482 Assembly Proceedings, July 10-August 8, 1729.

Session
Laws

not be received in Evidence; except that where Declarations shall
be sent with the Writs in Order for Tryal the first Court, the De-
fendant who shall insist on any Account in his or her Defence as
aforesaid, shall deliver or send a Copy of such Account to the Clerk
the first Day of the Court, who shall receive and file the same.
And be it further Enacted, That an Act intituled, An Act provid-
ing what shall be good Evidence to prove Foreign and other Debts,
and to prevent vexatious and unnecessary Suits at Law, pleading
Discounts in Bar, shall be and is hereby repealed and abrogated,
Provided nevertheless, That it shall and may be lawful for any
Person to prove any Account of Goods sold, Money lent, Work
done, or other Matters or Articles properly chargeable in Account,
which became due at any Time heretofore, or shall become due be-
fore the Tenth Day of March next, according to the Directions of
the said Act, so as all such Accounts shall be proved as aforesaid, at
or before the Thirtieth Day of August, which shall be in the Year
of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty: The Re-
peal of the said Act, or any Thing in this Act to the contrary, not-
withstanding.

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And be it further Enacted, That any Person who shall wittingly
and advisedly swear or affirm falsely to any Account before any
Provincial or County Justice, and shall be thereof lawfully convict,
by Confession or Verdict, shall suffer the same Pains and Penalties
as in case of corrupt and wilful Perjury.

Chap. XXI

An Act for the Preservation of the Breed of Wild Deer.

Whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly, that
the Species of Deer hath of late Years been very much lessen'd,
occasion'd principally by the Inhabitants shooting, or otherwise
destroying them, during the Time of the Female Deer being with
young; and which evil Practice, if not put a Stop to, may in a few
Years entirely destroy the Species of Deer, to the great Damage of
the good People of this Province: For Prevention whereof, it is
prayed that it may be enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Gover-
nour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That it shall not, nor may be lawful for any
Person or Persons within this Province, (the Indians in Amity
with us excepted,) between the Fifteenth Day of January, and the
last Day of July, in every Year, to kill any Deer, under the Penalty
of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every such Offence to the
Use of the Informer, to be recovered before a single Magistrate (as
in Case of small Debts) by the Testimony of one sufficient Witness
besides the Informer.