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to be cut up or destroyed, any Tobacco Plants belonging to any other
Person or Persons, or by Threats, Menaces, or other sinister Means,
shall cause or excite any Person or Persons to cut up or destroy any
Tobacco or Tobacco Plants, belonging to any other Person or Per-
sons, and shall be thereof convict by due Course of Law, shall for-
feit and pay unto the Party grieved, One Hundred Pounds Sterling,
and suffer Six Months Imprisonment, without Bail or Mainprize,
and shall also remain in Prison, as in Execution, until the said Sum
be satisfied, in case the Offender be of sufficient Ability to pay the
same; and if the Offender shall not be of sufficient Ability, then and
in every such Case, the Offender shall remain and continue in Prison
for the Space of one whole Year, without Bail or Mainprize. Pro-
vided also, That the Party grieved, shall and may have and main-
tain his or her Action of Trespass, or other proper Action at Law,
for Recovery of Damages against the Offender; any thing herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Laws

And be it further Enacted, That any Person or Persons, who
shall after the End of this Session of Assembly, wilfully burn any ,
Tobacco belonging to any other Person, whether hanging, or in
Bulk, or packed, or any Tobacco-House or Houses, having therein
any Tobacco hanging, or in Bulk, or packed, and be thereof con-
victed by due Course of Law, and every Aider and Abettor of such
Offender, shall suffer Death as a Felon without Benefit of Clergy.

Burners of
Tobacco, or
Tobacco
House, to
suffer Death.

This Act to continue Three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly, which shall happen after the End of the said
Three Years.

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An Act continuing an Act to prevent the injuring of Harbours
within this Province, and for repealing the Act therein mentioned.

Chapter VI.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by .
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and '
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the abovementioned Act of Assembly entituled, An
Act to prevent the injuring Harbours within this Province, and
for repealing the Act therein mentioned, made at a Session of As-
sembly begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the Twentieth Day
of March, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-
four, be, and is hereby continued, and shall be in full Force for and
during the Term of Three Years, and unto the End of the next Ses-
sion of Assembly which shall happen after the said Three Years.

An Act con-
tinued.

An Act for reviving and continuing an Act of Assembly of this
Province entituled, An Act for ascertaining the Gauge and Tare
of Tobacco Hogsheads, and to prevent cutting, cropping, and
defacing Tobacco taken on board Ships or Vessels upon Freight.

Chap. VII.

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and

An Act re-
vived and
continued.