350 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

warden who upon application made by an Informer shall
without Lawfull Excuse or Impediment refuse or delay to
performe w' is by this Act required of them the Justice or
Officer soe refusing shall fforfeit and pay the sume of ten shil

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for Every hhd soe by him refused to be Viewed to the Use of
such Informer to be recovered as Last before mentioned.
And be itt further Enacted by the Authority afd that no
person or persons whatsoever after such hogshead or hogs-
heads of Tob^o Marked with the broad Arrow as afd and before
View thereof by any officer as afd shall presume to remove
alter or Change any hhd so marked as afd or the Tob^o therein
soe as to avoid the Justice of this Act nor after View and
Condemnation in manner afd shall presume to alter Change
or anywise Meddle wth such Condemned hhd or hhds of Tob^o
without Leave or Lycence from such Informer under penalty
or fforfeiture for Every hhd of Tob^o soe removed altered or
Changed as afd the sume of twelve hundred pounds of Tob^o
to the Use of such Informer to be recovered in any County
Court within this province by Action of Debt bill plaint or
Information wherein no Essoyne protection or wager of Law
to be Allowed — Provided always that nothing in this Act
Contained shall Extend or be Construed to Extend to the
repealing abrogateing or disannulling the Act of Assembly
made att a session of Assembly begun and held att Annapolis
the twenty third day of October Anno Domini Seventeen
hundred and Eleven Entituled An Act ascertaining the gauge

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of Tob^o hhds. And to prevent Cropping Cutting and Deface-
ing Tob^o taken on board shipps and Vessells upon ffreight or
any ways to take away and Lessen the Effect thereof but that
the same in all respects shall be and Continue in force before
the twenty ninth day of September next but that the said
recited Act shall remaine till then in full force and no Longer.
And be itt further Enacted that if any person or persons
shall after the end of this Session of Assembly pay or tender
to pay any pack't hogshead of Tob^o whereof the full weight
of the empty hogshead or the full weight within five pounds
is not Cutt or Mark't on the bulge of such hhd and be thereof
Convict in Manner afd he or they so Convict in Manner afd
shall forfeit for Every such hhd or hhds not having the weight
sett thereon as afd the Sume of Six hundred pounds of Tob^o
the one halfe thereof to our Sovereigne Lord the king his
heirs and Successors Towards the defraying the Charge of
the County where such Offence shall be Comitted the other
halfe to the Informer or to him or them that shall sue for the
same to be recovered in such County Court by Action of
Debt bill plaint or Information wherein no Essoyne protection