512 Assembly Proceedings, May 15-June 8, 1751.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 34
May 23

By the Lower house of Assembly 22^d May 1751
Read the first Time and ordered to lye on the Table
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.
By the Lower house of Assembly 23^d May 1751.
Read the second time and will pass
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo H.

Read the first Time in this house and Ordered to lye on the Table
Read the Second time the Bill Entituled an Act to prevent more
effectually the Sale and Exportation of Trashy & unmerchantable
Tobacco and will pass with the following Amendments, In Page I^st
Line 9^th after the Word, happen, put, or the Party resides, in the

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10^th line Between the word, Plaint, and, Information, insert, or, and
in the same Line leave out the words, or Indictment, in the 3^d Line
of 2^d Page between the words, happen, and, by, insert, or the Party
resides, from the word, That, in the 5^th Line of the same Page, to the
word, is, in the 9^th Line to be omitted and insert the following words ;
As often as any Magistrate shall be Informed by any Creditable Per-
son on Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker, that he Suspects and verily
believes Some Trashy Tobacco to be in any Particular Tobacco
house, Store house Barn or other outhouse Ship or other Vessel,
Inclosure or other Place whatsoever designed or Intended to be Car-
ried or Exported out of the Province without Inspection It shall and
may be Lawful to and for such Magistrate, and he, after the word,
into, in the 13^th Line of the same Page insert, It, And the following
Amendment in a Parenthous /except such house or Place be on the
Plantation whereon such Trashy or Unmerchantable Tobacco shall
appear by the Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker of the Owner to have
been made, and also Except Inspection houses and other houses used
by Inspectors for the convenient Carrying on and Execution of the
Inspection Law/ after the word, Care, in the18^th Line of the same
Page to the word Sold, in the 19^th Line to be left out and the follow-
ing words to be inserted, the same Quantity so Informed against, in
Page 5^th Line 3^d leave out the words, Then There, insert, and, in
the 6^th Line of the same Page instead of the words, Bill of Indict-
ment, insert, Presentment, between the 17^th & 18^th Lines of the same
Page omitt the whole Interlination, in the 6 Page line 2^d after the
word, not, to the word, be, to be left out and insert the word, in-
tended, in the 5^th Line of the same Page after the word, Penalties,
insert, other than the loss and burning of such Trashy Tobacco,
instead of the words, by this Act on such Tobacco so taken under
Carriage as af^d, The three Provisoes in 7^th Page to be left out, The
8^th & 9^th Pages to be left out, and the 10^th Page to be left out to the
word, This, in the 24^th Line; Sent to the Lower house by Edmund
Jenings Esq.
Adjourned till 3 of the Clock in the Afternoon