Assembly Proceedings, July — August 1642, 161

every acre wherein default Shall be made and so rateably
for a lesse quantity unlesse there appear just cause to excuse
the default The one half of which forfeiture to be to the
Surveyor and the other to the Sherrife And the Sherrif
of each County & Surveyor Generall Shall take an oath to

Liber
C & W H

veiw respectively every Plantation within the County's Respec-
tively yearly between the first of May & the first of September
and to enquire by what means they may of the hands plant-
ing Tobacco in every Plantation and truely to certifye what
quantity of Corne ground is planted and tended in every
such plantation This Act to endure till the end of the next
Assembly

An Act limiting the exportacon of Corne

Noe Corne from and after the midst of October in any
yeare of the growth of the Province as well Indian as other
may be exported out of the Province untill the midst of Feb-
uary following at the soonest & at other time of the year noe
such corne may be exported without the lycence in writing of
the Leivt^t Generall and Councell upon the Consideration of the
Store of the Country To which purpose one or more persons in
every hundred appointed thereunto by the Leivten^t Generall or
Commander of any County calling to him one or two Neigh-
bours shall at some time in January yearly veiw the Store or
quantity of Corne then being in every family within the hun-
dred and estimate the same and enquire and take the names
or number of the persons belonging to every such family and
certifie the same upon oath before the first of Febuary Yearly
unto the Leivten^t Generall or to the Commander of the
County by him to be Certifyed without delay to the Leivten^t
Generall And all persons exporting or attempting to export
before, or without such lycence as aforesaid Shall forfeit the
Corne so exported or attempted to be exported or the
value of it and it Shall be judged out of the province if it
be sold or delivered to any Indians This Act to endure till
the end of the next Assembly

p. 101

An Act against Ingrossers & Forestallers

Noe person may ingrose Corne within the Province to be
determined by the Court upon pain of fine to the value of the
Corne soe ingrossed rating it at the price it was Sold at by
such Ingrosser the one third of which forfeiture to be to the
Person informing or procecuting against the Offender Noe
person may buy bespeake Promise or Contract for any goods
or Servants brought or Comeing in to the province with intent

p. 102