Restrictions on the governor, &c. as to taxes,

Punishment for feloniously killing a tame hog.

For killing a wild hog, without license from

ACT III.

IT is further enacted & confirmed, that the Governor & Council shall not lay any taxes or impositions vpon this collonie their lands or comodities otherwise then by the authority of the Grand Assembly to be leavied & imployed as by the Assembly shall be appointed.

ACT IV.

BE it also enacted & confirmed, that what person or persons soever within the collony shall feloniously kill a tame hogg being none of his owne & being thereof lawfully convicted shall suffer as a felon, And whosoever shall kill any wild hoggs without lycense from the Governor, unles it be within the bounds of his own land shall for his offence be censured by the Governor & Council, or in case it be within the bounds of his own land such person killing any wild hoggs shall call two of his neighbors being housholders who may wittnes that the hogg was vnmarked, And before such view of the governor. neighbors what persons soever shall kill a wild vnmarked hogg, and cutt off his ears, shall be censured as aforesaid (as in case of a transgressor for killing of wild hoggs without the bounds of his own lands,) The ears to be brought in to the next commissioner as formerly. It is likewise thought fitt to be explained that this clause of veiwing the ears shall extend to such as shall have license from the Governor for killing of wild hoggs, Provided that this clause of killing of wild hoggs nor the penalty thereof shall not extend to Smith's Iland.

Sufficient

fences to be made.

ACT V.

BE it also enacted & confirmed, That ev'rie planter shall make a sufficient fence about his cleared ground, And if he be deficient therein what trespass or damage he shall susteyne by hoggs, goats or cattle whatsoever shall be to his own losse and detriment, And also if it happen that any person shall hunt any of the said boggs, goats or cattle as aforesaid that shall so offend them & do them harm he shall make satisfaction for any of them that shall be so hurt, to the ownnot sufficiently ers of the said hoggs, goats or cattle, to be recovered

Penalty for hunting or killing hogs, &c. breaking into grounds

fenced.

within any court of justice within the collony. And it is thought fitt & so ordered that where any hoggs, goats or cattle, shall endamage any planter for want of such ffence as aforesaid and the party damnified do wilfully kill or otherwise hurt so as the said hoggs or cattle do die of such hurt, whether by doggs sett vpon them or otherwise, in such case the owner of the ground shall not onely be liable to satisfie the full value of such hogg, goat or cattle, But by vertue of this act shall be adjudged to satisfie double the value of such hoggs, goats, or cattle so killed to the owners of them.

ACT VI.

defined.

BE it also enacted and confirmed for preventing and Ingrossing & redressing the great abuses by the excessive and exorforestalling bitant ingrossing of comodities brought into the collony and forestallers of the market, (as hereafter is expressed, vizt.) what person or persons soever shall buy any shooes, Irish stockins, course woollen or linnen stockins, servants shirts, or any linnen whatsoever, servants woollen clothes, or any woollen cloth whatsoever strong liquors, soape, candle, sugar, fruite, spices, nailes, or any manner of ironware, armes, amunition, or any necessarie comoditie whatsoever and do sell the same at a dearer rate then they were bought by them, such person shall to all intents and purposes be counted an ingrosser and foresteller, and such person or Punishment persons so offending against the premises, shall for of every such sale of the aforesaid goods forfeit double the valew of what the goods were sold by him or them, halfe of which forfeiture shall be and come to the King's majestie, the other halfe to the informer: Nevertheless it shall be lawfull any thing in this act to the contrary Exception. notwithstanding, for any person haveing bought a servant and undergone the charge and hazard of seasoning of any such servant, to make his best advantage by putting off or bartering such servant to any other inhabitant within the collony.

ACT VII.

BE it also enacted and confirmed that according to his majesties instructions no master of any shipp or vessel arriving to the collony shall breake bulke or make

Vessels re

stricted to James City.

Penalty for failure.

Copy of this

act to be fixed to the mainmast.

Exception.

sale of any goods or servants, nor any merchant or other person whatsoever arriving in such shipp or vessel before such shipp or vessell shall arrive at the porte of James Citty, (at which port they shall ride at anchor four and twenty hours at least.) And it is further ordered, that if any master, merchant or any other person whatsoever shall offend against the premises, such master shall forfeit for such offence of breaking bulk two pounds of powder for each tunn of burden, one moyity whereof shall be and come to the publique stock and the other moyity to the informer, And such master, merchant or any other person whatsoever for such offence of sale of goods or servants before arrival to the aforesaid port, shall forfeit the full valew of the goods and servants so sould, the one halfe whereof shall be and come to the King's ma'tie and the other half to the informer, And for removing and takeing away of all pretense of ignorance to this said act by any master, merchant or any other person whatsoever, It is further ordered that the capt. leu'tt, or other officer of the ffort shall affix a coppy of this act to the mainmast of any shipp or vessell that shall arrive within James River, Provided that this act nor the penalty thereof shall not extend to any shipp or vessell that shall be consigued to Charles River or Northampton county.

Two acres of corn to be planted for each worker.

Constables to present for failure.

Penalty

ACT VIII.

BE it also enacted and confirmed that there be two acres of corne planted for every worker in the ground, And for the better execution of this said act, it is further ordered that all constables within their severall lymitts and precincts shall take a veiw of every man's corne vpon the ground, and where the proportion of two acres is wauting, the constables of the said lymitts shall present their defaults to the comissioners of the monethly courts which by vertue of this act are required to make inquiry thereof, and are further authorized to impose a fine of five hundred pounds of tobacco per acre defective vpon such person or persons whom they find delinquent in the premises one balfe whereof shall be and come to the constable or any other informer and the other halfe to publique vses for the good of the county where the offence is committed.

ACT IX.

BE it also enacted and confirmed, that all comanders or masters of shipps comeing out of the ocean into the harbor of Poynt Comfort or elcewhere within the lymitts of the collonie shall pay vnto the capt. of the ffort, his deputy or deputyes or such whom the governor shall appoint a quarter of a pound of powder and shott proportionable for every tunn of burden that the shipp, shall be of, as also mat h and paper royal according to their burden or tunns, The burden to be accounted as they are entered at the custome house or as they doe pay to the lights or other duties in the kingdom of England, And it is further enacted that all commanders and masters of shipps shall at their arrivall give in a true list vpon oath to the capt. of the ffort or his deputy of the nomber of the passengers.

Fort duties

payable at Point Comder, shot, &r.

fort of pow

ACT X.

Boundaries of Isle of Wight, Upper & Lowe Norfolk

BE it also enacted and confirmed, for a finall determination of the Isle of Weight county, Vpper and Lower Norff: countyes that the Isle of Weight county shall beginn at Lawne's creek and from thence to extend downe along the maine river vnto the plantation counties. of Rich: Hayes formerly belonging vnto John Howard including the said plantation and family from thence to extend from the main river into the woods southerly vnto the plantation of William Nowell and Mr. Robert Pitt including likewise the said plantation and familys and from thence southerly as aforesaid.

And the vpper county of New Norff: to begin at the aforesaid plantation of Rich: Hayes and from thence into the woods southerly as aforesaid, and by the mayne river, from thence to extend downe by the mayne river into the creeke near vnto the plantation of francis Bullock being the first creeke to the westward of Crayne Poynt, including the plantation of the said ffrancis Bullock, and no waies trenching vpon the western branch of Elizabeth River, nor the creeks thereof which do belong to the county of the Lower Norff:

These bounds being sett and lymitted by the consent and agreement of the burgesses for the said countyes.

Penalty for hunting or

another man's

land.

ACT XI.

WHEREAS the rights and interests of the inhabitants are very much infringed by hunting and shootshooting upon ing of divers men vpon their neighbours lands and dividents contrary to the priviledges granted to them by their patents, whereby many injuries do dayly happen to the great damage of the owners of the land whereon such hunting or shooting is vsed, It is therefore enacted and confirmed that if any planter or person shall hunt or shoot vpon or within the precincts or lymitts of his neighbour or other divident without leave first obtained for his soe doing, and having been warned by the owner of the land to forbear hunting and shooting as aforesaid, he or they soe offending shall forfeit for everie such offence foure hundred pounds of tobacco, the one halfe to the owner of the land, the other halfe to publick vses-Notwithstanding it shall and may be lawfull for any person or planter to hunt and shoot upon any divident of land not being planted or seated without any restraint or penalty, Provided that the lymitts of everie divident be bounded with certain and noted marks. Provided also that it shall be lawful for any person having shott a deare or other game without the lymitts of any man's land to pursue the said deare or game into the divident of another man, and freely to carry away the same without any trespass against the owner or proprietor of the said land and without incurring the penalty of this said act.

Proviso.

Further proviso.

Mortgages to be registered in

quarter or monthly courts; or

deemed frau

dulent as to creditors.

ACT XII.

WHEREAS divers persons as dayly experience informeth doe closely and privately convey over their estates by way of mortgage not delivering possession whereby the creditors are defrauded and defeated of their just debts not having knowledge of the same, Be it therefore enacted and confirmed, for redresse of the like inconveniencies hereafter that what person or persons soever either have since January 1639 or hereafter shall make or pass over any conveyance as aforesaid of any part or parcell of his estate in any other way or manner then what shall be done and acknowledged at a quarter court or monetbly court and there registred