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914 Day of May att the Port of Annapolis in the Yeare of our Lord Christ 1695 Entituled an Act for regulating 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 Lycence first had and obtained Except all such persons as sett up and Keepe Ordinary or Ordinaries att the Port of Annapolis within the County of Ann Arundel shall for every Month he or they shall Keepe Ordinary as afore said 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 wherein noe Essoine Protection or Wager of Law to be Allowed Yet Neverthelesse the aforesaid Daniel Toaes little regarding the Act of Assembly aforsd nor in any Manner fearing the penalty in the aforesaid Act contained after the publishing the Act aforesd and before the day of Exhibiting this informacon that is to say att the house of the sd Daniel Toaes 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 presumptuously Kept an ordinary w.th out Lycence first had and obtained ag.t the forme of the sd Act of Assembly in that case made and Provided by doeing wherof the said Daniel Toaes hath forfeited and lost the sume of 10000.ll of Tobaccoe wherupon the aforesaid Richard Macklin who follows as well for the King as for himselfe prayes the advisem.t of the Court in the p.rmises and that he the said Richard may have the Moiety of the forfeiture aforesd according to the forme and effect of y.e same Act of Assembly as allsoe that the aforesd Daniel Toaes may come here into Court to Answer in and upon the p.rmises Macklin p Dom Rege & seip pled Jn.o Doe Ri Roe And the Defend.t in his proper ^person^ comes & defends the force and Injury when &c.a and prayes Oyer of the Original Writt Not Guilty p patriam Earle p Defd.t Toaes in p pria psona And the said Richard Macklin saith he is guilty Macklin |
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