344 Assembly Proceedings, August 19-September 6, 1731.

Session
Laws

Part thereof, which ought to be destroied as aforesaid, from any
Person or Persons whatsoever, within this Province, not having at
the Time of serving such Execution, or other Process, a sufficient
Quantity of Tobacco to satisfy such Execution or Process, besides the
Quantity or Quantities of Tobacco directed to be kept, in order to be
destroied, in Pursuance of, and by Virtue of this Act. And the
better to enable the said Commissioners, to send to the several Coun-
ties, the Sums of Money in Bills of Credit, which the said Tobacco
so as before directed to be destroied, amounts unto,
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Clerks of
the several County Courts within this Province, shall be, and they
severally are hereby required and obliged, by the last Day of April
next ensuing, to transmit to the Commissioners, at their Office at
Annapolis, an exact Account of the Number of Tobacco Plants, by the
several Counters, in their respective Counties, returned to the several
Courts, to have been by them viewed and left standing; and in Case
any of the said Clerks shall fail so to do, he or they shall forfeit and
pay Ten Pounds current Money each; to be recovered and applied as
aforesaid. And in order to raise a Fund, for sinking the said Bills
of Credit, as also to support the Credit of the said Bills in Circulation,
Be It Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That one Moiety of the
Three Pence per Gallon, due and paiable by Virtue of a certain Act
of Assembly, entituled, An Act laying an Imposition on Negroes; and
on several Sorts of Liquors imported; and also on Irish Servants,
to prevent the Importing too great a Number of Irish Papists into this
Province; for Rum, Wine, and other Spirits, which shall be imported
into this Province, after the last Day of July, aforesaid, which shall
be in the Year of our Lord God, One Thousand Seven Hundred &
Thirty Two, and one Moiety of the Duty of Twenty Shillings

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Sterling, on Irish Servants; and one Moiety of the Twenty Shillings
Sterling, on Negroes, which shall be imported into this Province after
the last Day of July, aforesaid, shall be applied towards a Fund, to
sink the said Bills of Credit, and accounted for by the respective
Treasurers, with, and paid to, the Commissioners, appointed by this
Act; who shall allow the several Treasurers the same Salary they
are now entituled unto; any Law, Usage, or Custom to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That every
Person not being an Inhabitant or Resident, who shall after the last
Day of July, Seventeen Hundred and Thirty Two, import into this
Province any Rum, Wine, or other Spirits, (except from Great
Britain,) shall be obliged to pay One Penny per Gallon, besides the
Rates and Duties due and paiable by Virtue of the said Act, laying
an Imposition on Negroes; and on several Sorts of Liquors, imported ;
and also on Irish Servants, to prevent the Importing too great a
Number of Irish Papists into this Province; to be collected and