598 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

Session
Laws

inserted in each Page, and a List of such Laws made at the End of
each Session, with the Folio where they are Printed; all which the
said Jonas Green is hereby Required and Obliged to do, as well as
all other Services herein before mentioned, for the Yearly Salary
aforesaid.

Allowance
to be made,
tho' no
Session.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That al-
though it may so happen that in any Year during the continuance of
this Act, there should not be any Session of Assembly held within
this Province, whereby the said Jonas Green may be enabled to print
Laws, and deliver them within such Year, that then and in such case,
the said Justices of each respective County shall nevertheless, and
they are hereby directed and required to Levy the said Sum of Fif-
teen Pounds Current Money, free from deduction, in each respective
County, to be paid by the respective Sheriff of each County respec-
tively, to the said Jonas Green, or his Order, for his better Support
and Encouragement in serving this Province and residing within

Sheriff's
Com-
mission.

the same: For the Collection and Payment of which, or any other
Sum or Sums in this Act mentioned, there shall be allowed to the
said Sheriff respectively, a Commission of Five Pounds per Centum
and no more.

Proviso.

Provided always, and be it further Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid, That it shall and may be Lawful feu the Justices of each
respective County within this Province, and they are hereby required,

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not to Pay the said Jonas Green the said Fifteen Pounds so to be
Levied for his Use aforesaid, unless it shall be made appear to them,
that the Laws of the present and future Assemblies, shall be Printed
or Delivered in the manner before directed, within the Space of Four
Months next after the Conclusion of each Assembly; any Thing
herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Continuance
of the Act.

This Act to continue until the Twenty-fifth Day of December,
which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Forty-five, and no longer.

Chapter V.

An Act to prevent cutting up Tobacco Plants, destroying of Tobacco
and Tobacco-Houses, and for ascertaining the Punishment of
Criminals guilty of the said Offences.

Preamble.
[Continued
by 1747 Ch.
n, made
perpetual by
1751 Ch. 7]

Whereas, Tobacco is the Staple of this Province, and that thereon
depends the Livelyhood of many of the Inhabitants, as well as the
most considerable Branch of Trade; and that it is as requisite that
the Property of the People should be as well secured in the Fields
or open Houses, as in their Dwelling-Houses; it is therefore prayed
that it may be Enacted,

Penalty on
such as cut
up Tobacco-
Plants, de-
stroy To-
bacco, &c.

And be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, 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 any Person or Persons who shall, after
the End of this present Session of Assembly, cut or destroy, or cause