they shall be sold at an outcry and distributed equally among
all the Creditors inhabiting within the province (except that
the meere & proper Debts of the Lord proprietarie shall be
first Satisfied & then fees & duties to publique officers &
charges & that debts for wine and hot waters be not Satisfied
till all other debts be paid)
Every person planting Tobacco shall plant & tend two acres
of Corne
All Tobaccos shipped out of the province (except to England
Ireland or Virginia) shall pay a custome of five in the hundred
The Leivtent Generall & Secretary (or his Deputie) and
Gentlemen Summoned by Speciall writt & one or two Bur-
gesses out of every hundred (at the choice of the freemen) at any
time hereafter Assembled shall be judged a Generall Assembly
All Commissions From or under the Lord proprietarie wch
shall be in force at his death shall remain in the same force
untill a new Commissn for the Governmt published under the
great Scale Any bargain with the Leivtent Generall & Councell
shall make with any undertaker for the setting up of a water
mill for the use of the Colony shall be levied upon all inhabi-
tants of the Colony in Such manner as the Leivtent Generall
& Councell shall appoint so it exceed not ten thousand weight
of Tobacco in a Yeare for two years only This Act to endure
till the end of the next generall Assembly or (if such generall
assembly be not sooner called) for three years only
The freemen have assented
The Lord proprietarie willeth that this be a Law
verum recordum
John Lewger Secretary
March 19th 1638
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