272 Assembly Proceedings, October 3-November 2, 1728.

Session
Laws

said; and the Clerk of any County, failing to do his Duty herein,
shall forfeit and pay one Thousand Pounds of Tobacco.
Provided always, That where any Plantation shall be in two
Parishes, the Tobacco-plants tended thereon, shall be accounted and
taken to be within that Parish or Precinct where the Servants or
Slaves employed thereon, do reside, or the Quarter for them is situ-
ated; and the Persons appointed within that Precinct where such
Quarter stands, and no other, shall view, examine, count and make
Return of the Tobacco-plants tended on such Plantations accord-
ingly.
Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Masters of
Families and Housekeepers, and all Overseers of distant Planta-
tions, shall give in to the Constables appointed to take the List of
Taxables Yearly, when they give in an Account of their Taxables,
a true Account of the Names of every Person above Twelve, and
under Sixteen Years of Age, for whom any Benefit of tending To-
bacco is allowed by this Act; and shall so distinguish in his or her
List of Taxables, which of the Persons therein mentioned are
allowed to tend Tobacco, as aforesaid. And every Master of a
Family, Housekeeper, or Overseer, failing so to do, shall forfeit and
pay One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for each Person: And if
any Person shall list or enter with the said Constable, any Person
under Sixteen Years of Age for a Taxable, or that is under Twelve
Years of Age, to be above that Age, or a Labourer in his or her
Crop, who is not hereby allowed to tend Tobacco; in either Case the
Person so offending, shall forfeit and pay One Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, for every such Person so falsly entered or listed: And
every Constable who shall be hereafter appointed to take the List of
Taxables, is hereby directed and required to take and make separate
Lists of the Names of all such Persons above Twelve, and under
Sixteen Years of Age; and shall return such Lists in the same Man-
ner as the List of Taxables are returnable, to the Clerk of each re-

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spective County-court, at or before the Fifteenth Day of May,
Yearly, during the Continuance of this Act; and shall make such
Distinction in the List of Taxables, by him returned, of the Persons
not prohibited by this Act to tend Tobacco.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That each
Person to be appointed, in Pursuance of this Act, to examine and
number Plants, as aforesaid, who shall plant and tend more To-
bacco-plants, on any Plantation or Plantations to him belonging,
than is herein before allowed, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit
and pay One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for every Person above
Twelve Years of Age, on his Plantation, that shall be employed in
making Tobacco. And if any Master, Mistress, or Overseer, shall
refuse to give a just and true Account, or shall deliver a false Ac-
count of the Names of the several Persons by this Act allowed