304 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4

Acts

for such Offence as well by this Explanatory Act as the former One
by Issuing his Precept under his hand and Seal to the Sherriff of
such County where such Conviction shall happen to levy such for-
feiture on the Body Goods or Chattells of such Offender in as full
and Ample Manner as any County Court by the said former Act had
power and Jurisdiction given, And every Sherriff in this Province is
hereby Strictly required and injoyned to Execute such Precepts with
all Convenient Speed and levy the forfeitures therein mentioned to
the uses herafter set Down.
Provided allways and it is hereby Enacted that if any Justice
either of the Prov^ll or County Court shall or do refuse or Neglect
(without lawfull Excuse) on application to him made to go with
any Informer to any suspected House in order to discover trashy or
bad Tob^o within the time limitted or shall refuse or Neglect to
Empower such person as herein before directed to go with any in-
former to view Tobacco in any House Suspected to be trashy or bad
and that if such persons so appointed and empowered by a Justice as
af^d shall refuse or Neglect within the af^d time limitted to go and view
any Tobacco suspected as af^d according to the Directions before men-
tioned that then such Justice or person so by him appointed and
impowered as af^d making Default in any trust or Authority by this
Act to him or either of them given shall forfeit and pay one thousand
pounds of Tobacco for every such refusall or Neglect to be convicted
by the Oath of one Sufficient Wittness before any other Justice of the
Provinciall or County Court within ten Days from the Expiration of
the three Days above limitted and such Justice before whom such
Conviction shall be shall forthwith Issue his Precept under his hand
and seal directed to the Sherriff of the Respective County to levy the
one thousand pounds of Tobacco for every Default as af^d on the
Body Goods or Chattells of such offending Justice or of such offend-
ing person so appointed and empowered as af^d to the uses herein
aftermentioned.
And Be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
af^d that all the fines forfeitures and penaltys herein before limitted
and imposed for any breach or offence of this or the former Act be
recovered had gotten levy'd and destrained for in manner and form
as above directed and that they and every of them be applyed and
appropriated to the uses following Viz. One half thereof to the
person who shall make Information as af^d and the other half to the
use of Schools according to the directions of the Act of Assembly
intituled a Supplementary Act to the Act intituled an Act for laying

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an imposition on Negroes and Severall Sorts of Liquors Imported
and allso on Irish Servants to prevent the importing too great a
number of Irish Papists into this Province And whereas the Oaths
of Receivers and shippers of Tob^o provided to be taken by the afore-
mentioned Act are deemed by Sundry of the Inhabitants of this