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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1762-1763
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before directed and shall not pay in Gold and Silver as aforesaid
the Poll Tax due to the Clergy Lawyers and Officers fees Assess-
ments for Building or Repairing Churches Publick or County Levies
on or before the tenth day of June in every Year during the Con-
tinuance of this Act that then and in such Case the Sheriff or other
Officer who shall be legally Authorized to receive and Collect the
same shall Execute such Person or Persons his her or their Goods
and Chattells after the said tenth day of June for such Poll Tax
Assessments Publick or County levies in Gold and Silver as regu-
lated in Tobacco as aforesaid

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it likewise enacted that it shall and may be lawfull for
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 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 Proportion-
ably between every such Creditor and the remaining part of such
Debts to discharge and pay in Gold and Silver any thing in this Act
or any law to the Contrary Notwithstanding

[Persons
making
Tobacco
may pay
Part in
Money]

Provided always that every such Person or Persons making To-
bacco as aforesaid before he she or they shall be Allowed to pay or
discharge any part of the Poll Tax aforesaid Lawyers or Officers
ffees in Gold and Silver 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 Dis-
charge and Satisfaction of the Poll Tax due to the Clergy and
Lawyers and Officers fees except what he She or they have con-
sumed or shall consume in his her or their Families in such Year

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

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 Gold or Silver as aforesaid the residue of the Poll Tax
due to the Clergy Lawyers and Officers ffees which the Tobacco
he She or they shall so pay shall be insufficient to discharge and
Satisfy

[Such
Tobacco to
be paid by
the 5th of
April]

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all the
Penalties and forfeitures in this Act mentioned and not herein Par-
ticularly Appropriated shall be recovered in the manner of the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary one Moiety thereof to be Par-
ticularly Applied towards defraying the Charge of the County where
the Offence shall be committed and the other half to the Person that
will inform or sue for the same and where the Penalty or forfeiture
exceeds Six hundred Pounds of Tobacco the same to be recovered

[Penalties
and For-
feitures how
to be re-
covered and
applied]



 
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