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Court-house in any County, Four good and substantial Beds; or at
the City of Annapolis, aforesaid, Six good Beds; over and above
what is for their own Families Use, with sufficient warm Covering
for the same; Indian Corn, Oats, Hay, Straw, and Stabling for Ten
Horses at least: And if any Ordinary be kept at any other Place or
Part of the County, than at the Court-house, such Ordinary-keeper
shall, within the Time aforesaid, be provided with Two spare Beds
with convenient Covering, and sufficient Stabling and Provinder
for Six Horses at least; under the Penalty of Ten Pounds Current
Money: One half thereof to His Lordship, His Heirs, and Suc-
cessors, to be applied for the Use aforesaid; the other Half to him
or them that shall inform or sue for the same: To be recovered by
Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or
Wager of Law to be allowed.
Provided always, That no Person or Persons so licens'd; or to be
licens'd to keep Ordinary as aforesaid, shall, during the Time of such
their keeping Ordinary, be Delegates, Justices of the Peace, At-
torneys, Deputy-Commissaries, Clerks, Sheriffs, Deputy Sheriffs, or
Jury-Men; or hold any other Publick Office whatsoever, within this
Province.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Ordinary-keeper shall keep evil Rule in his House, upon Complaint
made thereof to the Justices of the County Court, of such Ordinary-
keeper's Misbehaviour, or keeping evil Rule in his House, the said
Justices of the County Courts, are hereby authorized and impowered,
to suppress such Ordinary-keeper, and call in such Licence.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That in
case any Ordinary-keeper shall keep an irregular or disorderly
House, or shall misbehave him, or herself, contrary to the Directions
of this Act, that it shall and may be lawful for any Two Justices of
the Peace of the County where such Ordinary shall be kept, (one of
them being of the Quorum,) upon Complaint, or upon their own
View, to suspend such Ordinary-keeper, until the next County Court ;
which County Court may hear and finally determine the Matter,
and either suffer such Ordinary-keeper to keep Ordinary longer, or
to suppress such Ordinary.
And be it likewise Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if
any Person so suspended, shall presume, during the Time of such
Suspension, to keep Ordinary, that in all such Cases, he or she shall
incur the same Penalty and Forfeiture, as Persons keeping Ordinary
without Licence are subject to by this Act.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any
Ordinary-keeper disabled, or suppress'd, as aforesaid, or any other
Person that shall presume to keep Ordinary without Licence first
had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, for every Month he or they shall
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