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Tobacco to be paid out of the Estate of the partie punished
or corrected if Sufficient distress may be had or otherwise by
the quester of the province upon the account of the province
To Each of the Serjeants or Marshalls of S^t Maries or
S^t Georges band two pound of Tobacco Yearly per head to be
paid by every house keeper of either of those bands for him or
her self and for every one within his or her familie able to bear
armes and to the Serjeant or Marshall of the Isle of Kent four
pound per head
To the Surveyor twenty pound of Tobacco for every hun-
dred acres within the plott Surveyed if it be above one hundred

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acres or otherwise half a pound of Tobacco for every acre Sur-
veyed if it be under one hundred acres Provided that the
partie whose land is Surveyed find boate and hands and all
necessaries to such Surveyor instruments excepted
To the Coroner for veiwing a dead Body and burying it and
holding his Enquest fourty pound of Tobacco to be paid of the
goods of the partie whose body is viewed if there be Sufficient
disstresse or otherwise by the Questor of the Province upon the
common accompt This Act to Continue till the end of the
next Generall Assembly

An Act For the common defraying of
certain Publick charges

Be it Enacted By the Lord Proprietarie of this Province of
and with the advice and approbation of the same that from and
after the end of this Generall Assembly at any time or times as
the Leiuten^t Generall and Councill of State for the time being
Shall judge it necessary to make any publick expedition against
any Indians or other profesed and declared enemies or Rebells
within the province they shall chuse or appoint such person or
persons whom they Shall think fit to be the Questor or Treasurer
of that expedition which Questor shall provide all necessary pro-
visions and defray all necessary expences and charges of such
expedition by or upon any Warrants to him directed for that
purpose from the said Leiutenant and Councell or any one of the
Councell (if there be no more present at S^t Maries) and any
person within the province pressed to goe upon the said
expedition shall be allowed after the rate of one hundred
pound of Tobacco per month for so long as he shall serve
in or upon the said Expedition and the Serjeant provost
Marshall or other officer shall be allowed after the rate of two
hundred pound of Tobacco per month and every Vessell presed

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upon the service shall be allowed such fraite hire as shall be
reasonably thought fitt by the Leiutenant Generall and Councill

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