340 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

within this Province, shall issue or make out any Execution, upon
such Judgment. And that during the Continuance of this Act, no
Judgments shall be entered on any Judgment Bonds for Money,
taken after the Fifteenth Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Forty Seven, until the Court, Judge, or Justice, before
whom a Judgment is or shall be offered to be entered up, be satisfied,
that the Defendant or Defendants, is or are actually run away, nor
even then, unless the Plaintiff or his Attorney in Fact, or one ac-
quainted with the Transaction, makes Oath, that the Bond was not
passed for a Tobacco Debt, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning
of this, or the aforesaid other recited Act.

p. 79

[Encourage-
ment for
Persons not
making

Tobacco,]

And, whereas the excessive Quantity of Tobacco made, may, in
some Measure, depreciate that Branch of Trade: In order therefore
to encourage the manufacturing of Hemp, Flax, and other proper
Materials, for the necessary Cloathing and Use of his Majesty's
Subjects within this Province, and to divert Part of the People
from labouring in Tobacco; Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice
and Consent aforesaid, That from and after the end of this Session
of Assembly, it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons,
not making Tobacco by themselves, Servants or Slaves, within this
Province, to pay, at or before the Tenth Day of April yearly, or as
the Business, or Services, they may want in any of the Offices, shall
be done, during the Continuance of this Act, as well the Poll Tax
due to the Clergy, as all Lawyers, and Officers Fees, and Assess-
ments for building, or repairing Churches, in the Current Money of
this Province, rating Tobacco at Twelve Shillings and Six Pence per

[To pay off
Taxes &
Fees, 12 s.
6d. per
Hundred.]

Hundred, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity;
and that such Payment, or Tender thereof, and Refusal, shall be a
full Satisfaction and Discharge for the same, though charged in
Tobacco; any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom, or any Thing con-
tained in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwith-
standing.

[To be
sworn that
they made no
Tobacco for
Sale.]

Provided always, That every Person or Persons allowed by this
Act to pay Money instead of Tobacco due as aforesaid, shall make
Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, That he did not, in the Year
preceding, by himself, or by his Children, Servants, or Slaves, make
any Tobacco for Sale.

[Inhabi-
tants of this
Province
not making
Tobacco in
it.]

And be it Enacted, That where any Person or Persons within
this Province, shall have taxable Persons in different Counties, and
doth not by himself, or themselves, Children, Servants, or Slaves,
make Tobacco within this Province, That it shall and may be lawful
for such Person or Persons, to make Oath, to that Purpose, before
any Justice of the County where such Person or Persons shall reside,
and a Certificate, or Certificates of such Oath, from the said Justice,
shall be sufficient to any Sheriff, in a different County, to receive
Money in lieu of Tobacco, from such Person or Persons, for such
Taxables.