352 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

pounds in the hundred for Tobacco or other goods & Comod-
itys as aforesaid shall be utterly void And that all & every per-
son and persons whatsoever which after the Time aforesaid
shall upon any Contract to be made take accept and receive
by ways or Means of any Corrupt Bargain Loane Exchange
Chivezance shift or Interest of any Wares Merchandizes or
other thing or Things whatsoever or by any Deceitfull Ways
or Means or by any Covin Instrument or Deceitfull Convey-
ance for the forbearance or giving day of payment for one
whole year of and for their mony Tobacco goods and Com-
oditys aforesaid above the Sume of mony or Quantity of To-
bacco aforesaid for the forbearance aforesaid shall forfeit and

p. 160

loose for every such Offence the treble value of the mony
Tobacco Wares Merchandizes or other things so lent bargain'd
sold exchang'd and shifted as aforesaid The one half of the
said ffine and fforfeiture to our sovereign Lady the Queen
her heires and Successors for the Support of this Govern-
ment the other half to him or them that shall sue far the same
to be recovered in any Court of Record of this Province by
Accon of Debt bill plaint of Information wherein no Essoyn
protection or wager of law to be allowed.

Sept^r 21^st 1704 September 21^st 1704

Read and Assented to by the Read and Assented to by her
house of Delegates. Ma^tys hon^ble Councill
W Taylard Clk hD W Bladen Cl Concil.

Maryland October 3^d 1704

On the behalf of her Ma^ty &c I will this be a Law.
Jo: Seymour

An Act ascertaining the Expences of the Councellors Dele-
gates of Assembly and Comissioners of the Provincial and
County Courts of this Province

For the ascertaining limitting and allowing unto the seve-
rall and respective Councellors Deputys and Delegates that
serve or shall serve in the Generall Assemblys of this Province
and of the severall and respective Comissioners of the Pro-
vincial and County Courts of this Province such Sum and
bums of Tobacco as is hereby thought necessary and Sufficient
for their Defraying their Charges in attending such Assem-
blys & Courts.
Be it enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent of her Ma^ties Gov^r Councill and
Assembly of this province and the Authority of the same that
all such Councillors be allowed the Sume of one hundred and