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

Session Laws

any such Trustee, or suspected Trustee, shall refuse to be so examined,
such Refusal shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient Evidence to
prove the Fact; and that every Trustee, or suspected Trustee, sub-
mitting to be, and being so examined, and not answering truly to

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such Interrogatories, and being thereof legally convict, by Confession
or Verdict of a Jury, shall suffer as in Case of wilful and corrupt
Perjury.

County
Justices to
give this Act
in charge to
the Grand
Jurors

And be it further Enacted, That the Justices of the respective
County Courts shall give such Part of this Act as relates to Ordinary-
keepers and Innholders, in Charge to the several Grand Jurors, and
to their several and respective Constables in their said County, to
enquire into the Breach of this Act, and into all Disorders committed
in the said Ordinaries and present the same, if any be, to the several
Courts, to be examined and punished according to Law.

A former
Act repealed

And be it further Enacted, That an Act of Assembly, made at a
Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the
twenty-eighth Day of October, One thousand seven hundred and
twelve, Entituled, An Act restraining Victuallers and Keepers of
public Houses from entertaining of Sailors, ito the Prejudice of Trade
and Commerce, be and is hereby repealed, abrogated, and made null
and void.

Surplus
Money, if
any, how to
be applied

And be it further Eacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case
during the Continuance of this Act, any more Money shall be raised,
levied, or paid to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, in Virtue
thereof, than the said Sum of four thousand five hundred Pounds,
that the Surplus or Remainder shall be, and is hereby directed to be
appropriated and applied towards Discharge of the public Expences
of this Province, as the General Assembly thereof shall direct and
appoint.

Continuance
of this Act

This Act to continue until the said Sum of four thousand five hun-
dred Pounds shall be levied, collected, repaid, and replaced unto
the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid; and until the End of the
next Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the said Repay-
ment and Replacing.

Chapter II

An Act continuing an Act, entituled, An Act for the Advancement
of Justice.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That an Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled, An
Act for the Advancement of Justice, made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty-first Day of
September, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred Forty and
Two, be, and is hereby continued, and to be and remain in Force, for