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diligently will review and examine, all the several Fields, and Places,
wherein all such Tobacco-Plants are tended; and will cut up and
destroy, or cause to be cut up and destroy'd all Stalks from which
any Tobacco shall be cut or taken, and all Slips and Suckers growing
out of the same above the Length of Nine Inches, which I shall find
growing in any of the said Fields or Places aforesaid, according to
the Directions of the said Act; and that I will duly execute all the
Powers and Authorities given me by the said Act, honestly and
impartially, and make a just and true Report of my Proceedings
therein, without Favour, Affection, or Prejudice. And that I will
inform against all Persons, who shall be guilty of any Breach of
the said Act, in any Matter or Thing, wherein a Counter is required
to examine and enquire, to some Justice of the Peace, for the County,
wherein the Offence shall be committed. So help me God.
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And if any Person appointed by the Vestry of any Parish, to view,
examine, and number Tobacco-Plants, and to cut up and destroy
Tobacco-Stalks, Slips, and Suckers, in Pursuance of this Act, shall
refuse to accept the said Office, or who shall accept of the said Office,
and shall (Sickness not preventing him) neglect to take the Oath (or
Affirmation) by this Act required to be taken, within Three Days
after such his Acceptance; such Person shall forfeit and pay the
Quantity of One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, or the Sum of
Five Pounds Current Money.
And upon such Refusal, or the Disability of any such Person or
Persons, the Vestry of the said Parish shall meet and appoint One
other fit Person in the Room of him so refusing, or disabled; and so,
from Time to Time, as often as any Person shall refuse, or become
incapable, nominate and appoint One other in his stead. And every
Person, so nominated and appointed, that shall refuse to accept the
said Office, and take the Oath (or Affirmation) as aforesaid, or who
shall accept thereof, and neglect to take the said Oath (or Affirma-
tion) as aforesaid, by the Space of Three Days next ensuing such
his Acceptance, shall forfeit and pay the like Quantity of One Thou-
sand Pounds of Tobacco, or the Sum of Five Pounds Current Money.
And in Case, the Vestry-men of any Parish, shall fail to meet on or
before the First Day of July next, and on or before the First Day of
June, in every other Year than the present Year, during the Continu-
ance of this Act, Yearly, or shall refuse to do his Duty at such Vestry,
so that there shall not be a sufficient Number to hold a Vestry; every
such Vestry-man (the Minister excepted) so failing to meet, or
refusing to act in such Vestry, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of
Twenty Pounds Current Money. And such Vestry are required to
meet for the Purpose aforesaid, within Three Days after such
Failure. And every Vestry-man (the Minister excepted) who shall
then fail to meet, or shall refuse to do his Duty at such Vestry, so that
no Vestry is or can be held, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Thirty
Pounds Current Money. And to the End, that the Duty of Number-
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