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L. H. J
Liber No. 46
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Sherifs as aforesaid, and by the said Commissioners or Trustees
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 name 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.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that no
Person or Persons inhabiting within this Province, not having law-
ful License, shall sell by Retale unless sold at the common and usual
Rates of such Liquors between Merchants and others, any Cyder,
Quince Drink, or other strong Liquors, to be drank in his her or
their Houses, or about his her, or their Plantation, upon the For-
feiture of every Time he, she, or they shall be legally convict thereof,
the sum of five Pounds Current money, one half thereof to the Com-
missioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be collected, paid, and applied
as aforesaid, and the other half to the Informer, or to him or them
that shall sue for the same, to be recovered as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that all
licensed Ordinary Keepers shall be provided with and sell by sealed
measures, all Liquors (except such as shall come into the Province
in Bottles) And that any Ordinary Keeper who shall neglect to pro-
vide and always keep a Quart, Pint, Half Pint, and Gill Pot, or any
of them, sealed measures, or neglect to sell by the same as aforesaid,
shall forfeit and pay five pounds Current money, to the uses afore-
said, to be collected and applied as aforesaid, and recovered in the
County Court where the Ordinary Keeper offending resides, 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.
And whereas it hath been found prejudicial to the Inhabitants of
this Province, that Ordinary Keepers and Innholders have fre-
quently entertained, diverse loose, idle and disorderly Persons, a
great Time tipling at their Houses, as well to the great Damage of
many Persons, as their own Ruin.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that it shall
not be lawful for any such Ordinary Keeper or Innholder to keep
such Ordinary or House of Entertainment, until he or she give good
and sufficient Security by Bond or Recognizance to the Right honour-
able the Lord Proprietor, his Hiers and Successors, in twenty
Pounds Current Money, before the Justices of the County Court
where any Ordinary shall be kept, to keep good Rules and Orders,
and not to suffer idle, loose, or disorderly Persons, to tipple, game,
or commit other Disorders or Irregularities in such Ordinary, con-
trary to the true Intent and meaning of this Act, and that upon the
Breach of any such Bond or Recognizance, the Recovery of the
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