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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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570 31 ELIZ. CAP. 5, COMMON INFORMERS.
and that all Actions, Suits, Bills, or Informations which after
the said twenty Days .shall be had, brought, sued or commenced
for any Forfeiture upon any Penal Statute made, or to be made,
except the Statute of Tillage, the Benefit and Suit whereof
is or shall be by the said Statute limited to the Queen, her
Heirs or Successors, and to any other which shall prosecute in
that Behalf, shall be had, brought, sued or commenced by any
Person that may lawfully pursue for the same, as aforesaid,
within one Year next after the Offence committed, or to be com-
mitted against the said Statute; (3) and in Default of such
Pursuit, that then the same shall be had, sued, exhibited or
brought for the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, at
any Time 'within two Years after that Year ended. (4) And
if any Action, Suit, Bill, Indictment or Information for any
Offence against any Penal Statute made or to be made, except
the Statute of Tillage, shall be brought after this Time in that
Behalf before limited, That then the same shall be void and
of none Effect; any Act or Statute made to the contrary not-
withstanding.
VI. Provided always, That where any Action, Information,
Indictment, or other Suit, is or shall be limited by any Statute
Penal, to be had, sued, commenced or brought within shorter
424* Time than is afore-rehearsed, That in every such Case,
The Action, Information, Indictment, or other Suit shall be
brought within the Time limited by such Estatute.
Vll. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That the Statute made in the seventh Year of the Reign of
the late King of famous Memory, King Henry the Eighth, con-
cerning the Time of bringing Actions or Informations upon
Penal Laws, shall from and after twenty Days after the End
of this Session of Parliament be utterly repealed; (2) and that
all Suits from and after the said twenty Days to be pursued
upon any Statute, for using any unlawful Game, or for not using
of any lawful Game; (3) or for not having Bows and Arrows
according to the Law; (4) or for using any Art or Mystery, in
the which the Party hath not been brought up according to the
Statute in that Behalf made; (5) shall be sued and prosecuted
in the General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace, or Assises of the
same County where the Offence shall be committed, or other-
wise enquired of, heard and determined in the Assises, or Gen-
eral Quarter-Sessions of the Peace of the same County where

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