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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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21 JAC. 1, CAP. 4, COMMON INFORMERS. 587
any common Informer, or other Person whatsoever, in any of
his Majesty's Courts at Westminster, for, or concerning any
the Offences, Penalties or Forfeitures aforesaid, shall be void
and of none Effect; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary
thereof notwithstanding.
II. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That in all Informations to be exhibited, and in all Bills,
Counts, Plaints and Declarations, in any Action or Suit to be
commenced against any Person or Persons, either by, or on the
* Behalf of the King, or any other, for, or concerning any 437
Offence committed, or to be committed against any Penal
Statute, the Offence shall be laid and alledged to have been
committed in the said County where such Offence was in Truth
committed, and not elsewhere: (2) And if the Defendant to
any such Information, Action or Suit, pleadeth that he oweth
nothing, or that he is not guilty; and the Plaintiff or Informer
in such Information, Action or Suit, upon Evidence to the Jury
that shall try such Issue, shall not both prove the Offence laid
in the said Information, Action or Suit, and that the same
Offence "was committed in tliat County, then the Defendant
and Defendants shall be found not guilty.
III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That no Officer or Minister in any Court of Record, shall
receive, file or enter of Record any Information, Bill or Plaint,
Count or Declaration, grounded upon the said Penal Statutes,
or any of them, which before by this Act are appointed to be
heard and determined in their proper Counties, until the In-
former or Relator hath first taken a Corporal Oath before
some of the Judges of that Court, that the Offence or Offences
laid in such Information, Action, Suit or Plaint, was, or were
not committed in any other County than where by the said
Information, Bill, Plaint, Count or Declaration, the same is, or
are supposed to have been committed, and that he believeth
in his Conscience, the Offence was committed within a Year
before the Information or Suit, within the same County where
the said Information or Suit was commenced, the same Oath
to be there entred of Record.
IV. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That
if any Information, Suit or Action shall be brought or exhibited
against any Person or Persons, for any Offence committed or to
be committed against the Form of any Penal Law, either by, or

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