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and the words abovementioned in the said Act shall for the future
be taken and Construed in this sence and not otherwise.
And it is further declared that the Words in the fifth Paragraph
of the aforesaid Act (Viz) (That any person or persons what-
soever that shall have seconds suckers or Slips, turned out on his her
or their plantation or plantations as aforesaid or shall house the
same) was never intended nor shall they for the future be Construed
to hinder or debarr any person or persons within this Province from
turning out a sucker or suckers and improving the same to his her
or their best advantage where the true plant or plants has been de-
stroyed by any Accident, but only for preventing the making improv-
ing and housing any more than one plant from the same Stalk or
Root any thing in the aforementioned Act to the Contrary notwith-
standing.
And for the more effectuall preventing and deterring all persons
within this Province from making shipping or in any wise disposing
of any trashy and unqualified Tobacco according to the abovesaid
Explanation of the aforesaid Act.
Be it Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid that
if any person or persons whatsoever owners of or makers of Tobacco
on any Plantation or plantations within this Province shall either
themselves or shall cause or Suffer any Overseer or Overseers Ser-
vant or Servants Negroes or others under their Command or Charge
to Save or tie up in bundles or otherwise or Stemm any trashy or
otherwise unqualified Tobacco as aforesaid and shall not destroy the
same at the time the Good is stript from such bad Tobacco or that
shall in their Tobacco or other Houses preserve save or conceal any
trashy or other unqualified Tobacco either in Bulks Hogsheads or
otherwise which they or any of them have stript and tied up, in bun-

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dles or stem'd, or otherwise before the making of this Law and shall
not destroy the same before the Last Day of March next shall forfeit
for every time they shall be Convicted thereof the sum of One thou-
sand pounds of Tobacco to be recovered and applyed as hereafter
is provided.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid that it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons
whatsoever that shall discover any Tobacco or Tobaccos that are not
truly qualified according to the true intent meaning and Explanation
of the aforementioned Act that was not bona fide paid away and
received before the tenth Day of October last past to Seize and Mark
the same be it in Hogsheads bulks or other package.
Provided such person or persons so seizing and marking such
Tobacco or Tobaccos shall within three Days after such seizure
make information to be a Justice of the Provinciall or County Court
(where such seizure shall be made) of such seizure by him or them
made the which Justice of the Provinciall or County Court as often

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