Acts. 409

Forfeiture to be recovered in his Lordship's Name, before any Mag-
istrate of the County where the Offense shall be committed, as in
case of small Debts.

Session Laws

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 Ex-
tortion contrary to this Act.

The Party
aggrieved
to be
deemed good
Evidence

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 Country than at the Court-house, such Ordinary-keeper
shall within the Time aforesaid be provided with three spare Beds,
with Covering, 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 Sheriffs of the respective Counties where the said Offence
shall be committed, and by the said Sheriffs paid to the said Com-
missioners, 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 Names of the Lord Pro-
prietary and Informer; wherein no Essoin, 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, dur-
ing the Time of such their keeping Ordinary, be Delegates, Justices
of Peace, Attorneys, Deputy Commissaries, Clerks, Sheriffs, Deputy
Sheriffs, or Jury-men; or hold any other public Office within this
Province.

Number of
Beds, &c. to
be kept by
Ordinary-
Keepers

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 Ordinary-
keeper, and call in such License.

Ordinary-
keepers, not
observing
good Rule,
to be sup-
press'd

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 herself, 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

p. 13
The same to
be deter-
min'd by the
County-
Court