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or Persons, who shall have any such Armour, Gunpowder, and Am-
munition, or any of them, to the Use of any such Papist, shall refuse
to declare or manifest to the said Four Justices, or either of them,
what Armour, he, she or they have, or shall have, or shall let, hinder,
or disturb, the Delivery thereof to the said Justices, or to any other
Person or Persons authorized by their Warrant to take and seize the
same, then every such Person, so offending, contrary to this Act in
this Behalf, shall forfeit and lose, to the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors, his and their said
Armour, Gunpowder, and Ammunition; and shall also be imprisoned
by Warrant of or from any Four Justices of the Peace of such
County, by the Space of Three Months, without Bail or Mainprize.
And to prevent the Importation of Irish Papists into this Province,
by Way of Newcastle on Delaware, Be it Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, That no Person whatever shall import or bring into this
Province from or by Way of Newcastle, or any other Part or Place
in the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware, or
from any Part or Place in the Province of Pennsylvania, any Irish
Servant or Servants, being Papists, whatsoever, on Pain of forfeit-
ing Twenty Pounds Current Money for every such Servant so by
him or them imported, or brought into this Province, as aforesaid.
Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall hinder any
Person or Persons, who shall remove from any of the Places afore-
said, in order to settle and reside within this Province, from bring-
ing with him, her, or them, such menial Servant or Servants as he,
she, or they, shall be possessed of at the Time of his, her, or their
Removal.
And be it further Enacted, that all the several Fines and For-
feitures imposed by this Act, shall be divided into two equal Parts,
whereof one Half shall be paid to the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, his Heirs and Succesors, for Support of Government;
the other Half to the Informer, or him or them that will sue for the
same, in any Court of Record, having Jurisdiction thereof, by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protec-
tion, or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That an Act made at
a General Assembly, begun and held at the Town and Port of
Annapolis the second Day of April, in the Year of our Lord God
Seventeen hundred and Six, entituled, An Act declaring several Acts
of Parliament, made in the Kingdom of England, to be in Force
within this Province, be, and is hereby repealed and made void.
This Act to continue for Five Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of the
said Five Years.
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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
May 22
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