150 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4

Acts

the penalty of six Hundred pounds of Tobacco for every breeding
Mare by such person owned and kept, the One halfe of which Fines
to goe to her Majesty towards the defraying the County Charge
where such Offender shall reside the other halfe to the Informer or
him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered by Accon
of debt bill plaint or Informacon wherein noe Essoyn proteccon or
Wager of Law to be Allowed.
This Act to Continue for Three Yeares and to the End of the
Session of Assembly which shall first happen after the Three Yeares.

Acts of 1712,
ch. 5
p. 37

An Act for Regulateing Writts of Error and Granting Appeals from
and to the Courts of Comon Law in this Province

Forasmuch As the Liberty of Appeales and Writts of Error from
the Judgm^t of the Provinciall and County Courts of this Province
is found to be of great Use and Benifitt to the good of the people
thereof
Be it therefore Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Maj^ty by
and with the Advice and Consent of Her Maj^tys Presid^t Councill and
Assembly of this Province and the Authority of the Same That no
Execucon upon any Judgm^t Obtained either in the Provinciall or
County Courts or other Inferiour Courts of Record within this Prov-
ince shall be stayed or delayed or any Supersedeas upon such Judgm^t
granted or Issued forth upon any Appeale or Writt of Error from
any such Court or Courts of Record As aforesaid to the Court
before whome such Appeale ought to be brought or before whom
such Writt of Error ought to be heard and determined unlesse
such person or persons in whose name such Appeale or Writt of Error
shall be made or brought As aforesaid or some other in his her or
their behalfe shall imediately upon makeing such Appeale or sueing
out such Writt of Error As aforesaid Enter into Bond with suffi-
cient Sureties such As the Justices of the Court by whome Judgm^t
shall be given as af^d or the Keeper of the Seale for the Time being
to whome Applicacon shall be made for such Writt of Error as
aforesaid shall approve of in double the Sume Recovered by such
Judgm^t obtained As aforesaid with Condicon That if the party Ap-
pealant or party sueing out such Writt of Error As aforesaid shall
not pursue the direccons in this Act hereafter menconed at the next
Court Ensueing before whome such Appeale or Writt of Error ought
to be Tryed As aforesaid and prosecute the same with Effect, And
alsoe Satisfye and pay to the said party his Executors Admin^rs or
Assignes In Case the said Judgm^t shall be Affirmed As well All &
singular the debts damages and Costs Adjudged by the Court before
whom such Accon was first brought and from whose Judgm^t such
Appeale shall be made or thereon a writt of Error brought As afore-
said As alsoe All Costs and damages That shall be Awarded by the
Court before whome such Appeale or Writt of Error shall be heard