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L. H. J
Liber No. 46
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so to be set and assessed, limited and appointed, by the Justices
aforesaid, shall be by their several and respective Clerks transcribed,
and set up at the several and respective County Courts in some public
Places there, that every Person may peruse the same, the Copy of
which Table of Prices of Liquors and Accommodations, every Ordi-
nary 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 Ordinary 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 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 Accommodations, for which the Rates
and Prices shall be so assessed from any Person or Persons whatso-
ever, above the Rates and Prices so assessed, shall for every such
Account charged, sued for, taken, or received, forfeit and pay the
Sum of fifty Shillings Current money, to be collected, paid, and
applied as aforesaid, and in Case of Suit on such Account, such
Ordinary Keeper shall be non-suit, and pay the Defendant his full
Cost of Suit, and for every such Account paid and Satisfied to any
Ordinary Keeper, such Ordinary-Keeper shall on Complaint of such
matter by the Party injured, to a single Magistrate, or County
Court, be by such Magistrate or Court in a summary way ordered
and compelled to restore to such Party injured, the whole Sum so
before had and received on such Account, and his Cost on such Com-
plaint, 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 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.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that every
Ordinary Keeper, or Inn-holder, so to be licensed as aforesaid, shall,
within six months after granting their respective Licenses, be hereby
obliged to provide and maintain, if they keep Ordinary at the Court
House in any County, four good and substantial Beds, 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
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