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891 Which sd cause being continued from Court to Court until this present day And now here att this day the said cause standing for Tryal came the sd Richard Macklin and Informes viz Kent fs Be it remembred that the 23.d day of November Anno Dom 1697 comes here into Court Richard Macklin late of sd County Gent and exhibits here into Court his certain informacon ag.t Isaac Caulk of sd County inholder the Tenor of which Informacon followes in these words To the Justices of our Lord the King for Kent County Kent fs Be it remembred that Richard Macklin Gent who as well for Lord the King as for himselfe followes gives the Court aforesd to understand and be informed that whereas by a certain Act of Assembly made att a Gen.l Assembly hold for this Province of Maryland the 8.th day of May att the Port of Annapolis Anno Dom 1695 Entituled an Act for regulateing Ordinaries and limiting the Number of them within this Province it stands Enacted by the Authority of the same Assembly that any Ordinary Keeper disabled or suppressed or any other person that shall ^presume to^ Keepe Ordinary without Licence first had and obtained except all such persons as sett up and Keepe ordinary or Ordinaries att the port of Annapolis in Ann Arundel County shall for every Month he or they shall Keepe Ordinary as aforsd forfeit and pay Tenn Thowsand poundes of Tobaccoe one halfe to their Maj.ties the other halfe to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered in any Court of Record w.thin this Province by bill plaint or Informacon wherin no Essoine ptecon or Wayer of Law to be Allowed Yett Neverthelesse the aforesd Isaac Caulk little regarding the Act of Assembly aforesd nor in any manner fearing the penalty in the sd Act contained after the Publishing the Act aforesd and before the exhibiting this Informacon that is to say att the house of the said Isaac Caulk on the North side of Chester River within the Jurisdicon of this Court the first day of April Anno Dom 1697 and continually after by the space of one whole month then next following hath |
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