Acts. 455

Ship, or other Vessel, therein to export the same out of this Prov-
ince, and every Owner or Shipper thereof, who shall cause, permit,
or suffer to be shipped off from any Key, Wharff, Landing, or other
Place, than from one of the Inspecting-House Landings in this
Province, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, any
Hogshead or Hogsheads of Tobacco, shall for every such Hogshead
forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money, one Half
thereof to the Informer, or to him, her, or them that shall sue for
the same, and the other Half thereof to the Use of the public School
of the County where such Offence shall be committed; to be recov-
ered in the County Court, with Costs of Suit, by Action of Debt,
Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoyn, Protection, or
Wager of Law shall be allowed; any Law, Usage, or Custom, to the
contrary thereof in any wise -notwithstanding.

Liber B. L. C.
[No To-
bacco to be
exported
from any
other Land-
ings than
what be-
long to
Inspecting-
Houses.]

This Act to continue until the first Day of December, which shall
be in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
fif ty- three.

[Continu-
ance of
this Act.]

15 May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I will this Be a Law
Sam: Ogle

The great Seal in
wax appendant

15 May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up Ho.

An Act continuing an Act entituled, An Act to prevent the ill Prac-
tices of Sheriffs, in the Collecting and Payment of the Public and
County Levies.

No. 2

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 an Act entituled, An Act to prevent the ill Practices
of Sheriffs, in the Collecting and Payment of the Public and County
Levies, made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of
Annapolis, the twenty-first Day of September, Anno Domini One
thousand seven hundred and forty-two, be, and is hereby continued
' to be and remain in full Force, for and during the Term of three
Years, and unto the End of the next Session of Assembly which
shall happen after the End of the said three Years.

[An Act
continued.]

21^st May 1750
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M Macnemara Cl lo ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this Be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

The great Seal in
wax appendant

I^st June 1750
Read & Assented to by
the Upper House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.