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or Fifty Shillings Sterling, to the Party grieved; to be recovered in
any Court .of Record in this Province, against such Master or his
Sureties, by Action of Debt, or on the Case, within Two Years after
the Date of the Bill or Bills of Lading of such Tobacco.
And be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Security
or Securities, of any Master of Ship or Vessel, within this Province,
shall be liable to make Satisfaction, according to this Act, for the
cropping, cutting, abusing, defacing or impairing of any Hogshead
or Hogsheads of Tobacco, as aforesaid, and prosecuted for the
same, in any Court of Record within this Province, that can hold
Plea thereof: And that every Naval Officer within this Province,
shall, on pain of Fifty Shillings Sterling, certify under his Hand
and Seal, who are the Security or Securities of any such Master,
which shall be sufficient Evidence in any Court of Record where
such Action is commenced, to prove who are the Security or Securi-
ties of such Master, for which Certificate the Naval Officer may have
and receive one Shilling, and no more; and that the several and re-
spective Naval Officers within this Province, shall hang a fair Copy
of this Act in their respective Offices, for the Perusal of all Masters
of Ships and Vessels, the said Naval Officer to have and receive for
the said Copy, One Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, to be allowed in
the County Levy.
And forasmuch as by the Enlargement of the Tobacco-Hogsheads
from the late Gauge of Thirty Inches Diameter on the Head, of this
present Gauge a large Quantity of Tobacco will be exported in each
Hogshead, whereby the several Duties and Imposts on Tobacco will
be evidently Retrenched and Lessened, unless a just Regard be had
to the Preservation of them in their usual Worth and Value, which
this present General Assembly is highly obliged to, those Duties be-
ing generally applyed to the Support of Government, and other the
most important Affairs of this Province; and therefore it is not only
just, but necessary that the Duties upon the Hogsheads, which shall
be of the Gauge therein directed, shall be in some sort enlarged pro-
portionably to the Enlargement of the said Gauge. It is therefore
most humbly prayed, That His Lordship, the Lord Proprietary, will
be favourably pleased to grant that it may be enacted,
And be it Enacted, by his said Lordship, by and with the Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That from and after the End of this present
Session of Assembly, there shall be levyed, collected and raised to
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, His Heirs and Suc-
cessors, for every Hogshead of Tobacco which shall be Shipped in
any Ship, or Vessel, to be exported out of this Province, or any of
the Territories, Islands, Ports, Rivers, Creeks or Places thereto be-
longing, after the End of this present Session of Assembly, the Sum
of Fifteen Pence Sterling, in Lieu and Stead of the Twelve Pence
Sterling per Hogshead, formerly imposed on every Hogshead of
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