Acts. 15

Mayor Recorder nor Alderman of the said City of St. Maryes any
thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding
And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that any
Ordinary Keeper keeping Evill Rule or Order in his house and
suffering extraordinary drinking and quarrelling in his house upon
Complaint thereof made to the Justices of the County Courts of such
Ordinary Keepers misbehaviour of himself or keeping Evill Rule
in his house The said Justices of the said County Courts may and
are hereby authorized and Impowred to Suppress such Ordinary
and call in such Lycence And be it further Enacted that if any
Ordinary Keeper disabled and suppressed as aforesaid or any other
person that shall presume to keep Ordinary without Lycence first
had and obteyned shall for every month he or they shall keep
Ordinary as aforesaid forfeite and pay Ten Thousand pounds of
Tobaccoe one halfe to their Ma^tys the other to him or them that shall
sue for the same to be recovered in any Court of Record in this
Province by Bill Plaint or Informacon wherein no Essoyne proteccon
or Wager of Law to be allowed. And it is hereby Enacted by and
with the advice and consent aforesaid that the Justices of the Provin-
ciall Court and the Comiss^rs of the sev^rall & respective County Courts
shall give this Act in Charge to the severall Grand Juryes, as also the
Severall Comiss^rs of the respective Courts and the Magistrates of
the said City to their severall & respective Constables to enquire into
the Breach of this Act and into all disorders comitted in the said

Ordinaryes and present the same (if any be) to the said severall

Courts there to be examined and punished according to Law. And
be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and with the
advice and consent aforesaid that no person whatsoever so Lycenced
to keep Ordinary as aforesaid shall refuse to Creditt any person
whatsoever being capable of Giving his Vote for the Eleccon of
Burgesses in any County within this Province for the vallue of Four
hundred pounds of Tobaccoe p Annum for any Accommodacons
by him vended whereof any such person so Capacitated as aforesaid
shall have occation of or require to be accomodated with under the
penalty and forfeiture of Four hundred pounds of Tobaccoe to be paid
by such Ordinary Keeper soe refusing to Creditt such person as
aforesaid one Moyety thereof to their Ma^tys the other to the Vestry
of the Parish where such Ordinary shall be kept. This Act to
endure for three years or to the end of the next Sessions of Assembly
which shall first happen.

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

An Act Prohibiting the Inhabitants of this Province or any others
from carrying Liquors to the Indian Towns & Cabbins.

Be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Ma^tys by
and with the Advice and Consent of this present Gen^rall Assembly
and the Authority of the same that from and after the Publication

Acts of 1694,
ch. 22
(Continued
by 1695,
chs. 16 and
26)