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	shall be Sued or Prosecuted for the said Offence, the Onus Probandi shall lie on the Person Sued or Prosecuted, to make appear where he or they disposed of such Ammunition, Warlike Stores, or Provisions. And be it further Enacted, That Oath shall be made by the Master of every Vessel Clearing out, before the Naval-Officer of the Port respectively, to the whole Quantity of Ammunition, Warlike Stores, and Provisions of any Kind and Denomination whatsoever, laden on board such Vessel.	Liber H. S. No. i [The Onus Probandi to lie on the Person sued.] [Masters to make Oath.]
	This Act to continue until the last Day of August, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Seven.	[Continu- ance.]

	7th May 1757	On behalf of the Right	7th May 1757
	Read and assented to	Honourable the Lord	Read and assented to
	By the Lower house of	Proprietary of this Prov-	by the upper house of
	assembly	ince I will this be a Law	assembly
	Signed p order	Hor.o Sharpe	Signed p order
	MMacnemara Cl lo ho		JRoss Cl Up Ho
		The Great Seal
		in Wax app.t

I do hereby Certifie that Reverdy Ghiselin Clerk of the Provincial Court and Secretarys Office of the Province of Maryland, this Day Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Right Hon- ourable the Lord Proprietary of the Province aforesaid, his Council of State and made Oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he Carefully Examined the Laws Contained in this Book beginning at folio 305 and Ending at folio 335 with the Original Acts that Passed the Great Seal, Sworn to this twenty seventh day of September Anno Domini 1757 Rob :t Jenckins Henry. ©The Seal of the Provincial Court is hereunto Affixed on behalf of Benjamin Tasker junior Esquire Deputy Secre- tary of Maryland p Reverdy Ghiselin Clk of the Secretarys Office and Provincial Court.

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