Arts. 507

Person or Persons shall, and they are hereby obliged to pay unto the
said Clerk, the Sum of Two Shillings and Six Pence Current Money.
And be it further Enacted, That every Master of a Vessel or other

Liber H. S.

No. i

Person, importing into this Province, by Water, except from Great-
Britain, any Horse, Mare, Colt, or Gelding, shall, and is hereby
obliged to enter the same with the Naval Officer of the Port where
such Vessel shall be entered, and pay unto such Naval Officer the
Duty, as aforesaid, for each Horse, Mare, Colt, or Gelding, so im-
ported; and the said Naval Officer shall give unto such Master of a
Vessel or other Person, a Permit for the Sale of such Horse, Mare,
Colt, or Gelding.

[If brought
by Water to
be entered
with the
Naval
Officer.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That if, after the End of this Session
of Assembly, any Person or Persons whatsoever, shall be found
travelling with any Horse, Mare, Colt, or Gelding, or Horses. Mares,
Colts, or Geldings, brought from any other Colony into this Prov-
ince, to be sold, bartered, or exchanged, without a Certificate as
aforesaid, or any Master of a Vessel or other Person, importing any
Horse, Mare, Colt, or Gelding, as aforesaid, shall be found offering
to sell, barter, or exchange, the same, without having first obtained
a Permit as aforesaid, all and every such Person and Persons shall
forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds current Money, as aforesaid,
for every Horse, Mare, Colt, or Gelding, so offered to be sold,
bartered, or exchanged; one Half to the Informer, or him or them
that shall sue for the same; the other Half to be paid to the Com-
missioners or Trustees aforesaid, and applied as herein after directed ;
to be recovered before one Magistrate in a summary Manner.
And whereas it is convenient for the Collection of the Land-Tax,
that his Lordship's Rent-Ron-Keeper should deliver Copies of the
Rent-Rolls to the several Receivers and Collectors of the Tax in the
several Counties, in this Province, for the ascertaining the Quantity
of Lands in each County, wherein such Tax is laid; we therefore
pray that it may be enacted,

P. 237

[Penalty for
selling with-
out a Cer-
tificate or
Permit.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all
and every Person or Persons holding any Tract or Parcel of Land,
within this Province, in an Estate of Freehold at the least, shall, and
he, she, or they, are hereby directed and required to pay to the Re-
ceiver or Collector of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
his Quit-Rents, for the Time being, for the County where such
Lands lie, yearly and every Year, during the Continuance of this Act,
by even and equal Portions, at Michaelmas and Lady-Day the first
Payment wehereof to begin and be made on or before the twenty-
ninth Day of September next ensuing the Sum of One Shilling Cur-
rent Money for every Hundred Acres and so in Proportion for a
greater or less Quantity for which such Person or Persons is or are
charged on the Debt-Book or Debt-Books for Quit-Rents, delivered

[A Land-
Tax of 1 s.
on each
Hundred
Acres.]