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of the same any Beeff Pork or Bacon shall pay unto his Sacred
Maty and his Successors for the use in this Act before men-
tioned and Expressed the Severall Imposts following (that is
to say) for dryed Beeff and Bacon twelve pence the hundred
weight & so proportionable for greater or lesser quantity and
for Beeff and Pork undryed twelve pence the Barrell each
Barrell to Conteine two hundred weight And that no undryed
Beeff and Pork be Exported out of this Province but in Casque
as af^d which said seVall Impositions shall be Collected and
Gathered by the said Severall and respective Navall Officers
who shall be accomptable for the same & have authority to
Enter any Ship or other Vessell as aforesaid and to make
search for every such Prohibited Goods as aforesaid in such
method and manner as in this Act is before mentioned &
Expressed and if any person whatsoever being non resident
as afores^d shall put on Board any Ship or Vessell any Beeff
Bacon or Pork for which he she or they shall not have a Cer-
tificate as aforesaid or that shall ship on Board any
Beeff or Pork undryed not being in cask as aforesaid
such person or persons so Offending shall forfeit and loose
all his her or their meat so shipped as aforesaid one
halfe to his said Maty and his successors to the use
aforesaid the other halfe to the Informer to be recovered as

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af^d and every Master of a Ship or other Vessell That shall
wittingly or knowingly take on Board his said Ship or Vessell
any Beeff Bacon or Porke Contrary to the true intent and
meaning of this Act being thereof Lawfully Convict shall for-
feitt and pay the sume of five Thousand pounds of Tobacco
one halfe thereof to his said Maty and his Successors for the
use and the other halfe to the Informer or him or them that
shall sue for the same to be recovered as aforesaid and for the
better understanding what persons shall be adjudged non
residents it hereby declared and Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid That all persons whatsoever Tradeing To and from
this Province shall be adjudged Deemed and taken as non
Residents not haveing a Seated plantation of fifty Acres att
the least whereon he or she with theire family (if any) have
resided for and dureing the space of one whole year and that
within the time and terme of twelve months before any benefitt
Claimed in and by Virtue of this Act or that hath or shall
hereafter have an house in some Porte or Town as his or their
proper ffreehold being fourty foot in Length and twenty foot
in breadth with two Brick Chimneys to the same wherein he
she or they shall have resided for and dureing the space of one
whole year as af^d and that no such person or persons Trading
to and from this Province haveing houses in any Town or
porte within the same whereby he she or they may Claime any