104 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 20-Oct. 18, 1694.

Lib. L. L. 2.

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Kock Brune John de Vagha Herman van Burkelo Nicholas de
lamontaigne Hendrick Sluyter and Jacob Sluiter Junior
Be it enacted by the King and Queen's most Excellent
Maties by and with the Advice and Consent of this present
Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same That Peter
Ferdinando, Winifrid, Elizabeth, Mary, and Ann Daughters of
the said Peter Andrew Imbert, Claudius Dutitree, Gerardus
Wessells and James his son, Abraham Ambros and Abraham
his sonn Lewis deKock Brune John de Vagha Herman Van
Burkelo Nicholas de la Montagne Hendrick Sluyiter and
Jacob Sluyter Junior and all and every of them shall from
henceforth be adjudged reputed and taken as naturall borne
People of this Province And th' they and every of them by the
Authority aforesaid be Enabled and adjudged to all Intents
and Purposes to Demand Challenge ask have hold and enjoy
any Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments to which
they might in any wise be Intituled as if they were free and
naturall borne People and Subjects & also that they and every
of them shall and may be Enabled to prosecute maintaine and
avow and Justify and Defend all maner of Actions suits pleas
plaints and other Demands whatsoever as liberally, ffrankly
fifreely fully Lawfully and securely as if they and every of them
had been naturall borne people or Subjects any Law Statute
usage or Custom to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

An Act touching Coopers and the Gage of Tobbaco Hogs-
heads
Be it Enacted by the King and Queen's most Excell^t Maties
by and with the Advice and Consent of this present Generall
Assembly and the Authority of the same That all Tobbacco

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hogsheads that shall hereafter be made within this Province
shall be of the seize of fourty eight inches in length and thirty
Two inches in the head and not under the size of fourty six
inches in length and Thirty one inches in the head And That
what Cooper or Coopers or other person or persons That
shall make Tobbacco Hogsheads and do not observe the
Gage aforesaid shall forfeitt the s^d Cask and upon Complaint
thereof made the matter of fact being proved by two good and
Sufficient Evidences it shall and may be Lawfull for the Jus-
tices of that respective County Court where such person or
persons do inhabit to give Judgem^t thereupon to the party or
partys grieved and That any Cooper or Coopers person or
persons whatsoever that shall agree with any the Inhabitants
of this Province and undertake with him or them to sett up or
make his or their Tobbacco Hogsheads and Casques shall and
are hereby Enjoyned to sett up and finish one halfe of the
said Tobbacco Hogsheads and Casks by the Tenth day of