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Inconveniencies this p'sent Generall Assembly most humbly
desire may be provided against
And foreasmuch as the quantity of Tobacco now usually
Exported or which may be Exported in an hhd of the Gage
by this Act Settled Exceeds the Quantity which was Comonly
reputed to be the Contents of an hhd att the time when the
aforesaid Imposition of two Shillings p hhd was Settled and
also that altho the number of hhds annually Exported are
Increased Since that time yet for that the value of his Lord-
ship's Rents are much more Increased
Be It therefore Ordained and Enacted by the Right Honble
Charles Lord Baron of Baltemore absolute Lord and Pro-
prietary of this Province with the Advice and Consent of the
Upper and Lower house of this Generall Assembly and by
the Authority of the same That from the Twenty ninth day of
September Last there shall be raised Levyed and Collected
for Every hhd of Tobacco that shall be Shipped in any Ship
or Vessell to be Exported out of this Province or any the
Territories Islands Ports Rivers Creeks or Places thereunto
belonging the Sume of two Shillings and nine pence Sterl and
for every hundred weight five pence halfe penny and soe pro
rato for a greater or lesser quantity in recompence and full
Satisfaction to his Lordship my Lord Propriary for accepting
his alienation ffines and quitt rents (reserved in money) in
Tobacco att two pence p pound and the better to Enable him
to Support the Government of this Province
And Be It further ordained and Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid the said duty and imposition shall be from time to
time paid and Satisfied by the Master or Masters of every
such Ship or vessell respectively in which any such Tobacco
shall be Exported upon his or their clearing or takeing his or
their dispatch or dispatches for every such respective Ship or
Vessell and before the Departure of such Ship or Vessell and
the Master or Masters of every such Ship or Vessell Comeing
into this Province shall att their first arrivall here before their
Lading on board any goods or Comodities of the growth
production or Manufacture of this Province give good and

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Sufficient Security to the Lord Proprietary his Governor for
the time being or to such other officer or officers as he the said
Lord Proprietary shall thereunto appoint for the payment of
the Duty or Imposition accordingly
And Be It further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid that it shall and may be Lawfull for my Lord Pro-
prietary to nominate and appoint such officer or officers for
the Collection thereof as to his Lordship shall Seeme meet
This Act to Continue till the day of which shall
be in the year Seventeene hundred and Twenty.

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