Acts. 553

Persons, whose Body or Goods so taken, by Virtue of such Execution
or Executions, as aforesaid, to supersede the same, in the same
Manner, as he, she, or they, might or could do, if in Case the Ex-
ecution or Executions had issued, or were to issue, after the Tenth
of May, in any Year; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the contrary,
notwithstanding.

Session
Laws

An Act repealing Part of an Act, intituled, An Act, laying an Impo-
sition 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.

Be it 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 Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That such Part of the said recited Act, or any other Act of
Assembly of this Province, wherein, or whereby, any Duty or Impo-
sition is laid on any Irish Servants being Protestants, upon, or by
Reason of their Importation into this Province, shall be, and by
Virtue of this Act is, abrogated and repealed; and that no Duty or
Imposition hereafter, shall or ought to be paid, for or upon the Im-
portation of any Protestant or Protestants from the Kingdom of
Ireland, or elsewhere, into this Province.

Chap.
XXIII
[Repeals
1715, ch. 36]

An Act ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads, to
prevent cropping, cutting, and defacing Tobacco taken on Board
Ships or Vessels upon Freight, to prevent false packing, and
making Seconds.

It being necessary to ascertain the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco
Hogsheads, and to prevent the cropping, cutting, and defacing To-
bacco taken on Board Ships or other Vessels upon Freight, to prevent
false packing of Tobacco, and making Seconds,
Be it 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 Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That from and after the End of this present Session of Assem-
bly, it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever,
suspecting, discovering, or knowing of any Hogshead or Hogsheads
of Tobacco that shall exceed Forty Eight Inches in the Stave, or
Thirty Two Inches in the Diameter of the Head within the Grose, or
that shall exceed Thirty Seven Inches Diameter in the Buldge, on any
Account or Pretence whatsoever, Thirty Six Inches being supposed
a competent Gauge, to call to his Assistance, any Justice of the Peace,
Sheriff, Coroner, Vestryman, or Churchwarden, living or residing
within the County where such Tobacco shall be suspected, known,
or discovered; and to enter into any House, Warehouse, Ship, Boat,
or other Vessel, and there, in the Presence of such Justice, or other

Chap. XXV