Page images
PDF
EPUB
[graphic]

table and tippling house, booth or tent, within the ju- Fines on bil risdiction of the corporation; and to demand reasona liard tables, ble fees for every ordinary licence within the same, ses, &c tippling hou over and above those established for raising a revenue; Tax on ordiand to expel disorderly persons who shall not have mary licences. been resident therein for twelve months. That all acts Common herein directed to be done by the mayor, recorder, al- Hall, how dermen, and common council, shall be done by them constituted, when assembled in common hall, when seven members ed; its pow. and conven shall be present, of which the mayor, recorder, or el- ers. dest alderman, shall be always one. They shall meet upon the summons of such mayor, or in his absence, sickness, or disability, of the recorder; or in the ab sence, sickness, or disability of both mayor and recorder, then of the eldest aldermansva

III. And be it enacted, That the mayor, recorder, Court of hus and aldermen, or any four or more of them, shall have tings-juris power to hold a court of bustings on the first Wednesdiction. day in every month. The jurisdiction of such court shall relate to those cases, which originate within the limits of the said town, and shall be the same as the jurisdiction of the county court as established by the act of the general assembly, intituled, An act for es tablishing county courts, and regulating the proceeding therein, except in the following instances, the said court shall not hear and determine any penal case, unless it be for a breach of laws of the corporation, the penalty whereof does not exceed forty shillings, or two hundred pounds of crop tobacco; nor of any ac tion beyond the value of ten pounds, or one thousand pounds weight of crop tobacco, unless it be in ejectment. The said court shall have the further power of examining and trying criminals for all offences com- Criminal ca mitted within the limits of the said corporation, either at their monthly sessions or in the vacation, in the Exclusive same manner as the county courts can or may do by power of li law. The said court shall have the sole power of censing ta licencing tavern-keepers, and settling their rates; ap- and fixing poing a clerk of the market; establishing an assize of their rates; bread, wine, wood, coal, and other things; and also appointing appointing a serjeant, who shall have the power of a market; estasheriff; constables, and other necessary officers of the blishing as court, and surveyors of the streets; and any other size of bread, officers, not specially directed in this act to be ap appointing pointed by any other power. The same fees shall be constables, VOL. X. Y 2

[graphic]
[graphic]
[graphic]
[graphic][subsumed]
[graphic]

An act to exempt Quakers from attending musters.

1. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all Quakers ex the people called quakers are hereby exempted from at- empted from attending tending private or general musters in their respective musters.

[ocr errors]
« PreviousContinue »