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usually flows, as an Encouragement to such Improvers, be for ever
deemed the Right, Title, and Inheritance of such Improver or Im-
provers, their Heirs and Assigns for ever.

Session Laws

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall
not hereafter be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever, to
keep or raise any Swine, Sheep, or Geese, within the said Town,
unless they be well inclosed in some Lot or Pen.
And whereas there are several very valuable Improvements made
in said Towns, by Virtue of the Laws already made, and whereby
they were erected into Towns; Be it Enacted by the Authority afore-
said, by and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That all Takers-
up of Lots, and former and after Purchasers under this or the former
Laws, complying with the Requisites directed by such former Laws
and this, shall have a sure and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in
Fee-Simple in said Lots taken up by him or them; any Law, Usage,
or Custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.

No Swine,
Sheep, &c. to
be raised in
said Town

An Act for ascertaining the Allowance of Petit Jurors attending
the Provincial Court, and to limit Costs with Respect to Evidences.

Chap. XIII

Whereas, the Allowance heretofore made Petit Jurors, attending
the Provincial Court, is so small, that the same is not sufficient to
maintain such Jury-men during the Time of their Attendance: In
order therefore that a reasonable Provision may be made for such,
It is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-

Proviso

thority of the same, That from and after the End of this Session of
Assembly, as often as any Person or Persons shall be summoned
to attend as Petit Jurors, at the Provincial Court of this Province,
there shall be allowed to every such Person so summoned, and at-
tending the Provincial Court aforesaid, in lieu and stead of all or

p. 12

any Allowance or Allowances by any former Act or Acts of Assem-
bly of this Province the Sum of sixty Pounds of Tobacco per Day,
for every Day any such Petit Juror or Jurors shall attend the Pro-
vincial Court aforesaid, in the public Levy of this Province, and be
paid in the respective County or Counties where such Juror resides ;
besides the Sum of one hundred and twenty Pounds of Tobacco to
be allowed every full Jury that shall pass their Verdict in any Cause,
to be paid by the Party for whom such Verdict shall pass, and be
allowed in the Bill of Costs as usual, and no more; any Law, Statute,
or Usage, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Allowances
of Petit
Jurors, in
the Pro-
vincial
Court

And whereas it is, and has been a frequent Practice among Par-
ties to Suits, to summon several Witnesses to the Proof of one and
the same Matter of Fact in a Cause, and many others who really
know nothing of the Fact, and are summoned only to enhance the

Regulation
as to Num-
ber of Wit-
nesses