XII.  Every Master or Mistress who shall deny to
give such List, or conceal any Taxable Person in their
Family, he or she shall forfeit and pay for every such
Offence, and for every Person so concealed 500 l. of
Tobacco.  And every Constable neglecting his Duty,
shall pay 500 l. of Tobacco, half to the King, half to the
Informer.
    XIII.  If any Inhabitant of this Province shall purchase
any Taxable Person, he shall with convenient
speed give notice thereof to the Constable of the Hundred,
who shall give an account to the next County
Court.
    XXIV.  All Male Children born and resident in this
Province after the Age of 16 years; all Male Children
Servants imported of the Age of 16; all Slaves, either
Male or Female imported of the Age of 16; and all
Freemen within this Province (except Clergy-men and
poor impotent Persons that receive Alms from the County)
shall be accounted Taxables.

                    Tobacco.
 
    I.  An. 4. W. & M. 1692. p. 9.  Whosoever shall
dispose of any tobacco or other Goods seized by the
Sheriff for Fines, or Levies, or Officers Fees, or alter or
scratch out the mark, or change the quality of such Tobacco
so received by teh Sheriff or others, without lawful
Order or Warrant for so doing, he shall upon Conviction,
restore fourfold to the Party grieved, and stand
in the Pillory 2 hours.
    II.  No Person shall be prosecuted upon this Act after
3 years from the time the fact shall be committed.
    III.  An. 11. W. 3. 1699. p. 78.  Every Inhabitant
within this Province having a Plantation, whereon he
maketh or causeth to be made any Tobacco, shall build
and erect upon every such Plantation a good tight House,
with Door, Lock and Key, sufficient to contain the Tobacco
made there.
    IV.  Every Inhabitant having such a Plantation as
aforesaid, that shall pay away or dispose of any Tobacco
to any Merchant or other Person, shall notwithstanding
secure and keep the said Tobacco, as he wou'd his
own proper Goods, for the space of one year and no