Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June g, 1692. 439

payment of the said duty or Imposition accordingly Provided
allways and it is the true intent and meaning hereof, that this
Act nor any thing herein conteyned, shall be adjudged con-
strued reputed or taken to disanull or make void his Lord-
ships Right to the other moyety of the said two shillings p hh^d
to be paid in consideration of his Rents and alienacon money
in Tobacco at two pence p pound during the terme of his
naturall life (but that the same be kept & hereby preserved to
his Lordship in as full and ample manner as by the said Law
is expressed or intended or in the least to discharge his Lo^p
for receiving the Rents aforesaid at 2^d p^t as by the said Act is
enjoyned during also the terme of his naturall life nor to dis-
charge his Lordship from accounting for the Arr^rs of one shil
p h^d for supporting of the Gov^rm^ts and finding Arms &
Amunition, but th^t he be obliged to all the Matt^rs & things
as fully and strongly as if the said Law were in full force.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
every Master of a ship or Vessell as aforesaid at the time
of his clearing, shall upon Oath declare the quality and quan-
tity of his loading, and that the Navall Officer by the Governor
aforesaid for the time being shall and is hereby impowered to

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administer the said Oath, and in case the said Master shall
refuse the said Oath or upon suspition of having goods on
board for which he hath not cleared, it shall be Lawfull for the
said Navall Officer to Enter on board any such ship or Vessell,
the same to search for any such Goods as aforesaid any thing
in this Act before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.
June 7^th 1692. June the 6^th 1692
Assented to at the Councill Board. The house of Assembly
Signed p Order have assented
W Taylard Clk Assist^t Signed p Ord^r
Hen Denton Clk.

An Act against Divulgers of false News.

Whereas many Idle and busy headed People do forge and
divulge false rumours and Reports to the great disturbance of
the Peace of Our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and
Queen and their liege people of this Province. Be it Enacted
by the King and Queens most Excellent Majestys by and with
the Advice and consent of this present Generall Assembly &
the Authority of the same, that what person or persons soever
shall forge or devulge any false reports tending to the trouble
of this Province that he or they shall be by the next Justice of
the Peace sent for & bound over to the next County or the

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Provinciall Court where if the thing related be materiall and
that he produce not his Author being legally convict thereof,

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