Acts. 131

Clerks transcribed, and set up at the several and respective County
Courts in some publick Places there, that every Person may peruse
the same; the Copy of which Table of Prices of Liquors and Ac-

Session
Laws

commodations, every Ordinary-keeper within each County is hereby
obliged to keep set up in the most publick and convenient Place of
their Houses, for the Perusal of such Persons as receive any Ordi-
nary Accommodations, under the Penalty of Five Pounds Current
Money, to be Collected, Paid and Applied as aforesaid, and on Non-
payment thereof to be sued for in his Lordship's Name, by Bill,
Plaint or Information, or upon the Presentment of any Grand Jury,
without the formality of an Indictment, for which 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

Copies to be
set up.

Innholder, who shall, after the Assessing and Setting up the Rates
and Prices aforesaid, directly or indirectly, take, exact, demand or
receive, for the Price and Pay for any such Liquors or other Ac-
commodations, for which the Rates and Prices shall be assessed
and set up as aforesaid, from any Person or Persons whatsoever,
above the Rates and Prices so set up and assessed as aforesaid, shall
for every such Account sued for, taken or received, forfeit and pay
the Sum of Fifty Shillings Current Money, to be Collected, Paid and

Ordinary-
keepers
offending
against this
Act to be
fin'd,

Applied as aforesaid, and lose every such Debt or Account sued for,
taken, or received, so unjustly Charged, Exacted or Demanded, the
said Forfeiture to be Recovered in his Lordship's Name before any
Magistrate of the County where the Offence shall be Committed,
as in case of small Debts.

And lose
Debts
illegally
charged

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 Extor-
tion contrary to this Act.

The Party
injured,
deem'd good
witness

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every
Ordinary-keeper or Innholder, so to be Licenced as aforesaid, shall,
within Six Months after Granting their respective Licences, be
hereby obliged to provide and maintain, if they keep Ordinary at
the Court-House in any County, four good and substantial Beds,

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or at the City of Annapolis aforesaid, six good Beds, over and above
what is for their own Family's Use, with sufficient warm Covering
for the same, and 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 Country than at the Court-House, such Ordinary-
keeper shall, within the Time aforesaid, be provided with Two spare
Beds with Covering, and sufficient Stabling and Provender for Six
Horses at least, under the Penalty of Ten Pounds Current Money,
one half thereof to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be
Collected by the Sheriffs of the respective Counties where the said
Offence shall be committed, and by the said Sheriffs paid to the said
Commissioners, to be applied as aforesaid, the other half to him or

Ordinary-
keepers to
be well
provided
with Beds,
&c. or be
fin'd.