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Acts. 477
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Impowered with the money or Tobacco ariseing by such Sale
or Sales to apply to the Vses in the said will appointed any
Law Statute Vsage or Custome or want of Authority so to do
by the words in the said Last will and Testament of the said
John Edmondson to the Contrary notwithstanding.
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Lib. L. L.
No. 64.
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Novr 10th 1709
Read and assented too by
the house of Delegates.
Signed p ordr
W Taylard Cik d
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Novr 10th 1709
IRead and assented too by her
Majtys honble Councill in Assembly
& Sign'd p ordr
W Bladen Cl Council.
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Novr the 11th 1709.
On the behalf of her most Sacred Majty Queen Anne of Great
Brittaine &c Wee Will this be a Law.
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Edwd Lloyd
Wm Holland
Will Coursey
Thos. Ennalls
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Tho: Greenfield
Cha Greenberry
John Hall
Wm Whittington
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An Act to reforme the ill practice of High Sherriffs within this
Province
Whereas Complaint hath been made to this Present Generall
Assembly that severall Sherriffs within this province being
indebted to severall of the Inhabitants thereof as well for
orders drawn on them for publick debts as for their private
debts will not discount the Same out of any publick or County
Leavy due to such Sherriffe but will Compell such person to
take and receive for such debt or debts indeffirent Tobacco in
remote and Inconvenient places and take the body or Goods
of such Persons in Execution with Intent to Extert from them
their best and finest Tobacco or some other Illegall and
Vnreasonable allowance or Sallary to the Great prejudice of
severall of the Inhabitants of this province for prevention
whereof Be it Enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majty by
and with the advice and Consent of her Majtys Councill and
Assembly of this province and the authority of the same that
if any high Sherriffe or high Sherriffs being Indebted to any
person or persons shall refuse to discount or allow the Same
out of any publick or County Leavy due from such person or
persons but will notwithstanding the same debt being due
from the Sherriffe take the body of such person in Execution
shall be Lyable to be prosecuted for false Imprisonment. And
in Case such Sherriffe do not take the body of such person in
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