402 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 28-Dec. 16, 1757.

Liber H. S.

No. 1

for printing and delivering the Laws and Votes as aforesaid; Be it
therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the several and
respective Sheriffs within this Province, be, and are hereby obliged
and required to pay to the said Jonas Green, or his Order, all and
every Sum or Sums of Money, heretofore levied for the said Jonas
Green by the said Act; any Neglect, or Want of such Certificate as
aforesaid, or any Clause, Matter or Requisite, in the said Act men-
tioned to the contrary, notwithstanding.

15^th December 1757 On behalf of the Right 15 December 1757
Read and assented to Honourable the Lord Read and assented to
By the Lower house of Proprietary of this Prov- by the upper house of
assembly ince I will this be a Law assembly
Signed p order Hor.o Sharpe Signed p order
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The Great Seal
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No. 17

An additional Supplementary Act to the Act, entituled, An Act for
issuing and taking out of the Office of the Commissioners or Trus-
tees appointed for Emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of
Assembly, the Sum of £4500 Current Money, for Encouragement
of such able-bodied Freemen as shall voluntarily Enlist themselves
into his Majesty's Service, for the intended Expedition against
Canada; and for maintaining and conveying them to the Place of
Rendezvous; as also for replacing of the said Sum, and for the
better regulating Ordinaries and Ordinary-Keepers; and for other
Purposes therein mentioned.

[Preamble.]

I. Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, That the
Laws heretofore made, to prevent and restrain any Person or Persons
within this Province, not having obtained a Licence to sell or retail
spirituous Liquors in small Quantities, are insufficient for that Pur-
pose, and that such Practices not only encourage many People, espe-

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cially of the poorer Sort, to loiter and waste their Time in Rioting and
Drunkenness, to the great Damage of themselves and Families, but
also are of manifest Prejudice and Discouragement to several licenced
Ordinary-Keepers, who, at this Time, for their Licences, pay a con-
siderable Sum towards defraying the public Charge. And whereas it
is become a common Practice for Persons of low Character, as well
Ordinary-Keepers as others, the better to make a Profit on the Sale
of strong and spirituous Liquors, to advertise, and hold what they
call Fairs, or make Horse Races, thereby drawing together many idle
and disorderly People, especially the Negroes and Servants living
near the Place or Places where such Fairs are kept and held, to the
great Prejudice of the Masters or Owners of such Negroes and Ser-
vants, and to the manifest Encouragement of Licentiousness and
Debauchery : For Remedy thereof, it is prayed that it may be enacted,