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them distributed and delivered to the several Inhabitants of each
respective County, in the Proportion and Manner, and at the Times
and Places herein after mentioned, in the Preference of any Two
Justices of each County; for which Purpose, Two Justices shall
attend: And also, that there shall be One Hundred and Fifty Pounds
of the most ordinary Tobacco, to be tied up in Bundles dry enough to
pack, destroied in the Manner herein after mentioned, and by the
Persons herein after directed to be appointed, for every Six Thousand
Plants, allowed by Law to be tended, and so in Proportion for a
greater or lesser Number, shall be destroied and consumed; and
that for every Hundred and Fifty Weight of Tobacco so to be de-
stroied, the Proprietor thereof, shall be allowed Fifteen Shillings
in the said Bills of Credit, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser
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Quantity: And to the End, that the said Tobacco may be effectually
destroied, according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act,
Be It Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the Justices of the
several and respective County Courts, shall, at the several County
Courts, to be held in the Month of June, next ensuing this present
Session, appoint Two good substantial Persons, not being Coun-
cillors, Delegates, Magistrates, Clergimen, Sheriffs, or Phisicians,
of good Character and known Probity, in each Precinct, appointed
for the Counters of Tobacco Plants, by the said Act of Assembly,
entituled, an Act for the Improving the Staple of Tobacco; & for
continuing Part of an Act ascertaining the Gauge and .Tare of To-
bacco Hogsheads; and to prevent cropping, cutting, and defacing
Tobacco taken on Board Ships or Vessels upon Freight; & for laying
Impositions on Tobacco per the Hogshead, for the Support of Gov-
ernment; 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: Who shall by Virtue of their Office, and this Act, take Copies
of the said several Counters Lists returned into the County Court;
which said Lists, the several Clerks of the County Courts, are hereby
required to deliver them, within Twenty Days after such Appoint-
ment; and the Persons so appointed, shall also by Virtue of their
Office, and this Act, destroy or cause to be destroied, by reducing the
same to Ashes, the several Quantities of Tobacco already mentioned,
and take the following Oath, (or Affirmation if a Quaker) viz.
I A. B. do swear, (or affirm) That I will well and truly destroy, or
cause to be destroied, the Quantity of Tobacco, appointed and
directed by an Act of Assembly, entituled, An Act to make and emit
Thirty Six Thousand Pounds Current Money of Maryland, in Bills
of Credit; and for easing the Inhabitants of this Province; and to
raise a Fund to sink the said Bills of Credit, to be destroied according,
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