AT A General Assembly, BEGUN AND HELD AT Williamsburg, the first day of February, in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George II. by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the eighteenth day of May, 1732: being the third session of this present Assembly. Wm. Gooch, esq. govern or. CHAP. I. An Act to enable the Masters of Ships, to employ their own Sloops, Boats, and Sailors, in carrying Tobacco from the Public Warehouses, on board their Ships. I. W [From edit. 1733.] WHEREAS, by one clause of the act made at Preamble. the last session of this assembly, For amending the Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, it was enacted, That no "master of a ship, or other vessel, should carry to any 66 warehouse, or fetch from thence, or any place what"soever, in any boat or vessel to him belonging, or in ❝any vessel mann'd by the sailors of the ship or vessel "whereof he should be master, any tobacco, to be ship"ped upon freight, upon pain of forfeiting ten pounds of "lawful money, for every hogshead, so carried, fetched, ❝ or put on board: to be recovered by action of debt, "in any court of record; one moiety whereof should "be to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and suc❝cessors, to be applied towards defraying the expence "of the execution of this act; and the other moiety to "the person who should sue for the same:" II. And whereas, it is now found more expedient, for the dispatch of ships, to allow the masters thereof a CHAP. XXIX. An Act to confirm the sale of certain entailed Lands, in the County of King William, made by John Douglass, to John Frazer, in fee simple; and for settling other Lands in the County of Brunswick, and two Negro Slaves, of greater value, to the same uses. Signed by WILLIAM GOOCH, Esq. Governor. JOHN HOLLOWAY, Speaker. AT A General Assembly, BEGUN AND HELD AT Williamsburg, the first day of February, in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George II. by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the eighteenth day of May, 1732: being the third session of this present Assembly. Wm. Gooch, esq. govern or. CHAP. I. [From edit. 1733.] An Act to enable the Masters of Ships, to employ their own Sloops, Boats, and Sailors, in carrying Tobacco · from the Public Warehouses, on board their Ships. I.HEREAS, by one clause of the act made at Preamble. the last session of this assembly, For amending the Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, it was enacted, That no "master of a ship, or other vessel, should carry to any warehouse, or fetch from thence, or any place what"soever, in any boat or vessel to him belonging, or in "any vessel mann'd by the sailors of the ship or vessel "whereof he should be master, any tobacco, to be ship"ped upon freight, upon pain of forfeiting ten pounds of "lawful money, for every hogshead, so carried, fetched, ❝or put on board: to be recovered by action of debt, "in any court of record; one moiety whereof should "be to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and suc❝cessors, to be applied towards defraying the expence "of the execution of this act; and the other moiety to "the person who should sue for the same:" II. And whereas, it is now found more expedient, for the dispatch of ships, to allow the masters thereof a CHAP. XXIX. An Act to confirm the sale of certain entailed Lands, in the County of King William, made by John Douglass, to John Frazer, in fee simple; and for settling other Lands in the County of Brunswick, and two Negro Slaves, of greater value, to the same uses. Signed by WILLIAM GOOCH, Esq. Governor. JOHN HOLLOWAY, Speaker. AT A General Assembly, BEGUN AND HELD AT Williamsburg, the first day of February, in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord George II. by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the eighteenth day of May, 1732: being the third session of this present Assembly. Wm. Gooch, esq. govern or. CHAP. I. An Act to enable the Masters of Ships, to employ their own Sloops, Boats, and Sailors, in carrying Tobacco from the Public Warehouses, on board their Ships. I. W [From edit. 1733.] WHEREAS, by one clause of the act made at Preamble. the last session of this assembly, For amending the Staple of Tobacco, and for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, it was enacted, That no "master of a ship, or other vessel, should carry to any 66 warehouse, or fetch from thence, or any place what"soever, in any boat or vessel to him belonging, or in "any vessel mann'd by the sailors of the ship or vessel "whereof he should be master, any tobacco, to be ship"ped upon freight, upon pain of forfeiting ten pounds of "lawful money, for every hogshead, so carried, fetched, ❝or put on board: to be recovered by action of debt, "in any court of record; one moiety whereof should "be to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and suc❝cessors, to be applied towards defraying the expence "of the execution of this act; and the other moiety to "the person who should sue for the same:" II. And whereas, it is now found more expedient, for the dispatch of ships, to allow the masters thereof a |