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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly January 1637/8-September 1664
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Assembly Proceedings, April 1650. 303


Province by an equal Assessment upon the Persons and Estates
of the Inhabitants thereof, any thing in this Acte or in any
other Acte to the Contrary in any wise notwithstandinge

P. R. O.

Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53

An Act prohibiting the transportation
or Sale of his Lordship's Ordinance Am-
munition Goods Chatties &c.

Bee it Enacted by the Lord Proprietary with the advise and
Consent of the upper and lower house of this Assembly that
what person or persons soever shall att any time hereafter pre-
sume to transporte or cause to bee transported out of this Pro-
vince any of the Ordinances Carryadges for Ordinance Gunns
Shott powder or other Ammunition to the vallue of twenty
shillings or upwards provided or to bee provided from tyme to
tyme hereafter by his Lordship or his heirs Lords and Proprie-
tarys of this Province or by a Generall Assembly of the In-
habitants of this Province or otherwise for the publick defence
here without speciall and lawfull warrant from his Lordship and
his heires Lords and Proprietarys of this Province for soe doe-
ing under his and their hand and seale att Armes and recorded
and kept in the Secretarys Office of this Province shall bee
punished with Death and Confiscation of all his and their
Lands Goods and Chatties within this Province to the Lord
Proprietary of this Province and his heires Lords and Proprie-
tarys thereof, And Bee itt further Enacted by the Authority and
with the Assent aforesaid that whosoever shall att any tyme
hereafter presume to seize sell or knowingly purchase or
accept of any of the Lords Proprietary or his heires Lords
and Proprietarys of this Province their Ordinances Carryadges
Gunns Ammunition Cattle Servants Goods or any other thing
whatsoever within this Province or any Hand Porte Creeke or River
therunto belonging which shall from tyme to tyme appertayne
to him and them without lawfull warrant and Authority for soe
doeing from his Lordship and his heires Lords and Proprietarys
of this Province under his and their hand and seale att Armes
and recorded and kept in the Secretary's Office of this Province.
Every Offender herein shall forfeit unto his Lordship and his
heires Lords and Proprietarys of this Province treble the vallue
of any such Ordinances Carryadges Gunns Ammunition Cattle
servants goods or any other things soe unlawfully seized or
sould disposed of purchased or accepted of as aforesaid, to bee
leavyed upon the person and Estate of every such Offender.
And all such sayles disposalls purchases and acceptances shall
bee voyd and null. And are hereby declared unlawfull And
every such Offender shall bee allsoe imprisoned during the


 

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