Acts. 469

Contract or Agreement shall be and remain in full Force and Effect
any thing in this Act contained to the Contrary Notwithstanding

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further enacted that all Bonds (with Power of Attorney
to Confess Judgment) taken for Money in Lieu of Tobacco between
the fifteenth day of May Seventeen hundred and forty seven and the
first day of December Seventeen hundred and forty eight shall be
and are hereby made Void and of no Effect And it shall not be
lawfull for any Justices of any Court within this Province to render
or give Judgment on such Bonds by Virtue of such Power of At-
torney and no Clerk or Clerks of any Court or Courts 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 afeer the fifteenth
Day of May One thousand Seven hundred and forty Seven untill
the Court Judge or Justice before whom a Judgment is or shall be
Offered to be entered up be Satisfied that the Defendant or Defend-
ants is or are actually run away nor even then unless the Plaintiff
or his Attorney in Fact or one Acquainted 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

[Judgment
bonds taken
for Money
in lieu of
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 Majestys
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 lawfull 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

[Encourage-
ment for
Persons not
making To-
bacco]

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 Assessments
for Building or repairing Churches in Gold and Silver as regulated
by this Act 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 therof in any wise Notwithstanding

p. 479

[To pay off
Taxes and
Fees, in
Gold and
Silver, as
regulated by
this Act]

Provided always That every Person or Persons Allowed by this
Act to pay Gold and Silver instead of Tobacco due as aforesaid shall
make Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker that he did not in the Year
Preceeding by himself or by his Children Servants or Slaves make
any Tobacco for Sale

[To be
sworn that
they made
no Tobacco
for sale]