as need shall require to grant Lycences to such person
or persons as they shall think fitt to be Ordinary Keepers and In-
holders for the keeping of Ordinaryes and houses of Entertainment
for so long tyme and in such & so many places within their severall &
respective Countyes and City aforesaid for the Ease & Conveniency
of the Inhabitants Travellers and Strangers as to them respectively
shall seem meet for which said Lycences the said persons that shall
be so Lycenced to keep Ordinary shall att the tyme of his or their
taking of such Lycense or Lycenses be bound and obliged to pay to
the Secretary of this Province for the tyme being, if he or they keep
Ordinary within the Citty of St. Mary's or within two miles thereof
two Thousand pounds of Tobaccoe yearly for a Fyne for every such
Lycence or if he or they keep ordinary within any County in this
Province twelve hundred pounds of Tobaccoe and give Bond for
due payment thereof. And it is hereby Enacted by the authority
aforesaid that the Clerke of each respective County Court within this
Province, and the Clerke of the Mayors Court of the said City of
St. Mary's shall cause such Lycence & the Fynes for granting such
Lycences, and the Securety given for payment & performance thereof
to be duly Entred upon Record in their severall Courts and then
Transmitt the said Bonds to the Justices of the Provintiall Courts for
their Ma^tys use, for which said Lycences and Bonds the said Ordinary
Keepers shall pay to such respective Clerke sixty pounds of Tobaccoe
and no more. And be it further Enacted that the Commiss^rs of the
County Courts and the said Mayor Recorder and Aldermen of
the said City be and are hereby further impowred and authorized
at their severall County Courts and Mayors Courts in the Month of
January & in the Month of August halfe yearly in every year during
the continuance of this Act having Summoned every respective
Ordinary Keeper within their respective Countyes and City then and
there to appeare before them then & there to assess the Rates and
Prizes of all Liquors whatsoever (in this Act not hereafter men-
coned) by them the said Ordinary Keepers vended or to be vended
for the yeare ensuing and so for every yeare during the Continuance
of this Act, Which Rates and Prizes so to be sett assessed lymitted

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
Acts of 1694,
ch. 21