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any Bond for performance of any Coven^t or for the Performance
or Sufferance of any Act or Acts Thing or Things whatsoever,
Although the reall damages or Sume recovered by such Accon of
Coven^t be Jesse then Twenty pounds Stert or Five Thousand pounds
of Tobacco, And soe As the penalty of such Bond for the performance
of Coven^ts or performance or Sufferance of any other Matter or
Thing whatsoever Exceed Twenty pounds in Money or Five Thou-
sand pounds of Tobacco, But noe Bond for payment or performance
of any Bill of Exchange shall be prosecuted in any Court but the
County Court unlesse the Originall or principall menconed in such
Bill of Exchange and due on the same protested shall amount to
Twenty pounds Sterr Any thing in this Act or any other Statute Law

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use or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid That from and after the End of this p^rsent Session of
Assembly if the drawer or Endorser of any Bill of Exchange shall
be sued or prosecuted in any Court of this Province for any sume
of Money due upon any protested Bill of Exchange, the Attorneys
prosecuting or defending any Accon thereupon shall not Exact
demand Receive or take any more then One lawfull Fee according to
the direccons of this Act for prosecuting or defending any Accon
upon any One protested Bill notwithstanding there be Two or more
Endorsers and the drawer sued and prosecuted. And that it shall
and may be lawfull To and for the Plantiffs in any Accon to be
brought on any protested Bill to put into any One Writt Two or
more def^ts resideing in One County if Occasion shall require And
shall not pay for the same any other Fee or Reward than for One
Writt And Shall and may At his Eleccon declare against such def^ts
in One or more declaracons As he shall think fitt Any Law Statute
Usage or Custome to the Contrary notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull To and for the def^t in
any Writt Issued or to be Issued out of the Provinciall Court after
Arrest and Bayle given To the sherriffe for his Appearance and
before the Returne of such Writts to goe before the President or
any Two Justices of the County Court where such defend^t shall be
Arrested with Two Sufficient Freeholders of this Province such As
the Justice or Justices before whom such defend shall goe shall
approve of And then and there give speciall Bayle to any Accon by
Vertue of such Writt. which Bayle soe taken shall be delivered to the
Sherriffe of such County where the same is taken to be by him
returned with such Writt to the Provinciall Court, And the s^d
Bayle soe Taken and returned to the Provinciall Court with such
Writt shall be As sufficient As if taken before the Presid^t of the
County Court after the Returne of the Writt and Appearance En-
tered according to the direccons of the Act of Assembly for Takeing
special Baile in the County, nor shall such defend^t be Obliged to

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