304 Assembly Proceedings, March 20, 1734/5-April 24, 1735.

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proper County Court, by action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information ;
wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That if any Master of a Ship, or other Sea Vessel, within
this Province, or any other Person, between the said last Day of
August, and the Twenty Fifth Day of November, in any Year,
during the Continuance of this Act, shall receive, take, and put on
board such Ship or Sea Vessel, any Hogshead or Hogsheads of
Tobacco, every such Master shall incur the Forfeiture and Penalty
of Fifty Shillings Current Money, for every Hogshead of To-
bacco which shall be received, taken, or put on board by the said
Master, or any other Person; One Moiety of the said Penalty to the
said Lord Proprietary, His Heirs and Successors, the other Half to
the Informer, or him, her, or them, that will sue for the same: To be
recovered before a single Magistrate, as in Case of small Debts,
where the Sum does not exceed fifty Shillings: And where the Fine
exceeds Fifty Shillings, to be recovered in the proper County Court,
by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information; wherein no Essoyn,
Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
This Act to continue for Three years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Three Years.

Chap. XXII
p. 24

An Act for applying the Duty of Three Pence per Hogshead, raised
by the Act herein mentioned.

Whereas by an Act of Assembly, made at a Session of Assembly,
held at the City of Annapolis, the Eleventh Day of July, Anno
Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Two, intituled,
An Act for laying an Imposition of Three Pence per Hogshead, on
all Tobacco to be Exported out of this Province, for the Time therein
mentioned, it was Enacted, That for all Tobacco that, should be Ex-
ported out of this Province, from the Twenty Ninth Day of Septem-
ber then next following, until the Twenty Ninth Day of September,
which should be in the Year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and
Thirty Three, there should be raised, collected, and paid, to the sev-
eral Naval-Officers within this Province, Three Pence Sterling, in
Specie, or good Bills of Exchange, for every Hogshead of Tobacco ;
and Three Pence Sterling, for every Six Hundred Pounds of To-
bacco in any other Package than Hogsheads, and in Proportion for
any other Quantity; which Duty was by the said Act to be applied
and disposed of in such Manner as should be directed and appointed
by the Governour, or President for the Time being, and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly, and not otherwise; which Money so
raised, now remaining in the several Treasurers Hands, and this
General Assembly taking into their Consideration the Necessity of