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 agreement, as mentioned in the former Article, shall forfeit, on full proof being first made before one of the said Justices, on oath of one or more creditable witnesses, ten tons of merchantable unchipt logwood, to be paid and delivered at Key Casina, aforesaid, to such person or persons as the said Justice shall appoint to receive the same, and to be distributed agreeably to the tenor of these Articles.

Sixth, All taxes which shall be thought necessary to be laid on the inhabitants of the Bay, for the use and benefit of the said inhabitants and settlers, shall be determined and laid on the said inhabitants, by two of the Justices and five of the principal inhabitants so residing in the Bay of Honduras, to be made choice of by the majority of the voices of the inhabitants then residing in the said Bay. And when such taxes are ordered to be laid and collected by the authority aforesaid, it is further agreed, that any person whatever refusing, when ordered to be collected, to pay the same, shall forfeit ten tons of merchantable unchipt logwood, to be paid and delivered at Key Casina, and to be disposed of in like