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in the County Court where such Offence shall be committed, by
Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or
Wager of Law, to be allowed.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That no
Person or Persons, inhabiting within this Province, not having law-
ful Licence, shall sell by Retail, unless sold at the common and usual
Rates of such Liquors between Merchants and others, any Cyder,
Quince-Drink or other strong Liquors, to be drank in his, her, or
their Houses, or about his, her, or their Plantation; upon the For-
feiture of every Time he, she, or they, shall be legally convict thereof,
the Sum of Five Pounds, Current Money; One Half thereof to His
Lordship, His Heirs, and Successors, for the Use aforesaid; and
the other Half to the Informer, or to him or them that shall sue for
the same: To be recovered as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all
licens'd Ordinary-keepers shall be provided with, and sell by sealed
Measures, all Liquors, (except such as shall come into the Province
in Bottles :) And that any Ordinary-keeper who shall neglect to pro-
vide and always keep a Gallon, Pottle, Quart, Pint and Half-Pint,
or any, of them, sealed Measures, shall forfeit and pay Five Pounds
Current Money, to the Uses aforesaid; to be recovered in the County
Court where the Ordinary-keeper offending resides, by Action of
Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoyn, Protection,
or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
And whereas it hath been found prejudicial to the Inhabitants of
this Province, that Ordinary-keepers, and Inn-holders, have fre-
quently entertained divers loose, idle and disorderly Persons, a great
Time tippling at their Houses, as well to the great Damage of many
Persons, as their own Ruin :
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any
such Ordinary-keeper or Inn-holder, to keep such Ordinary, or
House of Entertainment, until he or she give good and sufficient
Security, by Bond or Recognizance, to the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary, His Heirs and Successors, in Forty Pounds Cur-
rent Money, before the Justices of the County Courts where any
Ordinary shall be kept, to keep good Rules and Orders; and not
to suffer idle, loose, or disorderly Persons to tipple, game, or com-
mit other Disorders, or Irregularities, in such Ordinary, contrary
to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act.
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