132 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

Session
Laws

them that shall inform or sue for the same, to be Recovered by
Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, in the Names of the
Lord Proprietary and Informer, wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or
Wager of Law to be allowed.
Provided always, That no Person or Persons so Licenced, or to be
Licenced, to keep Ordinary as aforesaid, shall, during the Time of
such their Keeping Ordinary, be Delegates, Justices of Peace, Attor-

Not to hold
public
Offices
Not to keep
disorderly
Houses

neys, Deputy-Commissaries, Clerks, Sheriffs, Deputy-Sheriffs, or
Jurymen, or hold any other Publick Office, 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.

To be
suspended,
if need be,
by two
Justices,

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 her self, 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,

Or supprest.

and either suffer such Ordinary-keeper to keep Ordinary longer, or
entirely to suppress such Ordinary.

After
suspension
not to
presume
to keep
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.

Ordinaries
not to be
kept without
Licence, on
forfeiture of
10 1. per
Month
p. 6

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That any
Ordinary-keeper disabled or suppressed 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, she, or
they shall keep Ordinary, forfeit and pay Ten Pounds Current
Money, and so proportionably for a longer or shorter Time, that
any Person shall sell Liquors, or do contrary to this Law, one half
to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be collected and paid
by the Sheriffs as aforesaid, and by the said Commissioners or Trus-
tees applied as aforesaid, and the other half to him or them that shall
sue for the same, to be Recovered in the County Court where such
Offence shall be committed, in the Names of the Lord Proprietor
and Informer, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information,
wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or Wager of Law to be allowed.

Retailing,
&c.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That no
Person or Persons inhabiting within this Province, not having law-