92 Assembly Proceedings, June 3-23, 1752.

Liber B. L. C.

[Provision
for Relief
of such
Persons as
cannot find
Surety for
their Ap-
pearance as
Evidences.]

President, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That where any Person, Witness against
any Person or Persons accused of any Crime or Crimes within this
Province, cannot find Security for his Appearance to testify as a
Witness against any Person so arrested, accused, or prosecuted as
aforesaid, and for Want of such Surety shall be committed to
Prison, That then and in such Case, the County where the Prose-
cution shall be carried on, shall be chargeable with, and pay such
Witness's Imprisonment Fees; and in case the Prosecution shall be
in a. Superior Court, then and in such Case the Public shall be
chargeable with, and pay such Fees; any Laws, Usage, or Custom,
to the contrary notwithstanding.

[County
Justices to
levy the Fees
mentioned in
this Act.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That the Justices of the several and
respective County Courts shall, and they are hereby obliged and
directed to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of their Coun-
ties respectively, all such Fees as are herein before directed to be
paid by the respective Counties, from Time to Time, and at all Times
hereafter, as often as the Case shall require, during the Continuance
of this Act: And that all such Fees shall and may be paid by the
Inhabitants of this Province; in the same Manner as they are allowed
by Law to pay any other County or Public Charges.

[Continuance
of this Act.]

This Act to continue for three Years, and unto the End of the
next Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration
of the said three Years.

22.^d June 1752
Read and Assented to
by the/Lower House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince/I will this be a Law/
Benj.^a Tasker

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

23 June 1752
Read and Assented to
by the/Upper House of
Assembly/
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

No. 14

An Act to amend and explain an Act entituled, "An Act to prevent
certain Evils and Inconveniencies attending the Sale of strong
Liquors and running of Horse-Races near the yearly Meetings of
the People called Quakers, and to prevent the tumultuous Con-
course of Negroes and other Slaves during the said Meetings."

[Preamble.]
p. 567

Whereas, by the above mentioned Act, it is doubtful whether Per-
sons selling strong or spirituous Liquors in Talbot and Anne Arun-
del Counties, during the Days on which the yearly Meetings of the
People called Quakers are kept or held at their Meeting-Houses in
the said Counties, without having first built, set up, or erected a
Booth or other Conveniency for that Purpose, and within the Intent
and Meaning of the said Act, for removing of which Doubt, and
more effectually preventing the Evils and Inconveniencies complained
of by the said recited Act, it is prayed that it may be Enacted