146 Assembly Proceedings, March 26-April 15, 1707.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majesty by and
with the advice and Consent of her Majesty's Governour Coun-
cill and Assembly of this province & the Authority of the same
that from and after the publication hereof all Planters Merchants
Factors and others having property or Disposall of any Tobac-
coes in the upper parts of this province and who shall pmit suffer
or Connive at Carrying the same out of their houses Custody
or possession in order to be Rowled or Carted over Land into
the province of Pensilvania or territory's thereunto belonging
before such Pson intending to Carry away the same produce
unto such Planter Factor or Merchant haveing the property
or disposall thereof an Authentick Certificate under the hand
and Scale of the officer or officers of the district importing the
place where the tobacco lyes and of whom the same was bought
and that all the duty's payable upon the Exportation of Tob<sup>o

out of one plantation into another are answered unto such
officer or officers such pson so pmiting suffering or Conniving
at the Carting or Rowling such Tobacco and the owner pur-
chaser pson Rowling or Carting and their assisters and abettors
or any of them shall for every hogshead or for every four</sup>

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hundred pounds of Tobacco so Carryed or Designed to be
Carryed as afd and prorato for a greater or lesser quantity
forfeit the sume of tenn pounds Sterling one half thereof to
him her or those that shall informe or sue for the Same the
other half to her Maj^ty for support of Government to be Re-
covered in any of the Courts of Record within this Province,
haveing Jurisdiction of the sume forfeit by bill plaint action of
Debt or information wherein no Essoyn protection or wager
of Law to be allowed:

Aprill the 9^th 1707. Read and assented to by the house of
Delegates. Signed p order W Taylard Cl h D.

Aprill 10^th 1707. Read and assented to by her Maj^tys
hon^rble Councill & Signed p order W Bladen Cl Council.

Aprill 15^th 1707. On the behalf of her Maj^ty Queen Anne
of England &c. I will this be a Law. Jo. Seymour

An Act for Suspending dureing the Queens pleasure the pros-
ecution of the Priests of the Romish Communion Incurring
the penaltys of the Act to prevent the growth of popery in
this province by Exercising their Function in a private Family
of the Roman Communion but in no other Case whatsoever.

Whereas at a Sessions of Assembly begun and held at the
Town & Port of Annapolis the fifth day of September in the