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In Line 10, between the Words Plaint and Information, insert the
Word or; and in the same Line leave out the Words or Indictment.
In Page 2, Line 3, between happen and by, insert or the Party re-
sides, From the Word That, in Line 5 of the same Page, to the
Word is in the 9th Line, to be omitted; and insert the following
Words, As often as any Magistrate shall be informed by any credi-
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 47
May 23
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ble Person, on Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, that he suspects
and verily believes some trashy Tobacco to be in any particular
Tobacco-House, Storehouse, Warehouse, Barn, or other Outhouse,
Ship, or other Vessel, Inclosure, or other Place whatsoever, designed
or intended to be carried 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 13th Line of the same Page,
insert the Word it; and the following Amendment in a Parenthesis,
(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 Inspecting-Houses, and other Houses used by Inspectors, for
the convenient Carrying on and Execution of the Inspection-Law).
After the Word Case, in the i8th Line of the same Page, to the
Word sold in the 19th Line, to be left out; and the following Words
inserted, the same Quantity so informed against. In Page 5, Line 3,
between the Words then there, insert and. In the 6th Line of the
same Page, instead of the Words Bill of Indictment, insert Present-
ment. Between the 17th and i8th Lines of the same Page, omit the
whole Interlineation. In Page 6, Line 2, after the Word not, to the
Word be, to be left out; and insert the Word intended. In the same
Page, the 5th Line, 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 aforesaid.
The three Provisoes, in the 7th Page, to be left out. The 8th and
9th Pages to be left out; and the loth Page, to be left out, to the
Word This, in the 24th Line.
" Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. Up. Ho."
George Plater, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to Mr.
Speaker a Petition of the Vestrymen, &c. of that Part of the late
Mr. Donaldson's Paiish, which lies in Charles County, praying an
Act to empower them to build a Church, &c. and a Petition of the
Inhabitants of the North Side of Elk River in Caecil County, and
others, praying an Act to build a new Court-House and Goal on the
public Ground in Charles-Town, &c. Which Petitions were severally
Indorsed, " By the Upper House, referred to the Consideration of
the Lower House."
On reading the Amendments proposed by the Upper House, to
the Bill for preventing the Sale and Exportation of trashy Tobacco,
&c. the Question was put, Whether this House agrees to leave out
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