134 Assembly Proceedings, July 7-29, 1740.

Session
Laws

and very often when such Sailors have spent all their Wages in such
Ordinaries, it occasions and induces them to run away, and desert
the Ships and Vessels whereto they belong: For Prevention whereof,
Be it Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,

Entertaining
Sailors

That no Ordinary-keeper whatsoever within this Province, shall
presume to Harbour or Entertain any Sailor or Sailors, or other
Person employed in loading of Ships or Vessels (the Master and
Mate only excepted) to the neglect of their Service to their respec-
tive Commanders, and prejudice to the Dispatch of any Ship or
Vessel thereby, under the pain and penalty of being Suspended from

Not to be
trusted
above 53.

keeping such Ordinary: And that no Ordinary-keeper whatsoever,
shall Credit any such Sailor for more than Five Shillings during any
one Voyage, under the Penalty of losing his Debt and of being
fined the Sum of Twenty Shillings Current Money, whereof one
half to be collected, paid and applied as aforesaid, and the other half
to the Informer, or him or them that will sue for the same, to be
Recovered as aforesaid before a single Magistrate.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Ordinary-keeper within this Province, shall Harbour, Entertain, or
sell any Liquors to, any Servant belonging to any Person within

Entertaining
Servants

this Province, without Licence from their respective Master or Mis-
tress, such Ordinary-keeper shall, for every such Offence, forfeit
and pay Ten Shillings to the Master or Mistress of such Servant, to
be recovered with Cost, upon Complaint of the said Master or Mis-
tress, before a Justice of the County where the said Ordinary-keeper
lives.

To prevent
idle
Tradesmen
wasting
their Time
and
Substance
in
Ordinaries

And whereas it is a general Complaint throughout this Province,
that Ordinary-keepers have made it their constant practice to enter-
tain Tradesmen and other Persons having Families, and no other
Means of Supporting them but their own Labour and Industry, and
single disorderly Persons, Tippling and Gaming in their Houses,
and wasting their Time and Substance, to the Ruin of their Families,
and themselves, and the encouragement of Idleness, Drunkenness,
and all other Irregularities and Disorders: For Prevention of which
Evils for the future,

P. 8

Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That 'no Person who
shall be Licenced to keep Ordinary from and after the End of this
Session of Assembly, shall suffer any Tradesman or other Person
having a Family, and no visible Estate whereby to Support them-
selves or their Families, but their own Labour and Industry; or any

Ordinary-
keepers not
to Trust
any except
Travellers,
&c. on pain
of losing
such Debts.

single Person, whether Tradesman or otherwise, not having a visible
Estate, to Tipple or Game in such Ordinary; other than such as shall
be Invited by any Traveller, and shall accompany him only during
his necessary Abode there, and other than Persons Travelling upon
their necessary Occasions (so far distant from their own Habitations
as may render it impracticable or inconvenient to repair thither)