84 Assembly Proceedings, October 10-30, 1727.

Session
Laws

vants or Slaves, upon any Lands or Plantations within this Prov-
ince, any Quantity or Quantities of Hemp, and cause the same to
be cleaned, and made merchantable, they shall be allowed as a
Bounty for their Encouragement, the Quantity of One Hundred
Pounds of Tobacco, for every Hundred Weight of Hemp they shall
so make, as aforesaid, and pro rato, for a greater or lesser Quan-
tity; to be levied (together with the Sheriffs Salary for collecting
the same) by the Justices of the several and respective County-
courts within this Province, by an equal Assessment upon the Tax-
able Persons within that County where such Hemp shall be made
as aforesaid; and collected by the Sheriff of the County, as a Part
of the County Levy, and by him to be paid to whomsoever it shall
become due. And every Person as aforesaid, that shall make any
Quantity of Hemp, clean and merchantable, and want the Allow-
ance aforesaid for the same, such Person or Persons are hereby
directed to apply themselves to any Justice of the Peace for the
County where such Hemp shall be made; every which Justice (upon
Application to him to be made as aforesaid) is hereby impowered
and required to appoint some Person of honest Reputation, to go
with the Person applying to him, to take a just and true Account
of the Weight and Quality of all such Hemp that he craves Allow-
ance for, and return the same to such Justice, upon Oath: And if
it shall appear to the said Justice, by the Oath of such Person ap-
pointed as aforesaid, that the said Hemp is clean and merchantable,
and the Party also making such Oath, before such Justice, that such

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Hemp was made within that County, and that he, nor any other
Person hath ever had any Allowance or Certificates, to the County-
court, the Justices thereof are hereby required to make them such
Allowances as beforementioned.

This Act to continue Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall first happen after the said Three
Years.

Chap. IV
p. 9
[Revises
1714, ch. 4]

An Act Reviving and Continuing an Act of Assembly, Intituled,
An Act for Relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from some
Aggrievances in the Prosecution of Suits at Law.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That the above-mentioned Act, Intituled, An Act for
relieving the Inhabitants of this Province from some Aggrievances
in the Prosecution of Suits at Law, made at a Session of Assembly,
begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twenty Second Day

of June, Anno Dom' One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fourteen,

be and is hereby revived and continued in full Force, from and after
the End of this present Session of Assembly, for and during the