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	licenced Ordinary-Keeper to sell, or dispose of, after Sun-set, at the Time and Place of Horse Racing as aforesaid, any such strong or spirituous Liquors, or mixed Drink, on Pain of forfeiting, for every such Offence, the Sum of Five Pounds Current Money; to be recov- ered, with Costs, in the County Court where the Offence shall be committed, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, Indictment or Informa- tion, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be al- lowed, or more than one Imparlance, and applied as herein after directed.	Liber H. S. No. 1 [None to be sold after Sunset] p. 351
	VII. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any Master or Commander, or any other Officer, Skipper or Sailor, belonging to any Ship, Sloop, or other Vessel within this Province, to sell (except to Sailors belonging to, or Persons employed to labour on board any such Ship, Sloop, or other Vessel), any Wine, Rum, Cyder, Brandy, or other spirituous Liquors, or any mixed Drink, in which is contained any such spirituous Liquor, and suffer the same to be drank in such Vessel, under the Penalty of Thirty Shillings Current Money, for every Quantity of such Liquors, or mixed Drink, in which is contained any such Liquors, so sold, and suffered to be drank, as aforesaid; to be recovered before one Justice of the Peace, as in Case of small Debts, and applied as herein after directed.	[Penalty for retailing on board Vessels.]
	VIII. And whereas the extensive Credit given in Ordinaries, or Inns, within this Province, is found by Experience to be very pre- judicial, both to the Ordinary-Keepers, or Innholders, and others the good People of this Province: For Remedy whereof, Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Ordinary-Keeper, or Inn- holder, within this Province, shall, after the said First Day of March next, presume to trust or credit any Person or Persons, other than Travellers, more or above the Sum of Ten Shillings Current Money of this Province, he, she or they, so trusting or crediting any Person or Persons more than the Sum of Ten Shillings, as aforesaid, for any Sorts of strong Liquors, or other Tavern Expences, shall lose the Debt, and thereby be disabled from ever recovering the said Debt, or any Part thereof; and in any Action in a Court of Justice, or Dispute before a Justice of the Peace, between any Ordinary-Keeper or Innholder, and any Person or Persons other than Travellers, for any Debt so as aforesaid contracted, such Court, and the Jury in any Trial by a Jury, or Justice of the Peace, shall, by Virtue of this Act, consider and inquire, whether any Part of such Debt, so sued for or claimed, before such Justice of the Peace, be contracted contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; and if it shall appear to such Court and Jury, or Justice of the Peace, that any Part of such Debt was contracted contrary to this Act, that then the Plaintiff shall be nonsuit, and the Defendant recover his Cost of Suit; and that in Case any Action or Demand shall be brought, by any Ordinary-	[Inn- Keepers not to trust above 108. except to Travellers.]