of Five Pounds Current Money; one Half to the informer, or him or them
who will sue for the same; the other Half to the use of the County
School
where such Offence shall be committed; to be recovered in any Court
of Record
within this Province, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information,
wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed; any
thing
in the above recited Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
III. Provided
always, That nothing herein contained, shall extend to
prevent, hinder, or preclude, any licenced Ordinary-Keeper, Merchant,
or
other Person dwelling or residing in the said Counties, from Selling
and Strong
or Spirituous Liquors at his or her Dwelling-house, or Place of Residence,
during the Days on which such Yearly Meetings shall be kept or held
as aforesaid,
so that such Liquors to be sold as aforesaid (except what is sold by
Persons duly admitted and licenced to keep Ordinary) be not drank at
the
Place where the same is Sold or exposed to Sale.
IV. And be it
further Enacted, That so much of the above recited Act,
prohibiting the Setting up and Erecting any Booth or Conveniency, or
selling
or disposing of any Strong or Spirituous liquors, or other Accommodations,.
or giving any Entertainment to any persons at a distance more than
Three
Miles, be, and is hereby Repealed.
V. This Act to continue during the Continuance
of the above-recited Act,
and no longer.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
The Original ACt of 1747, ch. 14,
is (together with this Act) continued by 1754, ch.. 20;
1757,
ch. 20; and 1762, ch. 3.
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CHAP.
XIV.
Proviso in favour
of Ordinary
Keepers,
&c.
Part of the
Act of 1747,
ch. 17, Repealed.
Duration. |
A Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, g
An
Act for issuing and taking out of
the Office of the Commissioners or Trustees for
emitting Bills of Credit established
by Act of Assembly, the Sum of Four Thousand
Five Hundred Pounds Current
Money, for Encouragement of such able Bodied
Free-men as shall voluntarily
Enlist themselves in his Majesty's Service, for
the intended Expedition against
Canada; and for maintaining and conveying them
to the Place of Rendezvous:
As also for replacing the said Sum, and for the
better regulating Ordinaries and
Ordinary-Keepers; and for other Purposes therein
mentioned. Lib. B.L.C.
fol. 568. EXP.
The present Act (which only
continued 3 years) was intended to restrain all Persons, not
having lawful Licence, from selling strong Liquors to
be drank in or about their Houses and
Plantations: Which Abuse is more effectually provided
against by the Additional Supplementary
Act of 1757, ch. 33. |
Ditto.
g 1746, ch. 1. |
