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Provided Nevertheless, That if any of the Persons appointed to
put this Act in Execution, be hinder'd by Sickness, or other extra-
ordinary Accident, which he could not prevent, and make the same
appear to the County-court, that he shall not he liable to any of the
Penalties contain'd in this Act.
And for the Encouragement of the Persons nominated and ap-
pointed as aforesaid, for examining and numbering the Plants of
Tobacco, and for cutting up and destroying Tobacco-stalks, Slips,
and Suckers, in Pursuance of this Act,
Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall be
levied on the Taxable Persons in each County, (during the Con-
tinuance of this Act.) Five Pounds of Tobacco for every Seven
Thousand Plants, and porportionably for a lesser or greater Quan-
tity, which shall be tended and left standing within the said County,
to be distributed to the respective Persons appointed by this Act, to
view and number the Plants of Tobacco, in Proportion to the Num-
ber of Plants viewed and numbered by them in their respective Pre-
cincts: Which said Levy of Five Pounds of Tobacco, the Court of
each County within this Province, is hereby impowered and required
to assess on the Taxable Inhabitants; and the Sheriff, or other Col-
lector of the County Levy, to pay the several Persons to whom the
same shall be due, in the Parish wherein they respectively reside;
unless such Person shall be content to take the same in some other
Parish within the County. And for every Hundred of Tobacco-
stalks, which shall have any Sucker or Slip growing thereon, of the
Height of Nine Inches from the Ground, which such Person or Per-
sons shall so cut up and destroy, there shall be paid to him or them,
by the Owner of such Tobacco-stalks, or his or her Overseer, Twenty
Pounds of Tobacco, and so porportionably for a lesser Quantity; to
be recovered with Costs, before any Justice of the Peace of the
County wherein the said Tobacco-stalks shall be so cut up.
And for the better Direction of the Persons appointed for num-
bering the Plants of Tobacco,
Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Two Persons
nominated and sworn in each Precinct, shall jointly repair to the
several Plantations, and there take the Number of Tobacco-plants,
by counting the several Plants contained in every respective Piece
of Tobacco-ground in the best Manner, and by such Methods and
Rules, as in their Judgment may best discover the true Quantity,
having Regard to regular and irregular Pieces of Tobacco-ground.
And if at any time hereafter, any more Plants of Tobacco than
are hereby allowed, shall by the Persons appointed to view and
number the same, as aforesaid, be found planted or tended, on any
Plantation or Plantations, whatsoever, the Owner or Overseer of
such Plantation, shall immediately, in the Presence of the Person or
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