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ment of Tillage the Inland Traders are obliged to receive all
the Debts due to them in Country Commodities: And a
Question being put whether the same be an Aggrievance is
Resolved in the Affirmative by Majority of Votes; and for
Remedy thereof it is Resolved That a Law obliging all Mer-
chants as well foreign as Inland to take good Merchantable
clean Tobacco at one Penny Sterling p Pound and Hemp at
6d Sterling p Pound in Discharge of all Money Debts due to
them either by Contract, Bill, Bond or protested Bill of Ex-
change or any other Way or Means whatsoever will be of
great Advantage to this Province: And therefore it is ordered
that the Committee of Laws on revising the Act about Tillage
insert a Clause in the said Act obliging all Creditors as well
foreign as Inland to accept of Tobacco at one Penny p Pound
and good well ordered clean Hemp at six Pence p lb Sterling
for all Money Debts due to them by any Way or Means
whatever provided that all the Debt be paid in any one of the
two said Commodities or either of them.
And the House having considered of that Part of the said
Report relating to Negroes gathering together in great
Numbers, Resolved That the Law relating to Servants and
Slaves sufficiently provides a Remedy for that Inconveniency.
And that Part of the said Report relating to the Commissary
General's Office being considered is referred to the Committee
of Laws, to insert a Clause for remedying the same in the
Act for Probat of Wills and granting Administrations. And
that Part of the Report relating to levying Fines and suffering
Common Recoveries being considered the House resolves
the same is an Aggrievance and that introducing such a
Practice tends to the Ruin of many in this Province.
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