182 Assembly Proceedings, September 1642.

Liber M C

And all the Bills aforesaid were passed by all the house and
then enacted by the Lieu^t General in his Lordships name

Then was read the 24^th Bill for an expedition ag^st the Indians
and passed by all except that Captain Cornwaleys denied it for
15 of his Proxies of Saint Michaels hundred by reason of the
clause of exempting the Governors Servants
Then it was enacted by the L^t General in his Lordships
name

Then was read the 25^th Providing some things for the better
safety of the Colony and it was passed by all and then enacted
by the Lieutenant General in his Lordships name

Then at the motion of some of the freemen the Bill against
Forestallers and Ingrossers enacted by the last Assembly was
read and put to the question whether it should be Continued
or no and that it should was voted by the Governor the Secre-
tary the Surveyor M^r Greene M^r Binks Thomas Hebden M^r
Weston and Nicholas Cosin denied by the rest
Then the L^t General dissolv'd the Assembly

Liber P R
p. 18

At a Generall Assembly at S^t Maries on the
thirteenth day of September 1642 were enacted
these Acts following

1 An Act for the support of the government

ffor the better support of the Lord Proprietary, all tobaccos
shipped to be transported out of the Province (except to
virginea and except to any of the Kings dominions where cus-
tomes are vsed to be paid to his Ma^ties) shall pay a custome
of five in the hundred to his Lo^pp? This Act to endure for three
yeares from this present day.