Acts. 89

And be it Enacted, That such part of an Act of Assembly, Inti-
tuled, An Act for securing Merchants and others Tobacco, after
they have received it, and the declaring the altering the Mark or
Quality thereof to be Felony, and against false Packing, as relates
to false Packing; and such Part of an Act of Assembly, Intituled,
An Act ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco-Hogsheads,
and to prevent cropping, cutting, and defacing Tobacco taken on
board Ships or Vessels upon Freight; and for laying Impositions
on Tobacco per the Hogshead, for the Support of Government;
and for the encouraging Settlements in this Province, by ascertain-
ing the manner of paying his Lordship's Alienation Fines and Quit
Rents, for the Term therein proposed, and for taking off the Three
Pence per Hogshead formerly raised for the Publick Charge, so
far as it relates to imposing a Penalty for false Tareing of Tobacco-
Hogsheads; shall be and are hereby repealed and abrogated.
This Act to continue in Force for Three Years from the End of
this Session of Assembly.

Session
Laws

An Act for the speedy and effectual Publication of the Laws of
this Province, and for the Encouragement of William Parks, of
the City of Annapolis, Printer.

Whereas at a former Session of this present General Assembly,
held in the Month of March, Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Six,
it was Resolved, That the said William Parks should print the
Publick Laws, Speeches, and Answers, at the Opening each Ses-
sion, and that he should be allowed Two Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco for each County, by the respective Counties, Yearly.
And whereas the said William Parks, did (pursuant to the said
Resolution) print and deliver to the Parties mention'd in the said
Resolution, the several Publick Laws, enacted in the said Session

Chap. VIII
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by 1731. ch.
I, and ex-
pired in
1740]

of Assembly held in the said Month of March, and also in the Ses-
sion of Assembly held in the Month of July, in the Year of Our
Lord Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Six, for which there was
due to the said William Parks, Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco
from each County respectively, according to the said Resolution.
And whereas the said William Parks, upon his Application to
the Justices of the several Counties, for an Allowance of the Pay-
ment of the said Quantities of Tobacco so due to him as aforesaid,
hath receiv'd the same from several Counties of this Province, but
the Justices of some other Counties have (thro' a Misapprehension
of the said Resolution) refused to allow and pay the same to the
said William Parks: For the Remedying whereof, and for the
Prevention thereof for the Future, as also for the Encouragement
of the said William Parks, in the Service of the Country,
Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governour, and

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