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/' planted, or fowed with tobacco, 

 ** fhall be fuffered or permitted to grow or 

 " be confumed in feed, plant or leaf, with- 

 " in their jurifdiftion, by the fpace of 

 *' fourteen days after the receipt of fuch 

 " warrant or warrants." " A penalty for 

 *' refufing to aflift the officers, and alfo for 

 " refitting them." And after making the 

 fame provifion as before for the phyfic gar-: 

 dens, and reciting many other articles for 

 regulating the plantation trade, the aft thus 

 concludes : " Provided always, and be it 

 *' enafted. That this aft (hall continue in 

 * force for nine years, and from thence to 

 " the next feffion of parliament, and no 

 " longer." 



By an aft made the fifth of George the 

 Firft, thefe afts are confirmed and rendered 

 perpetual. 



The repeated inforcement of them feems 

 to prove, that large quantities of tobacco 

 were raifed at that period in thefe domi- 

 nions, and that even the penalty of ten 



pounds 



