CHAP.
XI.
Penalty on
Sheriffs not
giving speedy
Notice of Elections,
or
making undue
Election
or Return
thereof, &c.
Penalty on
Free-holders
neglecting to
appear at the
Time and
Place of Election.
The like Writ
(on calling
every General
Assembly,)
shall issue to
every County,
City or Borough
hereafter
to be erected,
&c.
Four Delegates
for each
County, and
two for each
City or Borough,
to be
deemed Members
of the
Lower House.
Allowance to
Councillors
150 lb Tobacco
per Diem |
well by Proclamation as aforesaid, and by causing the same to be Read
in all
Churches, Chapels, and other Public Places within his said Country,
as also by
Notes thereof set up at such places, thereby the better to inform the
Inhabitants
of the County, requiring them, under the penalty of One Hundred
Pounds of Tobacco, to appear at such Time and Place appointed for Election,
or shall make or cause to be made, any undue or illegal Election or
Returns
thereof, or neglect to make Returns of the Delegates so to be elected,
by Indenture,
before the Day of Sitting of such Assembly, pursuant to the Direction
of the said Writs, shall for every such Fault be fined at the Discretion
of
the Lower House of Assembly next Sitting after such Election, not exceeding
Tow Hundred Pounds Sterling, one Half to the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary, his heirs and Successors for the Support of Government,
and the other Half to the Informer, or him or them that shall sue for
the
same; to be recovered in any Court of Record within this Province that
may
have Jurisdiction of the same, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information,
wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law to be allowed.
VII. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That all Free-holders., Free-men
, and other Person
qualified to give Votes in the Election of Delegates, shall and are
hereby
obliged to be and appear at the Time and Place appointed for Elections,
to
be hereafter had or made of any Delegates, Burgesses and Citizens,
to serve
in any Assembly for this Province, under the Penalty of One Hundred
Pounds
of Tobacco, for every person so qualified as aforesaid, neglecting
to appear;
one Half thereof to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his
Heirs
and Successors, for and towards the County Charge, and the other Half
to
the Informer that shall complain to any one or more Justices or Magistrates,
of such Absence; which Justice or Justices, or other Magistrates, are
hereby
impowered to determine such Complaint, and award Execution for the
said
Penalty; unless such Person or Persons shall at the next County Court
after
such Election, shew sufficient Cause for his or their Absence, to be
allowed
and approved of by the Justices of the several County Courts in this
Province.
VII. Provided
nevertheless, That this Act or any Thing therein contained,
shall not extend to be construed to exclude any County or Counties,
City or Cities, Borough or Boroughs hereafter to be erected and made
within
this Province, from the Liberty of such Elections of Burgesses, Delegates
and
Representatives, as is before expressed; but that such Writ as aforesaid,
shall,
upon calling every General Assembly of this Province for the future,
be directed
to the Sheriff f every such County, City or Borough, when the same
shall be erected and made into a County, City or Borough as aforesaid,
and to
the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, of every such City or Borough, commanding
such Sheriff or Mayor, Recorder or Aldermen, to cause Four Free-men
of the said County, and Two Free-men of the said City or Borough,
qualified as in the aforesaid Writ is expressed, to serve as Delegates
and Representatives
of the same County, City or Borough, in the General Assembly
next ensuing; which said Four Delegates for every such County, and
Two
for the City or Borough, hall from thenceforth be reputed and deemed
to
be Members of the Lower house of the General Assembly of this Province;
any Thing in this Act in any wise to the contrary notwithstanding.
IX. And for
the ascertaining, limiting and allowing unto the several and
respective Councillors, Deputies and Delegates, that serve, or shall serve
in
the General Assemblies of this Province, and of the several and respective
Commissioners of the Provincial and County Courts of this Province, such
Sum and Sums of Tobacco as is hereby thought necessary and sufficient for
their defraying their Charges, in attending such ASsemblies and Courts,
Be it
Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the Advice and
Consent aforesaid,
That all such Councillors be allowed the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty |
