LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1780. 159
relating thereto, and on or before the first day of October yearly,
shall return to the treasurers of the western or eastern shores
respectively, where the said clerks shall officiate, a true list of
all ordinary-keepers in their respective counties, licensed as
aforesaid, and also of all fines and forfeitures, happening in that
year, under this act. |
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the justices of the several
county courts shall, at their respective county courts in the
months of June and August yearly, or oftener, as they shall
think fit, set and assess, in current money, the rates and prices
of all liquors, and other accommodations whatsoever, by ordi-
nary keepers to be vended for the year ensuing; which rates
and prices of all liquors and other accommodations, so to be
set and assessed by the justices aforesaid, shall be by their
several and respective clerks transcribed and set up, in some
public place in their respective county court-house, that every
person may peruse the same, a copy of which rates, every ordi-
nary keeper within each county is hereby obliged to keep and
set up, in the most public and convenient place of his house,
for the perusal of all persons whatsoever, under the penalty of
six hundred pounds of tobacco; and every ordinary-keeper,
who shall, directly or indirectly, demand or receive for any such
liquors, or other accommodations, more than the rates and prices
so assessed, shall, for every such demand or receipt, forfeit and
pay three hundred pounds of tobacco; and in case any suit is
brought by any ordinary-keeper, on any account wherein any
liquors, or other accommodations, are charged higher than the
rates aforesaid, such ordinary-keeper shall be non-suit, and pay
the defendant his full costs; and for every such account paid
and satisfied to any ordinary-keeper, he shall, on complaint of
the party injured, to a single magistrate or county court, be, in
a summary way, ordered and compelled, by such magistrate or
county court, to restore to the party injured the whole sum so
before had and received on such account, with his cost on such
complaint.
The duty of 'setting ordinary rates' is transferred in some counties by
local laws to the levy courts, which laws will be distributed to the appro-
priate counties, under the subdivision of 'Public Local Law.' |
Justices to
set the
price of
liquors, &c. |
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That every ordinary-keeper to
be licensed as aforesaid, shall, within two months after obtain-
ing such license, be obliged to provide and maintain (if such
ordinary be kept at the court-house in any county,) six good
feather beds, more than sufficient for the private use of such
ordinary keeper, with sufficient covering for the same, and
Indian corn, oats, hay, straw and stabling for ten horses at
least; and if at any place in the county other than the court-
house, three spare beds, with covering, and sufficient stabling |
Ordinary-
keepers to
provide
beds, &c. |
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