302 Assembly Proceedings, March — April 1671.

P. R. O.

Colonial El
try Book
No. 53

habiting within this Province and having a Seated Plantacon as
aforesaid Shall have or Receive any Tobacco for any Quantity
of fflax or Hemp Soe Sowed or made as aforesaid vndr the
Quantity of one hundred pounds of Hemp or fflax And it is
ffurther Ordeined & Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That
if any pson or psons Soe Sowing and making Such fflax or
Hemp as aforesaid Shall not have Reaped or made the Quan-
tity of one hundred pounds of fflax or hemp as aforesaid and
that Buy or Borrow of any Person or psons whatsoever Such
and Soe much fflax or Hempp as may make vpp the Said Quan-
tity of one hundred weight thereby to Capacitate him to Ask
demand or Receive of or from the Said Com^rs of the Said
County Courts the Said Sume of One hundred pound of To-
bacco for Every hunds weight of fflax or hemp Such Buyer or
Seller And Every or any pson demanding Tobaccoes Att that
Rate for any fflax or hemp not by them or their Servants
Sowed and made as aforesaid vppon their owne Plantacons
shall for Every Such offence pay and fforfeit the Sume of one
Thousand pounds of Tobacco the One halfe to the Lord
Prop^rs and the other Moyty to him or them th^t shall Sue for the
Same in any Court of Record within this Province wherein no
Essoyne Protecon or wager of Law to be allowed.

An Act for the Paym^t of
the Publique Charge of the Province

Whereas there are Severall Sumes of Tobacco due to
Severall Persons from the Province as by accompt herevnto
annexed att Large appeareth Amounting in the whole to
Eighty Three Thousand nine hundred fforty Two pounds of
Tobacco as also Twenty One Thousand Two hundred and
Nine pounds of Tobacco To the Severall delegates from the
Severall Counties for th^r Severall Expenses att S^t Maries dur-
ing this Assembly besides what they have for their Boates or
other Necessary Expenses in Coming downe to the Assembly
Bee it Enacted By the Right Hono^ble the Lord Prop^rs by and
with the Advice & Consent of this p^rsent Generall Assembly
That the Said Sume of Eighty Three Thousand Nine hundred
fforty and Two pounds of Tobacco due as by accompt here-
vnto Annexed bee Levied by Equall Asessment vppon the
Persons and Estates of the Inhabitants of this Province and
paid vnto the Severall Persons and in pportions as in the
accompt herevnto Annexed as also the Said Sume of Twenty
One Thousand Two hundred & Nine pounds of Tobacco vppon
the Severall Counties and in the pporcons in the accompt here-
vnto Annexed To be paid to the Severall & Respective dele-
gates Serving in this Assembly for the Severall & Respective
Countyes in the Accompt Aforesaid Specified