Whereas Several persons who have Endeavoured to Set up and Carry on the Tanners business in this province have been Discouraged and frustrated in their Attempts not being able to procure a Sufficient quantity of Hydes they being all bought up and Exported to foreign parts which has Occasioned great Scarcity of Leather and Oblidges us to purchase it (after it is Tann’d and workt up by our neighboring provinces) at Extravagant rates

For prevention thereof for the future and for the Encouragement of Tanner and Shoemakers among us

Be it Enacted by his Excellency the Palatine and the rest of the true and absolute Lords proprietors of the province of Carolina by and with the advice and consent of the rest of the Members of this General Assembly now met at Edenton for the North East part of the said province And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Ratification of this Act no raw or untand Hyde of any Neat Cattle, nor any raw untand Skinn of any Horse or Mare of any Caulf, Dog, Wolf, Bear or Panther Shall be Exported or Carried out of this province by Land or by Water by any person or persons whatsoever untill he or they Shall have paid the Impost or Duty of Twenty Shillings for Each and every Hyde of any Bull Steer or Cow raw or untanned and for each and every Skin of any Horse or mare raw or untanned and the Impost or Duty of Ten Shillings for Each and every Skinn of any Caulf, Dog, Wolf, Bear or Panther to the respective Officer of the Several Ports or Districts within this province which by this Law Shall be appointed to receive the Same and to Seale or mark the Hyde or Skin for which Such Impost or Duty Shall be paid and the monys received by this Impost or Duty Shall be paid to the Publick Treasurer for the use of the Publick by the respective Officers receiving the Same.

Be it further Enacted that in Each and every Port of this Government the publick receiver of the Powder Monys Shall and is hereby Impowred and required to receive the impost or Duty on all Hydes and Skines According to the Directions of this Act, upon Offer or Tender made to him by the person or persons about to Export the Same and after the receipt of the Duty as aforesaid, He Shall on the said Hyde or Skin by burning with a Brand Iron Seal or affix these Two Letters Videlicet N C and Shall before his giving a Certificate to any Master of any Vessell of his haveing paid the Impost or powder money Administer to the Said master an Oath in these Words Videlicet I: A:B: Master of the Vessell called [blank] do Sware that there is not on Board my Said Vessell any raw or untaned Hyde or Hydes of any Bull Steer or Cow nor any raw or untand Skin or Skines of any Horse Mare, Calf Dog, Wolf, Bear or Panther, for which the Lawfull Duties are not paid and that I will not Directly nor indirectly carry out any Such Hyde or Hydes Skin or Skines on Board my Said Vessell untill the Duties Shall be first paid as aforesaid.

Upon which Oath the Powder receiver Shall togeather with a Certificate of his haveing paid the powder money give him a Certificate to the Collector or Naval Officer of his having taken the Oath aforesaid.

And all Collectors or Naval Officers of any Port in this Government are hereby forbidden to Clear out any Vessells untill Such Certificate Shall be first produced unto them by the master of the Said Vessell under the penalty of one Hundred pounds to be forfeited by any Such Collector or Naval Officer who Shall Clear out any Vessell without Such Certificate first had, One half thereof to the Publick Treasurer for the use of the Publick the Other half to the Informer to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or information in any Court of record in this Government Provided nevertheless that the Same be Sued for within the Space of Twelve months after Exportation of the said Hyde, Hides, Skin or Skins.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any person or persons Shall carry or cause to be carried out of this province, any raw or untanned Hyde of any Bull, Steer or Cow or the Skin of any Horse, Mare, Dog, Caulf, Wolf, Bear or Panther raw or untanned which is not Sealed as aforesaid Such person or persons Shall forfeit the Sume of Five pounds for Each and every Hyde or Skin togeather with the Hyde or Skin (if to be had) if not the value thereof one half whereof to the Publick Treasurer for the use of the Publick the other half to him or them that Shall Sue for the Same, to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill, Plaint or information, in any Court of record in this Government provided nevertheless the Same be Sued for within the Space of twelve months after Exportation of said Hyde or Skin.

And be it Further Enacted that every Powder Officer of every Port in this Government Shall after the Ratification of this Act as Soon as may be and before he Shall Execute the Office or trust lodged in him by this Act take an Oath before Some magestrate in this Government that he will not Seal or cause to be Sealed or marked any Hyde or Hydes Skin or Skins untill the Impost or Duty Shall be paid unto him as is by this Act Directed.

And be it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Jeremiah Veale be powder receiver for Port Roanoak That Mr. Edward Salter be Powder receiver for Port Bath that Mr. Richard Russell be Powder receiver for Port Beaufort and Mr. Richard Church be powder receiver for Port Coratocke who are hereby required with all Convenient Speed before they Enter on the Execution of their Said Office to qualify themselves for the Same by takeing the Oaths by Law appointed and by giving Bond for the Sum of Five hundred pounds Each to the Publick Treasurer for the use of the Publick with Condition that he Shall faithfully performe his said Office and that he Shall Annually on the first Munday in June Accompt on Oath with the Treasurer and pay in unto him the Ballance of the Said Accompts for the use of the publick which Accounts The publick Treasurer is hereby required to lay before the Assembly at the next ensuing Sessions.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That upon the Death or Removal or other legall Incapacity of any Powder receiver appointed by Vertue of this Act the Governour or Commander in Chief for the time being Shall with the advise and consent of the Council appoint another in the Stead of Such Powder receiver, who giving Security to the Publick Treasurer as is before by this Act Directed, Shall be Impowred to receive the Powder money, and all Other Impost to the Said Office belonging till the next Bienniell meeting or untill the next Sessions of Assembly and no Longer. At which Bienniell Meeting or next Session of Assembly which Shall first happen The Assembly Shall Nominate persons to Supply the places of Such as Shall be Dead removed or otherwise rendered uncapable of Executing the said Office And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the Ratification of this Act the Collector in each and every Port in this Government Shall Annually deliver of Cause to be delivered to the Publick Treasurer on the first Munday in June the Certificates or receipts of the Impost receiver which he Shall have received from each and every Master of Vessells upon his Clearing out in Order for the Publick Treasurer to produce with his Accounts to the next Assembly. And the Said Collector for Such his Trouble may receive from the publick Treasurer the Sume of One pound per Cent on all the Impost Duties Paid in the Port whereof he is Collector.

NYHS, pp. 296-300.
Repealed in its entirety by an act of 1729 (below).