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Persons appointed to examine and number the same, cut up, or cause
to be cut up and destroyed, so many Plants as shall exceed the Num-
ber herein before allowed, in such Place or Places of the said To-
bacco grounds, as the said Owner or Overseer shall think fit. And
in case the Owner or Overseer of any such Plantation, shall refuse
and fail so to do, the said Persons so appointed to examine and
number, as aforesaid, be and are hereby impowered and required to
cut up, or cause the same to be cut up and destroyed; and shall have
and receive as a Reward for so doing, Twenty Pounds of Tobacco,
for every Hundred Plants of Tobacco that shall be so cut up and
destroyed by them; to be paid by the Owner or Overseer of such
Plantation where such Offence shall be committed; and upon due
Proof thereof, made by the Oaths of the Persons appointed as afore-
said, shall and may be recovered before any Justice of the Peace of
the County where such Offence shall be committed. And the Per-
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sons so to be appointed to examine and number as aforesaid are
hereby required to make a true Report of their Proceedings, and
Number of Plants on each Plantation, in their respective Precincts,
to the Clerk of the Court for that County wherein the said Precincts
respectively lie, on or before the Tenth Day of August Yearly.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That each
Person so appointed and sworn, to examine and number Tobacco-
Plants, and to cut up and destroy Stalks, Slips, and Suckers, as
aforesaid, failing to make such Report of their Proceedings, as
aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
for every such Offence: And if the said Persons so appointed to
examine and number, and to cut up and destroy Stalks, Slips, and
Suckers, as aforesaid, shall (knowingly) allow any Person whatso-
ever, to plant or tend, on his or her Plantation, any more Plants of
Tobacco than are herein and hereby before allowed, or to tend any
Seconds, Slips, or Suckers; each Person so offending, shall forfeit
and pay Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for every such Offence.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, And it is
hereby Enacted That the Clerk of every County-court, shall (with-
out Fee or Reward) fairly transcribe all such Reports as shall be
returned to him by the Persons appointed in Pursuance of this Act,
for numbering of Plants of Tobacco, and shall set up the same in
the Court-house of the said County, at the two next succeeding
Courts after such Return, so as the same be made Three Days at
least before the Court Day; and shall also file and keep the original
Reports in his Office: And where it shall so happen, that any Parish
shall lie in two Counties, in such Case a Return shall be made of
the Number of Plantations and Plants in each County, to the Clerk
of the County wherein such Plantations shall lie, to be transcribed
and set up and filed by the Clerk of such County, in Manner afore-
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