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And forasmuch as the Permitting Tobacco in Bulk or Parcel to
be Water-Born on pretense of being carried to the Warehouses
established by this Act may give great Opportunity to the Clan-
destine running the same on Board the Ships lying at or near the
said Warehouses whereby the evil of exporting Trash Tobacco may
be still continued
Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any
Person taking upon himself to carry any Tobacco to or from any of
the said Warehouses in his Sloop Boat or other Vessel for hire
shall Persume to take on Board or Permit or suffer to be taken on
Board any Tobacco whatsoever in Bulk or Parcells such Tobacco
shall not only be forfeited and may be seized by any Person or
Persons Whatsoever but such Master or Shipper Offending herein
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[No Tobacco
to be taken
on board any
Sloop, Boat
etc in Bulk
or Parcels]
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shall forfeit any pay Two hundred and forty Pounds of Tobacco
for every hundred Pounds weight of such Tobacco and so Pro-
portionably for a greater or lesser Quantity and the Master or com-
mander of any Ship or Vessel wherein any Tobacco in Bulk or
Parcell shall be found shall over and above the Forfeiture thereof
be liable to the same Penalty To be recovered if it doth not exceed
Twelve hundred Pounds of Tobacco before any three Justices of the
Peace of any County near the Place where such Ship Sloop or Boat
or other Vessell shall lie and if it Exceeds twelve hundred Pounds of
Tobacco in any Court of Record by Action of Debt wherein the
Plaintiff shall recover Costs and every Servant Slave or other
Person employed in Navigating any such Sloop Boat or other
Vessell who shall connive at or conceal the taking or receiving on
Board any Tobacco in Bulk or Parcell as aforesaid shall by Order
of any one Justice receive on his bare Back Thirty nine Lashes well
laid on and if such Sloop Boat or other Vessel be under the care
and Management of a Servant who cannot Satisfy and pay the said
Penalty then such Servant and every other Person employed under
him who shall be Guilty of Conniving at or Concealing the taking
on Board Tobacco in Bulk or Parcell as aforesaid shall upon Com-
plaint thereof made to any Justice of the Peace have and receive
by Order of the said Justice Thirty nine Lashes well laid on and
if such Servant shall be again Trusted with the Care and Manage-
ment of any Sloop Boat or other Vessel and shall be Convicted a
Second Time of taking or receiving on Board the same any Tobacco
in Bulk or Parcell Contrary to the Directions of this Act the Owner
of such Servant shall forfeit and pay the like sum of two hundred
and forty Pounds of Tobacco for very hundred Pounds weight of
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[Penalty and
Punishment
of Persons
conniving at.
the taking on
board such
Tobacco]
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