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

Liber H. S.
No. I

p. 81

same, shall execute such Person or Persons, his, her, or their Goods,
and Chattels, after the said Tenth Day of June, for such Poll-Tax,
Assessments, Public or County Levies, in Current Money, at the Rate
of Twelve Shillings and Six Pence for every Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity.
And be it likewise Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for

[Persons
making To-
bacco may
pay Part in
Money.]

any Person or Persons making Tobacco, by themselves, his, her, or
their Children, Servants or Slaves, to pay what Tobacco he, she, or
they shall make in any One Year, during the Continuance of this
Act, towards the Discharge and Satisfaction of his, her, or their
several and respective Debts, due the same Year for the Poll-Tax to
the Clergy, and for Lawyers and Officers Fees, to be divided pro-
portionably between every such Creditor, and the remaining Part
of such Debts, to discharge and pay, in Current Money, at the Rate
of Twelve Shillings and Six Pence, for every Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco; any Thing in this Act, or any Law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

[To make
Oath that
they made
no more To-
bacco than
what they
have paid,
&c.]

Provided always, That every such Person or Persons making
Tobacco as aforesaid, before he, she, or they shall be received or
allowed to pay or discharge any Part of the Poll-Tax aforesaid,
Lawyers, or Officer Fees, in Current Money as aforesaid, do and shall
make Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, at or before the Tenth Day
of April, yearly, that he, she, or they, hath or have not, by him, her,
or them, his or their Children, Servants or Slaves, made any more
Tobacco than what he, she, or they, hath or have already paid towards
the Discharge and Satisfaction of the Poll-Tax due to the Clergy,
and Lawyers, and Officers Fees, except what he, she, or they, have
consumed, or shall consume, in his, her, or their Families, in such

[Such To-
bacco to be
paid by the
5th of
April.]

Year. Provided also, That such Person or Persons not making
Tobacco enough, as aforesaid, do pay the same, at or before the
Fifth Day of April, yearly, and likewise pay and satisfy, on the
Tenth Day of June, yearly, in the Current Money of this Province,
the Residue of the Poll-Tax due to the Clergy, Lawyers, and Officers
Fees, which the Tobacco, he she, or they, shall so pay, shall be insuffi-
cient to discharge and satisfy.

[Penalties
and Forfei-
tures how to
be recovered
and applied.]

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all
the Penalties and Forfeitures in this Act mentioned, and not herein
before particularly appropriated, shall be recovered in the Name of
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, One Moiety thereof to
be particularly applied towards defraying the Charge of the County
where the Offence shall be committed, and the other Half to the

[Prosecu-
tions to be
in a year.]

p. 82

Person that will inform or sue for the same; and where the Penalty
or Forfeiture exceeds Fifty Shillings, Current Money, or Six Hun-
dred Pounds of Tobacco, the same to be recovered in any Court of
Record; and where the Penalty or Forfeiture does not exceed the
, aforesaid Sums, to be recovered before One Magistrate, as in the