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ff court of record, wherein no effoign, pro- 

 ' f teftiqn or wager in law fhall be allowed. 



^ Provided always and it is hereby enac- 

 * ted, That this aft, nor any thing therein 

 " contained, fhall extend to the hindering 

 *f of the planting of tobacco in any phyfic 

 garden of either univerfity, or in any 

 other private garden for phyfic or chy- 

 rurgery, only fo as the quantity fo plant- 

 *' ed exceed not half of one pole in any one 

 ** place or garden." 



In this aft all fheriffs, juflices of the 

 peace, or other officers, upon information 

 or complaint made unto them, are empow- 

 ered to caufe to be burnt, plucked up, con- 

 fumed or utterly deftroyed all fuch tobacco, 

 fet, fown, planted or growing within their 

 jurifdiftion. But it not proving forcible 

 enough to prevent the cultivation of tobacco ; 

 in the fifteenth year of the reign of the faid 

 K.ing, a claufe was inferted in an aft, en- 

 titled, '< An aft for the encouragement of 

 trade," to the following purport, claufe 18. 



' And 



