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which the Duties aforesaid are assessed, shall be Landed or
put on Shore out of any Vessel which shall import the same,
or any other, without due Entry of the same with the Officer
thereby appointed (upon Oath or Test of the said Person or
Persons importing of any of the aforesaid Commodities) for
collecting the same, in the Port or Place where such Com-
modity shall happen to be imported as aforesaid, or before the
Duty due and payable for the same be satisfied, or secured to
be satisfied and a Warrant for the landing or vending thereof
be signed by the Officer for that Purpose appointed; upon Pain
and Peril that all such Commodities lauded, vended or put on
Shore, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act,
shall be forfeited and lost, or the full Value thereof, the one
Half to be appropriated towards the Use of Public Schools
in the Several Counties, the other Half to the Informer, or
him or them that shall sue for the same; to be recovered by
Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information, wherein no
Essoin, Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed.
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An Act to prevent the tumultuous Meetings, and other Irregu-
larities of Negroes and other Slaves.
Whereas this present Sessions of Assembly have had under
their Consideration, the evil Consequences that do and may
attend the Suffering of Negro and other Slaves, to meet in
great Numbers on Sabbath and other Holy-Days, and keeping
of Horses, Cattle or Hogs of their own.
II. Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and
the Authority of the same, That the Justices of the several and
respective County Courts within this Province, be, and they are
hereby impowered and required, immediately after the Publica-
tion of this Act, and so yearly in November Court, to appoint
the Constable of every hundred, where the said Justices, at
their Discretion, shall think proper and expedient, to suppres
the Assembling and tumultuous Meeting of Negroes and other
Slaves; and that every Constable so to be appointed, shall be
obliged to repair once a Month, to all suspected Places with-
in his Hundred; and if at any such Place he shall find any
Negroes or other Slaves, belonging to the Owner of such
Place, not having a Licence under their Owner or Overseer's
Hand, that it shall and may be lawful for the Constable, and
he is by this Act required, to whip every such Negro on the
bare Back, at his Discretion, not exceeding Thirty-nine
Stripes.
III. And to the End that every Constable may be enabled
to put this Act in due Execution; Be it Enacted, That it may
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