Acts. 227

by him or them done and executed in pursuance and Execution of
this Act or of any Matter or thing in this Act contained such
Person or Persons shall and may plead the General Issue and give
this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence for his or their Defence
and if upon Trial a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or De-
fendants or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs shall become non suited, or
discontinue his or their suit then such Defendant or Defendants
shall have and recover Treble Costs to him or them awarded against
such Paintiff or Plaintiffs and if the Plantiff or Plaintiffs is or
are unable to satisfy the same then it shall be paid and satisfied by
the Attorney who brought such suit unless the Plaintiff or Plain-
tiffs shall give Security for the Costs to be approved of by the
Courts in which such suit is brought

Liber R. G.
1773

And to prevent Individuals being unreasonably burthened with the
Execution of this Act as Trustees for the Poor Be it enacted That
at the Time of their meeting of the said Trustees for the poor in the
first Week of May Yearly the said Trustees or the Major Part
of them in the County aforesaid shall and may elect and choose one
of the best Inhabitants of the same County to be a Trustee for the
poor of that County in the stead of the first named or eldest of the

[Trustees to
choose a
new one
yearly in-
stead of the
first named
Trustee.]

said Trustees of the same County which said first named or Eldest
Trustee shall be and is by Virtue hereof thence from Discharged
from his Office.

p. 270

And be it further enacted That in all Cases upon Complaints of
the Overseer of said Workhouse or of any other Workhouse in this
Province to any Trustee for the Poor of such Workhouse that any
Rogue Vagrant Vagabond or other idle dissolute and disorderly
Person thereto committed and therein remaining hath behaved and
demeaned himself in a Disorderly Manner or hath neglected and
refused to do and perform his or her daily Labour and Task or
hath neglected or refused to obey keep and observe any of the Ordi-
nances Rules and Bye-Laws of the said Corporation it shall and
may be Lawful for such Trustee to order and direct such moderate
and proper Correction not exceeding thirty nine Lashes for any one
Offence to be given to such Offender as the Nature of the Case
shall require —

[Rogues,
&c. com-
mitted to the
Work-
House be-
having in a
disorderly
Manner, to
be cor-
rected.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly Dec.^r 16.^th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Ok. Lo. Ho:

54 Sides

On behalf of the Right I
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

The great Seal

in Wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly Dec.^r 16.th 1773
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
U. Scott Clk. Up. Ho.