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

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Assessm^t by the poll upon the Taxable psons in the severall
County's of this province
And for the more Easy and better Carrying Tobacco to or
from any Towns Ports or Publick Landings in this province
on board any Ship or Vessell or from one Port or Town to
another within this Province,
Be it Enacted that it shall and may be Lawfull to and for
any Person or Psons whatsoever to take on board any open
boate or Vessell being Eighteen foot or under by the Keel
any Tobacco and transport the same from one Landing Town
or Port to another or from any Port or Town on board any
Ship or Vessell within this province without any pmit to be
Taken for The same from any the Navall officers or Collectors
of This province and if any Tobacco shall be Shipt of from
any Landing Town or Port within this province in order to
be Carryed to another port or Town or on board any Ship
or Vessell within this province in any open boat Sloop Shallop
or other Vessell being above Eighteen foot by the Keel the
owner or master of such open Sloop Shallop boat or Vessell
shall give Security to the Navall officers in the sume of forty

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pounds Ster. not to Carry the same out of this province and
shall be obliged to take and the Navall officer to give a yearly
pmitt to such Sloop Shallop boat or Vessell for the same for
which yearly pmit the Navall officer shall take and receive for
his fee the sume of two Shillings and six pence & no more.
And be it further Enacted that the Standard of weights and
measures appointed to be kept in the severall Countys of this
province shall from and after the first day of September one
Thousand Seven hundred and Eight be kept at such Towns
in the severall Countys of this province where the Court house
of the said County shall be built which shall always be at such
Town as is nearest the Center of the County and most Con-
venient for The Inhabitants of the severall Countys of This
province (except only where the Court houses are appointed
by this act) and that no pson or psons whatsoever useing any
measures or weights shall presume to sell any Comodites
whatsoever by such weights or measures or receive any
Tobacco by any Stiliards without Trying Them with the
standard before they make use thereof according to the
Direction of The Act of Assembly Intituled An Act relateing
to the Standard of English weights and measures and incuring
the penaltys by the said Act Imposed.

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And forasmuch as many of the Inhabitants of this province
Live remote from Towns and Cannot Get their Tobacco
thither or Weighty Goods from thence but by water Carriage,
Be it Enacted that the severall and respective Comissioners
appointed for laying out of Towns within the severall Countys