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 shall be kept above the number of ten lunaticks, the sum of Fifteen Pounds, and no more; and that no one License shall authorise any person or persons to keep more houses than one for the reception of lunaticks, nor shall any such License be granted for any longer term than for one year; and the said Justices shall, at the time of granting such Licenses as aforesaid, nominate and appoint two Justices of the Peace for the said County, and also one Physician, to visit and inspect all such houses as shall be licensed by such Justices as aforesaid; and the said Justices and Physicians, so nominated and appointed, or any two of them, whereof the Physician to be one, may, and are hereby authorised and impowered to visit, in the day-time, every house so licensed, within the County where such house or place shall be so licensed, as often as they shall think fit.

And be it further enacted, That the said Justices and Physicians, so nominated, or such of them as shall visit any licensed house as aforesaid, may, at every visitation, if they think necessary, make, or cause to be made, minutes, in writing, of the state and condition of every house which they shall visit, as to the care of the patients therein, and all such other particulars as they shall think deserve their notice, together with their observations thereupon; all which minutes shall be entered, by way of report, in a Register to be kept for that purpose, by the Clerk of the Peace for the County where such house or houses shall be licensed as aforesaid, a copy whereof shall, from time to time, be sent by the said Clerk of the Peace to the Secretary to the said Commissioners, to be by him inserted in a separate Register; which Register shall be kept in the same box, and in the same manner, as the Register belonging to the said Commissioners is herein-before directed to be kept; and the said Clerk of the Peace shall be paid such sum and sums of money for his trouble in the execution of this Act as the said Justices shall order and direct; and all money to be paid for such Licenses as shall be granted by the said Justices of the Peace, as aforesaid, shall be paid to the Clerk of the