344 Assembly Proceedings^ Sept. 5-Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L,

No. 64.

said or shall refuse to provide a Sufficient person to Supply
his place by serving in the said Office and taking the Oaths
aforesaid that then such person so refusing shall be fin'd to
her Majesty in the Sume of ffive hundred pounds of Tobacco
towards the Defraying the publiq Charge of that County
and that such Justice of peace before whom such refusall
shall be made shall issue his Warrant to the Sheriff to levy
the said ffine by distress and Sale of the Goods and Chattells
of such person fin'd as aforesaid returning to him the Over-
plus which said Sheriff is hereby impowered and required to
levy the same accordingly and render Account thereof to the
Justice of peace of that County at the time of laying the
County Leavy.
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by and with
the Advice and Consent aforesaid that every Constable shall
on or before the twentyeth day of June in every Year respec-
tively repair in person to every house or Habitation within
his hundred and there require of the Master Mistress Dame
or other Chief person of the ffamily a true List from under
their hand of all their Taxable persons they and every of them
have within their respective ffamilys out of which list the said
Constables shall make two fair lists under his hand and one
he shall send to the Sheriff of the County and the other he
shall present to the next County Court to be sett up and
if in Case any Master Mistress or Dame or other Chief per-
sons of a ffamily shall refuse or deny to give such List or in
their Absence leave at their dwelling houses or Quarters such
a List and Account of their Taxable persons of their severall
ffamilys or in the said Account shall conceale any Taxable

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person or persons in his or their ffamily for every such Offence
or not giving a true List and Account of them to the Consta-
bles by the Time required and for every taxable person by
them Conceald shall forfeit and pay the Sume of five hundred
pounds of Tobacco for every such Offence one half thereof
to her Majesty her heires and Successors for the Support of
Government the other half to the Informer or him or them
that will sue for the same to be recovered in any Court of
Record of this Province wherein no Essoyn protection or
wager of Law to be allow'd

September 21^st 1704 September 21^st 1704

Read and assented to by the Read and assented to by her
house of Delegates Majestys hon^ble Councill
W Taylard Clk hD. W Bladen Cl Concil.

Maryland October 3^d 1704

On the behalf of her Majesty &c I will this be a Law.
Jo. Seymour