198 Assembly Proceedings, September 1642.

Liber P R

Counties, and from each Coun[ty to] every hundred, and from
thence to particular persons, according to the proportion [of]
their charge to the expedition; vntill the said charge be fully
satisfied & recompenced.

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25 An Act providing some things for the better Safety
of the Colony.

Whensoever the necessary defence of the Province or any
part thereof against the assault or invasion of the Indians or
other enemies shall require it, it shalbe lawfull for the Lord
Proprietary or his Lieutenant Generall, to presse or take any
vessells, men, provisions, armes ammunition or other things
necessary for defence, at the most vsuall rates of the country at
that time, and the price or hire thereof to charge vpon the in-
habitants of the Province in such manner & according to such
proportions as the said Lieuten^t Generall with the advice &
assent of the Counsell or the maior part of them then present
in the County shall think fitt.
Provided that such charges amount not in one yeare to above
foure thousand weight of tobacco in S^t Maries County, nor in
Kent to above two thousand weight of tobacco
And if any person pressed to goe vpon any publique Service
or expedition by authority of any Law of the Province, receive
any corporall harme in such service whereby he shalbe disabled
to follow his labour or calling, he shalbe cured, and he his wife
& children (if he have any and not otherwise meinteinable)
shalbe meinteined till he be able to work, at the charge of the
Province or County, in such manner & according to such rates
&; proportions as the Court shall assesse.
And if any inhabitant be constrained (by publique order) to
forsake his house or goods for the assisting of others or for
common safety, whereby such house or goods come to spoile
or harme, such person so harmed or spoiled, vpon proofe
thereof shall have his spoile or losses repaired by a publique
contribution of the whole County, where such case happens, in
such manner & according to such proportions as shalbe assessed
by the Court. This Act to endure for three yeares from this
day.

These Acts were published at S^t Maries vnder the Great
Seale, the fifteenth day of September 1642