470 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692.

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

Person whatsoever shall notwithstanding such disposure or
payment secure and keep the said Tobacco as he would do
his own proper goods for and during the space of a whole
year commencing from the time of receiving the Tobacco
aforesaid and no longer Provided allways that nothing in this
Act conteined shall be construed meant or intended to make
any Inhabitant or house keeper lyable to any damage which
shall happen to any Tobacco so left with him, to keep and
secure through any Casualty whatsoever. And be it further
Enacted by the authority aforesaid by and with the advice and
consent aforesaid, that every Inhabitant or housekeep^r as
aforesaid, which shall not build fitt up and make ready such
house or houses as aforesaid upon their respective Plantations
for the uses and by this time lifnitted as afores^d shall forfeit
and pay the sume of Five hundred pounds of Tobacco in
Cask, the one half to their Majes^ty for support of Governm^t the
other to the Informer or him or them that shall sue for the
same, to be recov^rd in any Court of Record w^thin this Province,
wherein no Essoyn Protection or wager of Law to be allowed,
This Act to continue for three years or to the end of the next
Generall Assembly w^ch shall first happen.
June 4th 1692 . June 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board. The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r have assented
John Llewellin Signed p Ord^r
Clk. Hen: Denton Clk.

p. 79

An Act impowering Comission^rs of the County
Courts to leavy and raise Moneys to defray the
necessary charges of their Countyes.

Forasmuch as in the Intervalls of Assemblys in this Prov-
ince there have been severall Necessary Charges laid out and
Expended in the Severall and respective Counties of this
Province by the severall and respective Commission^rs of the
said Counties and others for the Good welfare and Conserva-
tion of the Peace and within the said Counties and which
ought to be borne by the severall and respective County's
distinctly, and have been formerly used and accustomed to be
reimbursed defrayed paid and satisfied by and out of the
county Leavy Leavyed and assessed by the Commissioners of
the said respective County's by an Equall Assessment upon
the Estate and Persons of the Inhabitants of the said severall
and respective Counties, but the said Comissioners of the said
County Courts not hav^g sufficient Warrant and authority to
raise such Leavy Be it Enact^d by their most Excellent Majestys
by and with the advice & consent of this Generall Assembly