Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 469

repaires or Supplyes the Vestrymen and Church Wardens
thereof shall Apply themselves to the Justices of the County
Court att the time ot the laying the County Leavy who upon
the necessity appearing to them shall and are hereby Impow-
ered to raise by an Equall Assessment by the Poll on the In-
habitants of such respective parish such sums of Tobbacco as
by the said Justices shall be adjudged necessary to Supply the
occasions afores^d over and above the County Leavy not Ex-
ceeding the sume of Tenn pounds of Tobbacco p pol. in one
year which Sume so raised shall be Collected and Gathered by
the Sherriffe of the same County & paid to the Vestrymen of
such respective parish or parishes who shall att the next County
leavy or Sooner if they Can give a true Acc^t to the said
Justices how and for what they have laid out and bestowed the
said Tobbacco so raised any Law Statute or usage to the Con-
trary in any wise Notwithstanding this Act to Endure three
years or to the end of the next Sessions of Assembly which
shall first happen after the end of the three Years.

Lib. L. L.

An Act for Appeals & Regulating Writts of Error.

Forasmuch as the Liberty of Appeals & Writts of Error
from the Judgem^t of the Provinciall & County Courts of this
Province is found to be of great use & benefitt to the good
People thereof Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most
Excellent Maty by & with the Advice and Consent of this
present Generall Assembly & the Authority of the Same
That no Execution upon any Judgement obteined either
in Provinciall or County Courts or other Inferior Courts
of Record within this Province shall be Stayed or delayed
or any Supersedeas upon such Judgem^t granted or issued
forth upon Appeal or Writt or Error from any such Court
or Courts of Record af^d to the Court before whom such
Appeale ought to be brought or before whom such Writt
of Error ought to be heard tryed and Determined unless
such person or persons in whose name such Appeale or Writt
of Error shall be made or brought as af^d or some other in his
her or theire behalfe shall Imediately upon making such
Appeale or Sueing out such Writt of Error as afors^d Enter
into Bond with Sufficient Securitys such as the Justices of the
Court by whom Iudgem^t shall be given as aforesaid or the
Keeper of the Seale for the time being to whom Application
shall be made for such Writt of Error as aforesaid shall approve
of in doubte the sume recovered by such IudgnV obteined as

p. 188

afores^d with Condition that if the party Appellant or party
sueing out such Writt of Error as aforesaid shall not

p. 189