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County than at the Court House, such Ordinary Keeper shall, within
the Time aforesaid, be provided with three spare Beds with Cover-
ing, 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
Sherifs of the respective Counties where the said Offence shall be
committed, and by the said Sherifs paid to the said Commissioners,
to be applied as aforesaid, the other Half to him or them that shall
inform or sue for the same, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill,
Plaint, or Information, in the name 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 licensed, or to be
licensed to keep Ordinary as aforesaid, shall, during the Time of
such their keeping Ordinary, be Delegates, Justices of Peace, Attor-
neys, Deputy Commissaries, Clerks, Sherifs, Deputy Sherifs, or
Iurymen, or hold any other publick Office within this Province.
And be it further Enacted, 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 Ordi-
nary Keeper and call in such Licence.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

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, and
either suffer such Ordinary Keeper to keep Ordinary longer, or
intirely to suppress such Ordinary.
And be it likewise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that if any
Person so suspended, shall presume, during the Time of such Sus-
pension, to keep Ordinary, that in all such Cases he or she shall in-
cur the same Penalty and Forfeiture as persons keeping Ordinary
without License are subject to by this Act.
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 License 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 Com-
missioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be collected and paid by the

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