Ac/s. 557

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any
Person paying away any Hogshead or Hogsheads of Tobacco, shall
mark, or cause to be marked, on the Buldge thereof, within Five
Pounds of the real and exact Weight of the empty Hogshead, on
Pain of Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco: To be recovered and
applied in the same Manner, as the Penalty for false packing.
And be it Enacted. That the Allowance for the Hogshead from the

Buyer to the Seller, shall be Eight Pence Current Money of Maryland,

or Six Pounds of Tobacco at the Election of the Buyer, for every
Hundred Weight of Tobacco the Hogshead shall contain, and so
pro Rato; which shall be in full Satisfaction for the Hogshead. And
to prevent the making of Seconds,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons having
the Direction of any Plantation or Place where Tobacco shall be made,
shall be obliged Yearly and every Year, during the Continuance of this
Act, to cut up, or cause to be cut up, all the Tobacco Stalks on such
Plantation or Place, within the Space of Twenty Days after the To-
bacco shall be cut down and housed, on Pain of forfeiting Two Hun-
dred Pounds of Tobacco for every Person employed in making
Tobacco on such Plantation or Place: One Moiety to be applied to-
wards supporting the Publick School of the County where the Fact
shall be committed; and the other Moiety to any Person or Persons
that will sue for the same: To be recovered in the County Court,

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where the Penalty shall exceed Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco,
by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin,
Protection, or W^rager of Law, shall be allowed; and where the Pen-
alty shall not exceed Four Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, that the same
shall be recovered by the Prosecutor to his own Use, before a single
Magistrate.
And be it Enacted, That such Part of an Act of Assembly, intituled,
An Act for securing Merchants and Others Tobacco, after they have
received it, and the declaring the altering the Mark or Quality thereof,
to be Felony, and against false packing, as relates to false packing,
shall be, and is hereby repealed and abrogated.
This Act to continue in Force from the End of this Session of
Assembly, 'till the Twenty Ninth Day of September, that shall be in
the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty
Three.

p. 37 [a]

An Act to explain Part of an Act, intituled, an Act for the Advance-
ment of Justice.

Whereas, by the said Act for the Advancement of Justice, all Bonds
and other Obligations, under Hand and Seal, are assignable from
one Person to another, and that the Assignee shall and may, by Virtue
of such Assignment, maintain an Action in his or her own Name
against the Obligee and Obligees. And whereas, it has been doubted,
whether the Assignee or Assignees might also maintain an Action

Chap.
XXVI
[Explains
1723, ch. 12]