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Session Laws
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Province, without License from their respective Master or Mis-
tress; such Ordinary-keeper shall, for every such Offence, forfeit and
pay ten Shillings to the Master or Mistress of such Servant, to be
recovered with Cost, upon Complaint of the said Master or Mistress,
before a Justice of the County where such Ordinary-keeper lives.
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Or
encourage
Tradesmen
to tipple in
their Houses
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And whereas it is a general Complaint throughout this Province,
that Ordinary-keepers have made it their constant Practice to enter-
tain Tradesmen, and other Persons having Families, and no other
Means of supporting them but their own Labour and Industry; and
single disorderly Persons tippling and gaming in their Houses, and
wasting their Time and Substance, to the Ruin of their Families and
themselves, and the Encouragement of Idleness, Drunkenness, and
all other Irregularities and Disorders: For Prevention of which
Evils for the future, Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
no Person who shall be licensed to keep Ordinary, from and after
the End of this Session of Assembly, shall suffer any Tradesman,
or other Person having a Family, and no visible Estate, or other
Way, whereby to support themselves or their Families, but their
own Labour and Industry; or any single Person, whether Trades-
man or otherwise, not having a visible Estate, to tipple or game in
such Ordinary, other than such as shall be invited by any Traveller,
and shall accompany him only during his necessary Abode there;
and other than Persons travelling upon their necessary Occasions
(so far distant from their own Habitations as may render it im-
practicable or inconvenient to repair thither), to take their Diet and
other necessary Accommodations in such Ordinary; and other than
such as may happen to be confined in such Ordinary by Sickness,
Severity of Weather, or other Accident; on Pain of not being paid
for any Liquor or other Accommodations, which such Ordinary-
keeper shall supply such Person with, or which shall be lost by any
such Person at any Games. Provided always, That no Ordinary-
keeper shall be restrained from supplying any of the Persons herein
before mentioned with Victuals or Liquors in moderate and necessary
Quantities, so as no Ordinary-keeper shall trust any such Person for
more than Five Shillings, or the Value thereof, in any one Year;
except in such Cases as herein before mentioned, to be judged of by
any Judicature having Cognizance of any Dispute concerning Ex-
pences.
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No Debts
above 5s.
contracted
contrary to
the Intent of
this Act to
be recovered
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And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in any Action
in a Court of Justice, or dispute before a single Magistrate, between
any Ordinary-keeper and any Person in this Act described, such
Court, and the Jury in any Trial by a Jury, or single Magistrate, shall
by Virtue of this Act consider and enquire whether any Debt so sued
for, or claimed before a single Magistrate, be contracted contrary
to the true Intent and meaning of this Act; and if it shall appear to
such Court, Jury, or Magistrate, that such Debt was contracted
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