he shall be allowed in the parish Fifty Pounds of Tobacco; and that
the
same shall be read Four Times a Year, viz. on some Sunday
in March, in
june, in September, and in December, by every
Minister within this Province,
in their respective Parish-Churches, between Divine Service and Sermon,
on
Pain of forfeiting One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for every Omission,
one
Half to the Lord Proprietor, for the Use aforesaid, and the other Half
to
him that will sue for the same; to be recovered by Action of Debt,
Bill,
Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law
to be
allowed.
XIII. Provided
always, and be it Enacted, that all Informations for
Blasphemy and Sabbath-breaking, shall be made within One Month after
the
Fact; and that all Prosecutions and Informations for Swearing, Cursing,
Drunkenness, and Omission to punish the same, shall be made within
Ten Days
after the Fact; and that all prosecutions for not Reading this act,
and for
selling Liquors, and suffering Drunkenness and Gaming on the Sabbath-Day,
shall be commenced within Six Months after such Omission, and not after.
XIV. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That one Act made at a Sessions of Assembly, begun and held at the
Port of Annapolis, the First Day of July, Anno Domini Sixteen
Hundred and
Ninety-six, entitled, An Act for sanctifying and keeping holy the
Lord's Day,
commonly called Sunday; and also one other Act of Assembly,
made a Session
of Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty-sixth
Day of April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifteen, entitled,
An
Act
for the Punishment of Blasphemy, profane Swearing, Cursing and Drunkenness,
be, and are hereby repealed and made void.
XV. Provided,
that all Prosecutions already begun, for any Breach of
the former Laws, or any Judgment rendered, shall not be defeated or
altered
by this Act; but that the several Courts and magistrates may proceed
to hear
and determine the same to Judgment, award Execution, and on all former
judgments rendered as aforesaid, s fully and amply as heretofore they
might
have done, the repeal of the said Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XVI.
in his Parish-Church Four
Times a
Year,
on Forfeiture
of 1000 lb
Tobacco.
Limitation of
Prosecutions
on Breaches
of this Act.
The Act of
1696, ch. 10,
and of 1715,
ch. 34, repealed.
Proviso
with Regard
to Prosecutions
already
commenced
for
Breach of former
Laws. |
WHEREAS by an g Act of Assembly, made at the Town
and Port
of Annapolis, the Fifth Day of September, Anno Domini
Seventeen
hundred and Four, entitled, An Act for Marking the Highways,
&c. there is a Fine of One Hundred Pounds of Tobacco to be levied
upon all Taxable Male Persons that shall neglect top attend at the
Clearing and
Mending the Highways, when duly warned by the Overseers thereof; the
which Fines have proved a greater Burthen to the people than was designed
by that Act, by Means of the chargeable Way of Recovery thereof in
the
County Courts: For Remedy whereof,
II. BE it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the upper
and lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That from
and after the
End of this present Session of Assembly, no Person within this Province,
shall, by virtue of the aforementioned Act, be prosecuted in any County
Court for their not appearing when warned to clear the highways; any
thing
contained therein to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Preamble.
g 1704, ch. 21.
Fines for not
appearing to
clear the
Highways,
not to be prosecuted
in the
County
Court. |
