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Clerk of such County, in Manner aforesaid: And the Clerk of such
County failing to do his Duty herein, shall forfeit and pay One
Thousand Pounds of Tobacco.
Provided Always, That where any Plantation shall be in Two
Parishes, the Tobacco Plants tended thereon, shall be accounted
and taken to be within that Parish or Precinct, where the Servants
or Slaves employed thereon do reside, or the Quarter for them is
situated: And the Persons appointed within that Precinct, where such
Quarter stands, and no other, shall view, examine, count, and make
Return of the Tobacco-Plants tended on such Plantation accord-
ingly.
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Masters of
Families and Housekeepers, and all Overseers of distant Plantations,
shall give in to the Constables appointed to take the List of Tax-
ables Yearly, when they give in an Account of their Taxables, a true
Account of the Names of all P.ersons, for whom any Benefit of tend-
ing Tobacco is allowed by this Act; and shall so distinguish, in his
or her List of Taxables, which of the Persons therein mentioned, are
allowed to tend Tobacco as aforesaid. And every Master of a
Family, Housekeeper, or Overseer, failing so to do, shall forfeit and
pay One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for each Person. And if any
Person shall list or enter any Person with the said Constable, in his
or her Crop, to tend Tobacco, who is not by this Act allowed to tend
Tobacco, the Person so offending, shall forfeit and pay One Thou-
sand Pounds of Tobacco for each Person so falsely entred or listed.
And every Constable who is now, or shall be hereafter appointed to
take the List of Taxables, is hereby directed and required to take
and make separate Lists of all such Persons as are allowed by this
Act to tend Tobacco; and shall return such Lists, in the same Manner
as the Lists of Taxables are returnable to the Clerk of each respective
County-Court, at or before the Twenty Fifth Day of July, Yearly,
during the Continuance of this Act; and shall make such Distinction
in the List of Taxables by him returned, of the Persons not prohibited
by this Act to tend Tobacco.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That
each Person to be appointed, in Pursuance of this Act, to examine
and number Plants as aforesaid, who shall plant and tend more
Tobacco-Plants on any Plantation or Plantations to him belonging,
than is herein before allowed, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit
and pay One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, for every Person above
Sixteen Years of Age, on his Plantation, that shall be employed in
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