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Seal of the said office shall be as Effectual & available to all Intents
& Purposes as the original Patent any Law Usage or Custom to
the contrary notwithstanding and that at the End of the Bill the
following Clause be added viz.

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This Act to continue for three years and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the expiration of
three years
Signed p order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho.

Adjourned until two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournm^t
Present as in the morning except Philip Lee and George Plater
Esq^r
Read the second Time the Bill entituled a Supplementary Act
to the Act Entituled an Act laying an Imposition on Negroes &
Sev^l Sorts of Liquors imported & also on Irish Servants to prevent
the importing too great a number of Irish Papists into this Prov-
ince and with the following Amendm^ts will pass in 10^th Line first
page between Person & whatsoever, put or Persons 13^th Line of the
same page to be left out & the following inserted, to die or be ex-
ported out of this Province before Sale of the same Servant or
Slave 16^th Line of the same page between Slave and any put and
that the said Person or Persons who shall desire the Benefitt of this
Act shall declare on his her or their corporal Oaths to be admin-
istred by the Naval Officer on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God
that such Serv^t or Serv^ts Negro or Negros exported within the said
Time of three months is or are part of the negros or Servants im-
ported or made Entry of, in 17^th Line of the same page after the
word notwithstanding insert the following Clause, and whereas
divers frauds have been committed by Persons not Inhabitants of this
Province importing negros from Pensilvania, Virginia & other Prov-
inces who made Sale of the said Negros without paym^t of the Duties
arising on such Negros for prevention whereof for the future Be it
Enacted by the Authority Advice & Consent afs^d that all & every
Person or Persons in whose Custody any negro or Negros so im-
ported into this Province shall be found shall be deemed to be the
Importer or Importers and liable to pay the Duties by Law to the
Naval Officer of the District where the said Persons reside under the
Penalties by former Acts of Assembly in such Cases inflicted upon

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the Importer or Importers of any Negro or Negros concealed kept
back or unaccounted for by him her or them to be recovered in the
Manner & to the uses directed in the afs^d Act of Assembly
Signed p order John Ross Ct Up. Ho.

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