so by this present Assembly that no crafty or
advantagious means be suffered to be putt in practise for the inticing
awaye the Tenants or[248] Servants of any particular plantation from the
place where they are seatted. And that it shalbe[249] the duty of the
Governo^r[250] & Counsell of Estate most severely to punishe both the
seducers and the seduced, and to returne[251] these latter into their
former places.
[248] &, McDonald.
[249] shall be, McDonald.
[250] Gover^{nr}, McDonald; Governour, Bancroft.
[251] return, Bancroft.
Be it further enacted that the orders for the Magazin[252] lately made
be exactly kepte, and that the Magazin be preserved from wrong[253] and
sinister practises, and that according to the orders of courte in
Englande[254] all Tobacco and sassafras be brought[255] by the Planters
to the Cape marchant till suche time as all the goods[256] nowe or
heretofore sent for the Magazin be taken off their handes at the prices
agreed on. That by this meanes[257] the some[258] going for
Englande[259] with[260] one hande, the price thereof may be uphelde[261]
the better. And to the ende that all the whole Colony may take notice of
the last order of Courte made in Englande and all those whom it
concerneth may knowe[262] howe[263] to observe it, we[264] holde it fitt
to publishe it here for a lawe[265] among the rest of our lawes. The
w^{ch}[266] order is as followeth:
Upon the 26[267] of October, 1618, it was ordered that the Magazin[268]
should continue during[269] the terme formerly prefixed, and that
certaine[270] abuses now complained of should be reformed, and that for
preventing of all Impositions save the allowance of 25 in the hundred
proffitt, the Governo^r[271] shall have an invoice as well as the Cape
Marchant, that if any abuse in the sale of the[272] goods be offered,
wee,[273] upon Intelligence and due examination thereof, shall see it
correctede. And for the incouragement[274] of particular hundreds, as
Smythe's hundred, Martin's hundred, Lawnes' hundred, and the like, it is
agreed that what comodities are reaped upon anie of these General[275]
Colonies, it shalbe lawefull for them to returne the same to their owne
adventurers. Provided that the same[276] comodity be of their owne
growing, w^{th}out trading w^{th} any other, in one entyre lumpe and not
dispersed, and that at the determination of the jointe stocke, the goods
then remaining in the Magazin[277] shalbe[278] bought by the
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