130 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

Session
Laws

during the Continuance of this Act, to be paid by the several Naval
Officers of this Province who shall Receive or Collect the same, to
the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid.
And for the more effectual and speedy Replacing and Repaying
of the said Sum into the Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for
Emitting Bills of Credit Established by Act of Assembly, Be it
further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That from and after the End of this Session of Assembly, the Jus-
tices of each County in Court sitting, be, and are hereby Impowered

County
Courts
power to
erant
Licences for
Ordinaries.

and Authorized, from Time to Time as often as need shall require,
to grant Licenses to such Person or Persons as they shall think fit,
beine Persons of good Repute, to be Ordinary-keepers and Innhold-
ers, for the Keeping of Ordinaries and Houses of Entertainment,
so long Time, and in such and so many Places within their several
and respective Counties, for the Ease and Conveniency of the Inhabi-
tants, Travellers and Strangers, as to them respectively shall seem
meet; for which Licences the said Persons that shall be so Licenced
to keep Ordinary as aforesaid, shall at the Time of his, her, or their,
taking such Licences, enter into Recognizance to his Lordship the
Lord Proprietary for the Payment of the several and respective Sums
following, (That is to say,) for every Licence to keep Ordinary in

Licences to
be paid for
p. 4

the City of Annapolis, the Sum of Five Pounds Current Money, and
for every Licence to keep Ordinary at any other Place within this
Province, the Sum of Fifty Shillings Current Money, for every
Year such Person shall keep Ordinary as aforesaid, to be Paid by
the Person or Persons taking such Licence, to the Sheriff of each
respective County where such Person or Persons shall Inhabit, which

To the

Sheriffs,

And by the
Sheriffs to
the Com-
missioners.

said Sheriffs respectively are hereby required and obliged, by virtue
of their Office, to receive and collect the same, as well as all Fines
and Forfeitures arising on the Breach of any part of this Act, by such
Ordinary-keepers, and the same Yearly to pay to the Commissioners
or Trustees aforesaid, by them to be applied to the Repaying the
aforesaid principal Sum so as aforesaid Borrowed and Appropriated,
for which said Licence and Recognizance every Ordinary-keeper
shall pay to the Clerk of each respective County Court, the Sum of

Clerk's Fee,

Three Shillings and no more.

County
Courts to

fix the

Rates of
Liquors, &c.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Justices of the several County Courts, be, and are hereby Authorized
and Impowered, at their several County Cum is in the Month of
August Yearly, or oftner, as they shall think fit, to Set and Assess
the Rates and Prices of all Liquors and other Accommodations what-
soever, in Current Money of this Province, 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 and other
Accommodations so to be Set and Assessed, Limitted and Appointed,
by the Justices aforesaid, shall be by their several and respective