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of botli Houses whether it may not be necessary to Reduce the
Quantity of Tobacco Plants as follows

U. H. J.

Plants

All Taxables employed in making Tobacco to tend only

5000

All Persons who are exempt from paying Levy and not
having more than One Taxable

7000

The Male Children of Poor people between the Ages of 1

12 & 16

[2500

White Women allowed by the former Act to tend Tob^o

2500

All persons having more than One Taxable and not more than

4 shall be allowed to tend Tobacco with each Male child

2500

from 14 to 16. and all their Male Servants or Slaves

No Person having 5 Taxables who work without Doors shall be
allowed any Number of Plants for himself or any of his Children
under 16 years of Age or for any Servant whether hired or other-
wise or for any Slave under the same Age
Provision shall be made to prevent the hireing out of half Taxables
in Order to Evade the Law.
That Tradesmen be restrained as they were intended to be by the
Supplementary Bill prepared by the Lower House last Session
That payments in Tobacco now Setled and Stated by Laws in force
be reduced in proportion to the Quantity that Tobacco will be
lessened by the proposed Restrictions as near as may be which your
Committee presume will be a fourth part

That an Equivalent be paid in Grain at Stated Prices Except The
allowances to the Members of both Houses of Assembly, Judges or
Justices in the several Courts of Judicature and fees and other Al-
lowances chargeable in the publick or County Levies of which one
fourth part to be Deducted without any Equivalent
That the time be Limitted for making such paym^ts
That no Execution shall Issue for more than the Quantity of
Tobacco to be paid in Specie
That there be a time limitted for shipping Tobacco wherein
particular care shall be taken to give timely notice to prevent Traders
Suffering thereby

That in order to prevent false packing the Laws now in force
be altered and Jurisdiction given to a Single Magistrate
That all Concealers of false packed Tobacco be liable to the same
Penalty as false packers.

A Message from the Lower House by Coll^o Belt and M^r Sprigg
with the Petition of John Aldridge of Prince Georges County thus
Endorsed.

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