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And be it further enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
af^d that no person or persons whatsoever after such Hoggshead or
Hoggsheads of Tobacco marked with the broad Arrow af^d and
before view thereof by any Officer as af^d shall presume to remove
alter or Change any Hoggshead so marked as af^d or the Tobacco
therein so as to avoid the Justice of this Act nor after View and
Condemnation in manner af^d shall presume to alter or Change in
any wise Meddle with such Condemned Hoggshead or Hoggsheads
of Tobacco without Leave or License from such Informer under
penalty of forfeiture for every Hoggshead of Tobacco so removed
altered or changed as af^d the sume of Twelve Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco to the Use of such Informer to be recovered in any County
Court within this Province by Accon of Debt Bill Plaint or Infor-
mation wherein no Essoyne Protection or Wager of Law to be
allowed.
And be it further Enacted that if any person or persons shall after
the End of this Session of Assembly pay or tender to pay any packt
Hoggshead or Tobacco whereof the full weight of the empty Hoggs-
head or the full weight within the five pounds is not cut or markt on
the Bulge of such Hoggshead and be thereof convict in manner af^d
He or They so convict as af^d shall forfeit for every such Hoggshead
or Hoggsheads not haveing the weight set thereon as af^d the sume of
six Hundred Pounds of Tobacco the one halfe thereof to the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietarie his Heirs and Successors towards
the defraying the Charge of the County where such Offence shall be
committed the other halfe to the Informer or to Him or Them that
shall sue for the same to be recovered in such County Court by accon
of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoyne Protection or
Wager of Law to be allowed. And for the ascertaining what shall be
allowed for the value of a Tobacco Hoggshead.
Be it Enacted that the Receiver of any Hoggshead of Tobacco shall
pay and allow to the Owner or Owners thereof for such Hoggshead
received the Sume of Forty pounds of Tobacco to be added to the nett

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weight of such Tobacco And whereas the Inhabitants of this Prov-
ince that Ship Tobacco on board Ships and other Vessells upon
Freight are much abused by cropping cutting lessening and diminish-
ing of the Hoggsheads wherein such Tobacco is packt by the Masters
of Ships or other Vessells or by other persons under their Command
and Government for Remedy whereof for the future Be it Enacted
by the Authority Advice and Consent af^d that if any Master of a Ship
or other Vessell within this Province after the End of this present
Session of Assembly shall receive any Hoggshead or Hoggsheads of
Tobacco on board his said Ship or Vessell on freight and Shall either
by Himselfe or any other Officer or Person on board his said Ship or
Vessell under his Command Cut or Suffer any Hoggshead or Hoggs-
heads of Tobacco to be Cut Cropt or Lessened in their Length or
Breadth or bv any other Ways or meanes abused defaced or Impaired

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