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and impowered, at their several County Courts, in the Month of
August, Yearly, or oftener, as they shall think fit, having summoned
each respective Ordinary-keeper, within their respective County;
then and there to set and assess the Rates and Prices of .all Liquors
and other Accomodations whatsoever in Current Money of this Prov-
ince, by them the said Ordinary-keepers to be vended for the Year
ensuing, and so Yearly and every Year; which Rates and Prices of
all Liquors, so to be set and assessed, limitted and appointed by the
Justices aforesaid, shall be by their several and respective Clerks
transcribed and set up at the several and respective County Courts,
in some publick Places there, that every Person or Persons may
peruse the same; the Copy of which Table of Prices of Liquors and
Accomodations, every Ordinary-keeper within each County, is here-
by obliged to keep set up in the most publick and convenient Place of
their Houses, for the Perusal of all Persons that receive any Ordin-
ary Accomodations, under the Penalty of Five Pounds Current
Money, to His Lordship, His Heirs and Successors, for the Support
of Government: To be sued for, on Non- Payment thereof, in His
Lordship's Name, by Bill, Plaint, or Information; or upon the Pre-
sentments of any Grand Jury, without the Formality of any Indict-
ment: For which Summons, and Table of Prices, every Ordinary-
keeper shall pay to such Clerk, the Sum of Two Shillings like Money,
and no more. And every Ordinary-keeper, or Inn-holder, that shall,
after the setting up and assessing the Rates and Prices aforesaid,
directly or indirectly, take, exact, demand, or receive, for the Price,
and Pay, for any such Liquors, or other Accomodations, for which
the Rates and Prices shall be assessed and set as aforesaid, of any
Person or Persons whatsoever, above the Rates and Prices so set and
Assessed as aforesaid, shall, for every such Account, sued for, taken
or received, forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Shillings, Current
Money: One Half thereof to His Lordship, His Heirs and Suc-
cessors, to be applied for the Use aforesaid; and the other Half to
him or them that shall inform or sue for the same; and lose every
such Debtor's Account, sued for, taken, or received, so unjustly,
charged, exacted, or demanded; the said Forfeiture to be recovered
before any Magistrate of the County, where the Offence shall be
committed, as in Case of small Debts. And be it Enacted, by the
Authority aforesaid, That the Party grieved, shall be deemed a
legal Witness, (being under no Incapacity of being a Witness in
other Cases,) to prove any Exaction or Extortion, contrary to this
Act.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That every
Ordinary-keeper, or Inn-holder, so to be licensed as aforesaid, shall,
within Six Months after granting their respective Licences, be
hereby obliged to provide and maintain, if they keep Ordinary at the
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