or to the end of the next Session of Assembly, which shall
first happen.
 

                        P.

            Perjury and Subornation.

    I.  An. 4. W. & M. 1692. p. 11.  If any Person whatsoever
shall procure any Witness to commit wilful and
corrupt Perjury in any of the Courts of Record in this
Province, or corruptly procure any Witness to testify in
perpetuam Rei memoriam, such Person being thereof lawfully
Convicted, shall forfeit the summ of 40 l. Sterling, 
and if he hath not Estate to the value, then to suffer Imprisonment
for one whole year, and stand upon the Pillory
for one hour.
    II.  No Person so Convicted shall be admitted and
sworn as a Witness, until such Judgment given against
him shall be reverst; and upon such reversal the Party
grieved shall recover his damages against those that procured
the said Judgment.
    III.  If any Person commit any wilful Perjury in any
Court of Record in this Province, or being examined
in perpetuam rei memoriam, and be thereof duly Convicted,
he shall forfeit 20 l. Sterl. and suffer Imprisonment
the space of 6 months.  And the Oath of such Person
shall not be received in any Court of Record, till the
Judgment against him shall be reverst, upon which Reversal
the Party grieved shall recover his damages as aforesaid.
And if the Offender hath not an Estate to the
value of 20 l. then he shall be set on the Pillory, and
have both Ears nail'd., and be thenceforth discredited
and disabled to be sworn in any Court of Record, until
the Judgment be reverst, upon which the Party shall recover
damages as aforesaid.
    IV.  One Moiety of the said Forfeitures shall be to
the King, for the support of the Government, the other
to the Party grieved.
    V.  If any Person duly serv'd with Process, to testify
in any cause depending in any Court relating to the Premises,