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CHAP.
XXIII. |
3 HENRY HARFORD, Esq;
lawful deputy, shall be found lacking one or more gallons of the quantity
numbered
or marked on the said cask or vessel, the aforesaid gauger shall forfeit
eight shillings current money for each gallon lacking or exceeding the
number or
mark so set down on each cask. |
Penalties,
how to be recovered
and
applied. |
V. And be it
further enacted, That all and every the penalties and forfeitures
in and by this act set and appointed, shall be applied, one half towards
defraying
the county charge, and the other half to the informer, or him or them that
will
sue or warrant for the same, if the said penalties do not exceed fifty
shillings current
money, to be recovered before one justice of the peace as in case of
small
debts, and if above fifty shillings, to be sued for and recovered in any
court of
record within this province. |
| Continuance. |
VI. This act to continue three years, and
to the end of the next session of assembly
which shall happen thereafter.
Continued for seven years, &c.
by the act of February, 1777, ch. 17; and by the act of 1784, ch. 83,
until the end of the next session. By the act of November, 1785,
it is again continued for seven years, &c. |
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CHAP. XXIV.
An ACT for the payment of the public creditors.
The creditors on the journal of accounts
of the present session, are to be paid out of that part of the last
emission which is subject to the disposal of the general assembly.
And for their trouble in making payments,
John Clapham, one of the commissioners, is allowed two hundred dollars,
William Eddis, the other
commissioner, is allowed one hundred dollars, and their clerk is allowed
two hundred dollars; and Robert
Couden, one of the late commissioners, is allowed one hundred dollars. |
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CHAP. XXV.
An ACT requiring the justices of Somerset county to appoint persons
to lay out a
road in said county.
Viz. through the forest to intersect
the main road leading from Princess-Anne to Snow-hill, at or near
Denston's dams. It is to be under the direction
of an overseer, who is to be appointed at the next court.
But the overseer is not to run through any improved or cultivated land,
without the permission of the
owner. |
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CHAP. XXVI.
An ACT for the relief of Henry Gassaway. PR. |
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CHAP. XXVII.
An ACT to prevent the erecting of booths and sale of liquors on holydays.
This act was made for three years.
It was continued for seven years, &c. by the act of February,
1777, ch. 17, and expired with the session of 1784. |
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CHAP. XXVIII.
An ACT for the relief of insolvent debtors. |
Persons remaining
in
prison twenty
days, to petition
three justices
for their
discharge, &c. |
BE it enacted,
by
the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and with the advice
and consent of his governor, and the upper and lower houses of assembly,
and the authority of the same, That if any person, who shall
after the
first day of October next be committed or charged in execution, or for
want of
special bail, at any time after he or she shall have actually remained
in prison, by
the space of twenty days on such commitment or charge, shall petition any
three
justices of the peace of the county wherein such prisoner shall be detained
as aforesaid,
for his or her discharge, such justices shall thereupon appoint a time
for their
meeting, not less than thirty days nor exceeding forty days thereafter,
at the court-house
for said county or gaol in which he or she shall be so detained, for his
or
her discharge, and their said appointment shall certify in writing to the
sheriff in
whose custody he or she shall be; and the same sheriff shall, twenty days
at the
least before the time appointed for the said meeting, affix one copy of
the said certificate
at the door of the county clerk's office, and another copy thereof at the
prison
door of his county; at which said day so to be appointed, the sid justices,
or
two of them, as well as the sheriff, are required to attend at the court-house
or
prison aforesaid, and the sheriff shall produce the body of such prisoner
before the
justices who shall attend, and also make known to the same justices the
cause or
causes of his or her imprisonment, and the time he or she hath been actually
imprisoned |
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