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And provided also, That any Person, having several Plantations
whereon Tobacco shall be made by Taxable Persons, shall not be
obliged to remove any Tobacco, in Order to be burnt, from such
Plantation; but that the same may be burnt where it shall be made ;
any thing in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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Laws
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A Supplementary Act, to the Act for the Ordering and Regulating
the Militia of this Province, for the better Defence and Security
thereof.
Whereas the Dominion of His Majesty, the Government of His
Lordship, and the Properties of the Inhabitants of this Province,
ought to be guarded with such ready Defence, as might be able to
resist any sudden Invasion, or Hostile Attempt: And whereas the
several Provisions hitherto intended by the Legislature of this
Province, as well as the several Sums of Money laid out in the
Purchase of Arms, and Ammunition, for those Purposes, have not
had the desired Effects, in a proper Regulation of the Militia of this
Province, by Reason of some Defects in the Laws already made :
Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Upper and
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Chap. VII
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Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
any Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, or Major, already commissioned,
or hereafter to be commissioned, by the Governor or Commander in
Chief, for the Time being, or any Two, or more of them, shall have
the same Powers and Authorities, in the Execution of any Laws
now in Force concerning the Militia, as the Colonel, Lieutenant-
Colonel, or Major, intended by the said Laws, are invested with :
Provided, the Number of such Officers, who shall at any Time act,
or execute any Part of the same Laws, be the same as is directed for
such Purposes, by the said Laws.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That his
Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief, for the Time
being, shall and may, at any Time or Times, as to him shall seem
meet, cause or order to be delivered out of the Publick, or County
Magazine or Store, such and so many Arms as to Him shall seem
proper, to the Colonel of each County, and the Captain of every
Company, within any Town or Corporation of this Province: For
which said Arms, the said Colonel and Captain, shall give his and
their Receipt and Receipts; which said Receipt and Receipts shall
be recorded in the Council-Book of this Province; and the Record
thereof allowed as good Evidence against such Colonel or Captain;
and shall account with and be answerable to the Governor or Com-
mander in Chief, for the Time being, from Time to Time, for the
same, or the Value thereof, or of so many as shall not be produced
to His Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief, for the
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