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L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
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And further for the Replacing of the said Sum of three Thousand
Pounds, Be it likewise Enacted by the Authority, Advice and con-
sent aforesaid, That from and after the End of this Session of As-
sembly the Sum of forty Shillings Current money shall be paid for
every Horse, Mare, or Gelding, brought into this Province for Sale,
either by Land or Water, by the Person or Persons bringing in or
importing the same.
And be it further Enacted, That any Person or Persons bringing
in or importing any Horse, Mare or Gelding, or Horses, Mares, or
Geldings, by Land or Water, shall immediately, and before exposing
such Horse, Mare, or Gelding, or Horses, Mares or Geldings, to
Sale, enter the same with the Clerk of the County Court where such
Horse, Mare, or Gelding, or Horses, Mares, or Geldings shall be
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imported by Water, or the first or second County through which
they shall be brought by Land, and immediately upon such Entry
pay unto the Clerk with whom such Entry shall be made, the said
Duty or Sum of forty shillings, for every such Horse, Mare, or Geld-
ing, or Horses, Mares, or Geldings, so imported, or brought in, as
aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, That such Entry shall contain the
Colour, Natural and artificial marks, of every such Horse, Mare, or
Gelding, or Horses, Mares or Geldings, so as aforesaid imported
and entered: And that upon the Payment of the Duty and Entry
being made as aforesaid, such County Clerk shall, and he is hereby
directed, to give to such Bringer in, or Importer, so paying and
entering as aforesaid, a Copy of such Entry, with a Receipt for the
Duty aforesaid, signed with such Clerk's proper name, and under
the Seal of the same County, for which Entry, Copy, and Seal, the
said Importer shall pay unto such Clerk, in full of all Fees, the Sum
of one Shilling Current money, for each Horse, Mare or Gelding, so
entered and certified as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, That every County Clerk within this
Province, with whom such Entry shall be made, as is by this Act
directed, shall, and he is hereby obliged to pay the said Duty, so by
him or them received, at the next sitting of the County Court, in
open Court to the Sherif of the same County, and an Entry thereof
make in the Records or Proceedings of the same Court, on Pain of
forfeiting and paying the Sum of five Pounds like money, for each
Horse, Mare, or Gelding, so entered, and Duty omitted by him to
be paid as aforesaid, to be recovered and applied to the uses herein
mentioned.
And be it likewise Enacted, That the Justices of every County
Court, where such Entries and Duties have been made and paid,
shall, and they are hereby directed to order the Clerk of the same
County to return an Account of the Yearly Amount of such Duty,
and by whom paid, distinctly made, at every August Court, to the
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