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from, did reside, under the Penalty of Fifty Pounds; to be recovered
and applied as aforesaid. And the said several Justices, having such
Notice, shall and are hereby enjoined and required to proceed to
the Nomination and Appointment of fit Persons, of known Probity,
and good Character, as often as any Person or Persons shall refuse
or neglect to attend, for their Qualification, or to act as aforesaid,
until they shall have nominated and appointed Two such Persons as
aforesaid, and who will qualify themselves to act, according to the
Directions of this Act: And the said several Justices, for their Neglect
to perform and do what is required by this Act to be done and per-
formed, by them, and every of them, shall forfeit Fifty Pounds each ;
to be recovered and applied in Manner aforesaid. And that the several
Quantities of Tobacco, intended by Virtue of this Act to be destroied,
may not be disposed of, or otherwise secreted from the Persons
designed by this Act to destroy them :
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That every Person and
Persons whatsoever, to whom every Six Thousand Plants, herein
before mentioned, or any part or proportion thereof, shall belong,
or his, her, or their Overseer or Overseers, shall be obliged, enjoined,
and required by this Act, to keep and preserve, until the last Day of
July, which shall be in the Year of our Lord God, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Thirty Two, One Hundred and Fifty Weight of
the most ordinary Tobacco, for every Six Thousand Plants as afore-
said, and also a proportionable Part of such Tobacco, for a greater
or lesser Quantity than Six Thousand Plants, unless the same shall
be destroied sooner, by the Persons to be appointed for that Purpose :

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which said Quantity of the most ordinary Tobacco, the Owner or
Overseer; where the same shall be made, of the Six Thousand Plants,
or a greater or lesser Quantity thereof, shall produce and show, or
cause to be produced and shown, to the Persons herein before men-
tioned to be nominated and qualified for the Destruction thereof, when
such Persons require the same, under the Penalty and Forfeiture of
Forty Shillings current Money, for every Person that shall be allowed
to tend Tobacco on such Plantation; to be recovered from the Owner
or Overseer, in Manner aforesaid; and to be applied towards the
sinking Fund, by this Act intended to be raised.
Provided, Such Request to be made by the Persons qualified as
aforesaid, be on or before the last Day of July, which shall be in the
Year of coir Lord God, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty
Two. And for the more effectual securing such Quantities of To-
bacco, for the Purposes aforesaid,
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall not be law-
ful, to or for any Sheriff or other Officer, or Person whatsoever, to
levy or take, or cause to be levied or taken, before the said last Day
of July, Seventeen Hundred and Thirty Two, by way of Execution,
oi by Vh LUC uf any oiher Process, such Quantity of Tobacco, or any

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