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6 ANNE.
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CHAP. II
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Passed 15th
April 1707. |
An Act to prevent the Abuse of breaking open, and concealing, public
and private
Letters. Lib. LL. N° 3. fol. 275.
REP. 1715, ch. 2. |
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A new Act made 1713, ch. 2.
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CHAP. III.
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| Ditto. |
An Act for the Relief of * Thomas Manning, of Calvert
County. Lib. LL.
N° 3. fol. 279. PR. |
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* A Petitioner for Debt. A Supplementary Act
1720, ch. 23.
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CHAP. IV.
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| Ditto. |
An Act against Forging and Counterfeiting of Foreign Coins,
Gold or Silver. Lib. LL. N° 3. fol.
281.
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Preamble.
Persons counterfeiting
foreign
Gold or
Silver Coins,
and the aiders
and Abettors,
For the first
Offence, to
be whipped,
pillored, and
cropped;
For the 2d
Offence, to
be branded
and banished. |
FORASMUCH as divers evil disposed Persons, have of late forged and
counterfeited several Foreign Coins, commonly received amongst her
Majesty's Subjects of this Province for Current in Payment, to the
great Damage of her Majesty's said Subjects, being thereunto encouraged
for
that there has not heretofore been any condign Punishment by Law provided
for such Offenders; wherefore, and in Order to deter such like Offenders
for
the Future, from such evil and pernicious Practices.
II. Be it Enacted,
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council, and Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That if any person or Persons, after the Puiblication
of
this Act, falsely forge, counterfeit, or * clip, any such kind of Coin,
of
Gold, or Silver, as is not the proper COin of the Kingdom of England;
or
shall aid, assist, or abett any Offender or Offenders doing the same, either
by
concealing them, or by any other Ways or Means countenance such Offenders
in their said Offences; every such Offender, his Aiders, Abettors and
Countenancers therein, for the first Offence shall be whipped, pillored,
and
cropped in both Ears: And for the second Offence, shall be Branded
on the
Cheek and Banished, upon due Conviction in any of her Majesty's Courts
of
Record within this Province.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON. |
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* Such Part of this Act as relates to clipping, is
repealed by 1729, ch. 2.
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CHAP. V.
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Passed 15th
April 1707. |
An ACT for preventing the Exportation of Tobacco out of this
Province by Land, before the Duties payable be paid,
or well
secured, to the several Officers appointed, or to be
appointed
for receiving the same. Lib. LL. N°
3. fol. 282.
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| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, for some Years past, it has been a frequent Practice by
several Merchants, and other Inhabitants, as well of this Province,
as of the Province of Pensylvania, and the Territories thereunto
belonging, to export by Land, from the upper Parts of this Province, into
Pensylvania, and the Territories thereof, great Quantities of Tobacco,
without
paying, or securing to be paid, the Duties and Customs due thereon by
the Statutes of England and the Laws of this Province, to the great
prejudice
of her Majesty, and the several persons interested in the said Duties,
and
the Trade of this Province: For PRevention whereof, for the future:
II. Be it Enacted,
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Province,
and the Authority of the same, That from and after then Publication
hereof,
all Planters, Merchants, Factors, and others, having Property for Disposal
of any Tobaccoes in the upper Parts of this Province, and who shall |
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