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pal or Principals had been Attainted Any Law usage or Custom to the
Contrary notwithstanding And to the End that all Persons may have
due Notice of the Contents of this Law Be it Enacted by the Author-
ity Advice and Consent aforesaid that the Sheriff of Each County
within this Province shall Cause the same to be Published at Each
of the first four County Courts that shall be held for his County
Next after the receipt of this Law for Publication on Pain of for-
feiting for Each neglect thereof the sum of ten Pounds Current
money To be recovered in the manner aforesaid And to the Uses
and Purposes aforesaid.

An Act for the Relief of William Torvor of London Merchant.

Whereas in the Year Seventeen hundred and thirty two Two hun-
dred and thirty Six Hogsheads of Tobacco Laden on board of and
Exported out of this Province in a Ship Called the Union of about
one hundred and Twenty Tons whereof Peter Dunscombe was
Master belonging to the said William Torvor and bound for London
which said Ship in her said Voyage Together with all her Cargoe
and the said Tobacco was Lost on the Cost of France near Cape
La hague And Whereas at the time of Shipping and Exportation

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of the said Tobacco the same was by the Laws then in force Charged
with Imposts and Dutys Amounting to three shillings and Six pence
Sterling per hogshead which said Imposts and Dutys on the said
Two hundred and thirty six hogsheads of Tobacco Amounting to
forty one Pounds Six Shillings Sterling were duly Paid and Satis-
fied by one of which said Laws a Liberty was given to the Master
Merchant or Owner of such Tobacco which should be lost before the
Delivery of Each Ship or Vessell at the Intended Port to Ship at
some other time so many Hogsheads of Tobacco as they had for-
merly paid Impost money for free and Clear of any of the said
Impositions And Whereas the said Law Giving the said Liberty is
Since Expired and no Allowance or Other Provision has been made
to and for the Master Merchant or Owner of the said Ship Union
for on Account of all the Dutys and Imposts so Paid for the said
two hundred and thirty Six hogsheads of Tobacco so lost as af^d
And Whereas the said William Torvor is by his Lordships Special
Direction to Export the said number of Hogsheads free from the
Duty of One Shilling Sterling per hogshead and by the Laws in
force free from the Dutys of Sixpence Sterling per hogshead
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary by & with the Advice & Consent of his Lordships Governour
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority
of the Same that in Lieu and Satisfaction of the remaining two
shillings ster. Per hogshead Part of the said three Shillings and
Six pence Sterling Per Hogshead Paid by the said William Torvor
on the said two hundred and thirty six hogsheads of Tobacco it shall

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