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220 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1669.
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P. R. O.
Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53
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the Said Comir? are hereby impowered to appoynt Overseers
Leavy Tobacco or Labor Equally to be Essessed vpon the
Taxables of each Respective County to Carry on the said
worke to be begunn or to Repaire the High waies already
begunn or made
Provided that this Act shall not be to the Apparent damage
of any pticular pson by making or marking any High way or
path through his yard Garden Orchard or Cornefeild & vpon
neglect of the said Comissionr for appointing Overseers &
pviding Laborers for the prformance of the Said worke they
shal be ffined ffower Thowsand pounds of Tobacco in Cask &
Every Overseer Soe appointed by the Comrs who shall Refuse
or neglect the prformance of his duty in his Charge shall be
ffined Two Thousand pounds of Casked Tobacco & Every
Laborer who shall Refuse or neglect his Labor shall be ffined
one Thousand pounds of Casked Tobacco the one halfe of
those ffines to the Lord Proprietary and the other halfe to the
informer or him or them tht shall Sue for the Same ffine or
ffines to be Recovered in any Cors of Record wthin this Pro-
vince by Bill Plaint or otherwise wherein noe Essoyne Pro-
tection or wager of Law to bee allowed This Act to continue
for Three yeares or to the End of the next Gene- Assembly
wch shall ffirst happen
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An Act for Paymt of money debts with Tobacco
Whereas it is manifest by dayly Experience that the Inhabi-
tants of this Province are Constrayned & doe dayly Contract
for debts payable in money and the Scarcity of money in this
Province being such tht it is not possible for the Inhabitants
to make paymt in kind whereby the Creditor taking advant-
age of the Same doe Compell the Inhabitants to wt Composi-
tion & they please to the great damage & Sometimes to the
vtter Ruine of the debtor Be it therefore Enacted by the
Right Honoble the Lord Proprietary by & with the Advice &
Consent of the vpper & Lower house of this prsent Genll As-
sembly and the Authority of the Same That all & Every pson
and psons whatsoever within this Province that have hereto-
fore or shall hereafter Contract any debts payable in money itt
shall & may be Lawfull to & for the pson or psons soe Con-
tracting for the Same to satisfie his Creditr or Creditors for the
same in Tobacco att the Rate of Three halfe pence sterling by
the pound of Tobacco
And it is Likewise ffurther by the Authority aforesaid or-
deyned & Enacted tht the Credr shall be bound Soe to accept
the Same vndr the Penaltie tht hee or they tht shall Refuse
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