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of any other Person whatsoever, even although such Boun-
dary or Bounded Trees should stand within the Person's
own Land so cutting down and destroying the same, under
the Penalty of Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for every
Offence; the one Half to the Informer, or to him or them
that shall sue for the same, the other Half to the Use of Free-
Schools in the County where the Offence is committed.
III. And be it also further Enacted, That if any Person
or Persons whatsoever, shall, without lawful Authority,
either at Random, or for their own Pleasure, presume to
Bound any Tree or Trees in the Woods, or upon their own
Lands, or that shall Bound any Tree or Trees, or set up
other Boundaries for their own or others Land, in lieu and
place of any original Boundary or Bounded Tree that is any
way decayed or destroyed, without first giving Notice to all
Persons concerned in such Boundaries, of the Time and Place
proposed for setting up or making such new Boundary, or that
upon the Failure of the Persons concerned in such Lands
(upon Notic'e, or when Notice cannot be given) being present
at the Time and Place appointed, shall not take with him
Four substantial Freeholders of his Neighbourhood at the
least, that may be present at the Bounding such Tree or Trees,
or setting up such other Boundary, shall forfeit for every
Time he, she or they shall be convicted thereof, the Sum of
Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco; the one Half to the In-
former, or to him or them that shall sue for the same, the
other Half to the Use of Free-Schools in the County where the
Offence is committed: All which Fines to be recovered in
his Lordship's Name, in any Court of Record within this
Province, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information,
wherein no Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law shall be
allowed.
IV. And be it further Enacted, That in all Prosecutions
against any of the Offenders aforesaid, the Attorney-General,
or Clerk of Indictments, in their Indictments or other Pro-
ceeding's, shall be as particular as possible in describing the
Place upon, or to whose Lands the Boundaries relate, which
have been made, so set up, or destroyed, contrary to the true
Intent of this Act.
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Chap. X
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A further Supplementary Act to the Act for the better Ad-
ministration of Justice in Testamentary Affairs, granting
Administrations, recovery of Legacies, securing Filial Por-
tions and Distribution of Intestates Estates.
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
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