Acts. 479

keep an Ordinary until such Person enter into a Recognizance in the
Name of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Prov-
ince in the sum of forty Pounds Current Money with two sufficient
Sureties conditioned that if the Person so obtaining such License
shall keep good Rules and Orders and not suffer loose idle or dis-
orderly Persons to tipple, game, or commit any Disorders or other
Irregularities in such Ordinary and shall also well and truly observe,
perform, fulfil and keep the several Matters and Things in this Act
particularly specified and in every Respect conform himself thereto
then the said Recognizance to be void otherwise of fforce For which
said Licenses and Recognizances a Copy of the Rates of Liquors
and other Accomodations every Ordinary Keeper shall pay to the

Liber H. S.

No. 1

Clerk of each respective County Court the sum of four shillings
Current Money and no more

And be it Enacted that no Ordinary Keeper shall presume to
entertain any Sailor or Sailors or other Person employed in loading
of Ships or Vessels (the Master and Mate excepted) to the Neglect
of their Business under the Pain of Suspension nor shall credit any
such Sailor for more than four shillings during any one Voyage
under the Penalty of losing his Debt and being fined twenty shillings
Current Money

[Clerk's fees
for his
Services]
[Sailors not
to be enter-
tained, under
Suspension,
&c. under
pain of sus-
pension]
p. 717

And be it further Enacted That if any Ordinary Keeper shall
harbour entertain or sell any Liquor to any Indented Apprentice or
Apprentice bound out by any County Court of this Province or any
bought indented or convicted Servant or any Slave belonging to or
employed by any Person or Persons within this Province without
Leave or License in Writing first had and obtained from the respec-
tive Master Mistress or Owner of such Apprentice Servant or Slave
such Ordinary Keeper shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay
twenty shillings to the Master or Mistress of such Apprentice Ser-
vant or Slave to be recovered with Costs upon Complaint of the said
Master or Mistress before a Justice of the County where such Ordi-
nary Keeper lives

And Whereas it is a general Complaint throughout this Province
That Ordinary Keepers have made it their frequent Practice to game
in their own Houses and to entertain Tradesmen and other Persons
having Families and no visible means of subsistence but by their own

[Ordinary-
Keepers,
entertaining
Apprentices
Servants, or
slaves, with-
out leave
from their
Masters &c.
to forfeit
20 s. recov-
erable before
a single
Magistrate]

Labour and Industry and single disorderly Persons tipling and
gaming in their Houses to the wasting their Time and Ruin of them-
selves and ffamilies and to the evil Example of others For Prevention
of such Evils for the future
Be it Enacted that no Person licensed to keep Ordinary shall game
in his own House under the Penalty of ten Pounds Current Money
for every such Offence or shall suffer any Tradesmen or other Person
having a ffamily and no visible Estate or other Means of Support than
his own Labour and Industry or any single Person not having a

[Ordinary
Keepers not
to game in
their own
Houses,
under the
Penalty of
10 l. nor
suffer trades-
men to tipple
on Pain of
losing their
debt]