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or Defendants shall and may recover treble Costs, and have such
Remedy for the same, as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have
Costs of Suit in other Cases at Law.
XCVII. And be it further Enacted, That the several Forfeitures
and Penalties mentioned in this Act, except where it is otherwise
directed by this Act, shall and may be recovered, either in a sum-
mary Way before a single Magistrate, where the Penalty does not
exceed Fifty Shillings, or in any Court of Record within this Prov-
ince, where the Penalty does not exceed Fifty Shillings, by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection
or Wager of Law, shall be allowed, one Half thereof to the Informer,
or him or them that shall sue for the same, the other Half thereof
to the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be by them applied
to the sinking of the aforesaid Sum of Forty Five Thousand Pounds.
And that all Actions and Suits to be brought and prosecuted, for any
Penalty, or Forfeiture, under this Act, shall be commenced within
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Six Months after such Penalty shall be incurred, and not after,
any Thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
XCVIII. And whereas the frequent Use of Carriages may be
necessary; Be it Enacted, That from and after the End of this Session
of Assembly, until the First Day of April One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Sixty-three, when and as often as the Service may
require the carrying of Gunpowder, Shot, Lead, Arms, Cloathing,
or any Military Stores or Accoutrements whatsoever, or Provisions
of any Kind, for Troops in his Majesty's Service, there shall be paid
llic following Rates of Carriage to the Owner or Owners of all such
Carriages as shall be employed in such Service, viz. For the Hire
of every Cart with Four Horses and a Driver, the Sum of Twelve
Shillings Current Money per Day, and for the Hire of every Waggon,
with Four Horses and a Driver, the Sum of Fifteen Shillings Cur-
rent Money per Day, during the Time such Cart or Waggon shall
be detained or employed in his Majesty's Service. Provided always,
and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that where any
Cart or Waggon shall be discharged from the Service for which they
were pressed, at any Distance from the Place of Abode of the Owner
thereof, that then the said Owner or Owners shall he paid for the
Hire of their said Cart or Waggon after the Rate of Sixpence per
Mile, for every Mile they shall be obliged to travel from the Place
of their Discharge to their respective Places of Abode.
XCIX. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That no Officer or Commander of any Company, or Person employ-
ing any Cart or Waggon in Virtue of this Act, shall constrain or
eompel the Owner or Driver of such Cart or Waggon, to travel more
than Fifteen Miles in any one Day, on Pain of forfeiting the Sum
of Five Pounds Current Money, to be recovered before One Pro-
vincial Justice, or Two Justices of the Peace, where the Offence shall
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