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

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pounds of Tobbacco and the s^d Master for every Servant
warned and not sent one hundred Pounds of Tobbacco and
the Clerk of the County is hereby obliged to issue out War-
rants to the Overseer appointed upon Penalty of one Thou-
sand pounds of Tobbacco and the Sherriffs of each respective
Countys are to deliver the same to the Severall & respective
Overseers so appointed as aforesaid ex Officio on Penalty of
one Thousand pounds of Tobbacco in Cask the one halfe of
all w^ch fines shall be Imployed and disposed of Towards the
Defraying the County Charge in such Maner as the Comis-
sioners of each respective County shall in their discretion
think Convenient the other halfe to him or them that shall
informe or sue for the same to be recov^red in his Ma^tys Name
for the use aforesaid by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court
of Record within this Province wherein no Essoyn protection
or wager of Law to be Allowed And that all the Roads that
lead to any fferrys Court house or to any Church or leading
through any County to the Porte of Annapolis shall be marked
on both sides the Road with two Notches if the Road leads to
Annapolis the Road that leads there att the leaving the other
Road shall be marked on the face of the Tree in a Smooth
place Cut for that purpose with the Letters A. A: set on with
a Pair of Marking Irons and Coloured and so with two
Notches all along the Road and where att any place it leaves
any other Road shall be againe Distinguished with the Mark
aforesaid on the face of the tree with the paire of Marking
Irons and Coloured as afores^d and any Road on the Eastern
Shoar in Talbott County that leads to the Port of William
Stadt at the Entring into the same and upon parting with or
Dividing from any other Road shall be marked on the Face
of a Tree in a Smooth place Cut for that purpose with the

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Letter W and so with two Notches all Along the Road and
the Roads that leads to any County Court house shall have
Two Notches on the Trees on both sides the Road as afore-
said and another knotch a distance above the other two any
Road that leads to a Church shall be knocked att the Entrance
into the Same and at the leavying any other Road with a Slip
Cutt down the face of the tree near the Ground and any Road
leading to fferry and Dividing from other publick Roads shall
be marked with three Notches of Equall Distance at the
Entrance into the same and these Rules and Methods the
severall Justices of the County Courts shall from time to time
give in Charge to the Overseers of the high ways by them to
be appointed for th^t purpose who are likewise enjoyned Care-
fully and Strictly to observe and performe the same under the
Penalty afores^d and where any Road shall lead through any
Seated Plantation or old fields Be it Enacted by the Authority