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Informer; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary, in any wise,
notwithstanding.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That no
Person whatsoever within this Province, shall, during the Continu-
ance of this Act, receive or conceal any Tobacco imported into this
Province, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, or be
aiding and assisting to any Person importing the same, under the
Penalty of forfeiting and paying double the Quantity of Tobacco, so
by such Person received or concealed, or wherein such Accessary
shall be aiding or assisting in the Importation; to be recovered before
a single Magistrate, as in the Case of small Debts, or in the County
Court, where the Offence shall be committed, as the Case shall re-
quire; to be applied as aforesaid.
This Act to continue until the Tenth Day of November, that shall
be in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and
Thirty Five.

Session
Laws

An Act for the further Assessment of Thirty Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, on the Inhabitants of St. Paul's Parish, in Baltemore
County.

Whereas, it appears to this General Assembly, by the Representa-
tion of the Vestry-Men and Church- Wardens of St. Paul's Parish, in
Baltemore County, That the Quantity of Forty Thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, granted to be assessed on them, by Virtue of An Act for the
Building of a Church in Baltemore County, and in a Town called
Baltemore Town, in St. Paul's Parish, was not sufficient for that
Purpose :
Be It Therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and .Lower House of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the Justices of Baltemore County Court,
shall and may, and they are hereby authorized and directed, on the
Application of the Vestry-Men and Church-Wardens of the said
Parish, to assess and levy, by a further Assessment, (over and above
the Forty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, granted to be assessed and
levied, by Virtue of the aforementioned Act) on the Inhabitants of
the said Parish, any Quantity or Quantities of Tobacco, not exceed-
ing in the whole, the Quantity of Thirty Thousand Pounds of To-
bacco; and which said Quantity or Quantities of Tobacco, to to be
assessed and levied, shall be collected by the Sheriff of the said

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County, who is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same ;
and who shall have for such Collection, at and after the Rate of
Five Pounds of Tobacco per Cent; and the said Tobacco when so
collected, shall be paid to the Vestry-Men and Church- Wardens of
the said Parish, who are hereby authorized and required to apply
the same, for the Building of the Church aforesaid, in the same

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