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had ever Satisfaction made him for the within Lands, we

Cannot find that he had: therefore Referr the further Inspec-
tion and Consideration thereof to your House
Signed p Order. John Beale Cler. Upper Ho.

Which being Read was Referred till Monday next.
James Stoddart Esq^r from the Committee Especially Ap-
pointed Returns the following Report Viz :

July the 21^st 1721.
By the Committee appointed to Consider of proper Schemes
for a Law to Relieve the Tobacco Trade

I^st It is Offered to the Consideration of the House, if a
Clause for Amending the Quality of Tobacco is not Necessary
Viz: that no Tobacco after the Tenth day of October next
shall be packt up in Order to be Shipped and Exported out of
this province by any person whatsoever, or paid or tendered
to be paid either in Casque or otherwise to Merchants or
Others; or shall be stem'd in Order to be Ship^t or Sold by any
Person whatsoever, other than what is in good Condition and
of a Clear and Clean Leaf free from Ground Leaves Frost
bitten Leaves or Trashey Leaves or otherwise Damnified
Leaves whatsoever that shall Exceed the Quantity of five
pounds of Tobacco in any one Hogshead of Tob^o under the
Penalty of the Sum of five hundred pounds of Tob for every
Time they shall be Convicted thereof one half to the Informer
and the other half for the Benefit of a Publick School in the
Respective County where such Person so Convicted Inhabits
to be Recovered &c
2^dly That Every Person making any Tobacco within any of
the Countys within this province shall reserve in Some Place
of his Tobacco Houses yearly after the tenth day of October
aforesaid all the Tobacco made on his Plantation that is not
of the qualifications aforesaid Until he has finished that year's

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Crop which he shall be Obliged to Do by the first day of
in and when any Crop is so finished, that the Owner
thereof give due Notice to the Constable of the Hundred
where he Lives That such Constable Come within Days
to see such Unqualified Tobacco burnt. Which Constable shall
be Obliged to see it done in his Presence for which Services
for all within his Respective Hundred the Constable of Each
Hundred shall be allowed in the County Levy the Sume of
pounds of Tob^o p Annum and that the Constable Neg-
lecting his Duty herein shall be fined for every such Neglect
the sume of pounds of Tob^o to be Recovered and Ap-