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VIII.  be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the said Public Treasurer shall negelct or refuse to account for and pay to the General Assembly, all such Sums of Money which he shall receive in Virtue of this Act, he shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds, Proclamation Money, for each Neglect or Refusal; to be recovered, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in the General Court of this Province, by him or them that shall or will sue for the same: Two Thirds whereof to his Majesty, to be applied for the Use of the Public, and the other Third Part to the Prosecutor.

IX.  be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid. That this Act thence to the End of the next Session of Assembly, and no longer.

 CHAP. [sic] II.

An Act to repeal Part of a Clause in an Act intituled, An Act, for forming a. Rent-Roll of all the Lands holden in this Province, for quieting the Inhabitants in their Possessions, and for directing the Payment of Quit-Rents.

  by a Clause in the Act of the General Assembly of this Province, passed the Fifteenth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Eight, intituled. An Act, for forming a Rent-Roll of all the Lands holden in this Province, for quieting the Inhabitants in their Possessions and for directing the Payment of Quit-Rents, it is Enacted, That the Quit-Rents then after to be paid, for any Lands already granted, or that should then after be granted, within this Province, or which had been actually possessed by any Person for the Space of Twenty Years then last past, should be paid in Proclamation Money, at the Court-house in the County where such Land lieth, or in Inspectors Notes for Tobacco, at One Penny, Proclamation Money, per Pound, or Indigo, at Four Shillings, Proclamation Money, per Pound: And whereas it is apprehended, that many Inconveniences will happen from the Payment of the said Quit-Rents in Indigo, as aforesaid;

II.  it therefore Enacted by his Excellency Gabriel Johnston, Esq; Governor, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council and the General Assembly of this Province, and by the Authority of the same. That all and so much the said recited Clause, as relates to the Payment of Quit-Rents in Indigo, shall be repealed, and it is hereby repealed accordingly; any thing in the said Clause, or any subsequent Act, or Clause of an Act, to the contrary thereof, in any-wise, notwithstanding. Rh