408 Assembly Proceedings, June 17-July 8, 1746.

Session Laws

said, on or before the last Day of April, every Year during the Con-
tinuance of this Act, to be by the said Commissioners or Trustees
applied to the replacing the aforesaid Sum of Four Thousand Five
Hundred Pounds, so as aforesaid taken out and applied: For which
said License and Recognizance to keep good Rules and Order, as is
hereafter directed, every Ordinary-keeper shall pay to the Clerk of
each respective County Court the Sum of three Shillings, and no
more.

Prices of
Liquors and
other Ac-
commoda-
tions to be
set up in all
Ordinaries

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Justices of the several County Courts be and are hereby authorized
and impowered, at their several County Courts in the Month of
August yearly, or oftner as they shall think fit, to set and assess the
Rates and Prices of all Liquors and other Accommodations what-
soever, in Current Money of this Province, by them the said Ordi-
nary-keepers to be vended for the Year ensuing, and so yearly and
every Year; which Rates and Prices of all Liquors and other Accom-
modations, 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 Country 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 Ordinary-keeper within each County is hereby obliged to keep
set up in the most public 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

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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 Nonsuit, 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 Complaint; the said