A Supplementary act to the act, entitled, * An act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts, when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees, due from criminal persons.

CHAP. VI.

• 1715, ch. 26.

FOR preventing all doubts for the future, BE IT ENACTED, AND DECLARED, by the right honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the authority of the same, That all legal fees which have arisen, and are not already otherwise paid and allowed, or which shall hereafter arise on the prosecution of any negro, or other slave, in any county court, whether such slave be con­victed or acquitted, shall be chargeable to, and paid by the respective county where such prosecution shall be had, and assessed in the county levy of such county.