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And Be It Further Enacted, That One Fourth Part of all Tobacco-
Debts due from any of the Inhabitants of this Province, to any other
Inhabitant thereof, which was contracted before the Third Day of
October, Seventeen Hundred and Twenty Eight, may be paid and
discharged in Grain, as aforesaid, in Manner aforesaid.
And Whereas, the Laws heretofore made to prevent false Packing
Tobacco, and false Taring Tobacco-Hogsheads, have not had the
designed Effect; Therefore, for the more effectual preventing such
dishonest and fraudulent Practices for the future,
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any Person who
shall false pack any Hogshead of Tobacco, as false Packing is de-
scribed in and by an Act, Intituled, An Act 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; and shall pay, or tender the same in Payment; and shall be
convict of such false Packing, shall forfeit Four Hundred Pounds
of Tobacco, for every Hogshead so false packed, to the Person to
whom such Tobacco shall be paid or tendered.
Provided, That such Person shall prosecute for the said Penalty,
within Four Days after his Discovery of such false Packing: And, in
Default of such Prosecution, that the Offender shall forfeit and pay
the Quantity of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every false-
packed Hogshead, to any other Person who shall prosecute for the
same.
And Be It Further Enacted, That any Person, to whom any such
false-packed Hogshead of Tobacco shall be paid, or tendered, and
who shall connive at, or conceal such false Packing, or neglect or
forbear to prosecute for the said Penalty within Four Days next after
the Discovery of such false Packing, and be thereof convict, shall
forfeit and pay for every false-packed Hogshead so connived at, or
concealed, to the Informer, or the Person who shall sue or prosecute
for the same, the Quantity of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco.
And Be It Enacted, That any Person who shall pay, or tender in
Payment, any Hogshead of Tobacco, whereon the Weight of the
Hogshead shall not be cut or marked, according to the Direction of the
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 To-
bacco per the Hogshead, for the Support of Government; and for
the encouraging Settlements in this Province, by ascertaining the
Manner of paying his Lordship's Alienation Fines and Quit Rents,
for the term therein proposed; and for the taking off the Three-pence
per Hogshead, formerly raised for the Publick Charge; shall 'forfeit
Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, to the Person to whom any
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