284 Assembly Proceedings, March — April 1671.

Liber
W H &L

An Act for the Rayseing and Prouideing a Support
for his Lordship the Lord and Proprietary of this
Prouince dureing his natureall life and likewise a Supply
towards the defraying the Publick Charges of Gouernment

The Vpper and lower houses of this present Generall As-
sembly with all Imaginable gratitude and thankfullnesse Reflect-
ing vppon the great grace and fauour Expressed by your Lord-
ship to the people of this Province in the vnwearied Care
which your Lordship hath shewn and the vast Expences and
Charge which your Lordship hath been putt vnto from the
tyme of their first seating in this your Lordships Province vnto
this Instant merely to preserue them in the Enjoyment of their
lives and liberties and the Increase and Improvements of their
Estates and fortunes and takeing it into their Serious Con-
sideracons That as Gouernment is Necessary for the Conserva-
con of all Societies the Charges of every Gouernment without
which itt cannot possibly subsist ought in reason to be borne
by those whose Conservacons depend Vpon the Government
for and towards the defraying the many great and Necessary

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Expenses of Government And to the intent Your Lordship
your heires and Successors Absolute Lords and Proprietaryes of
this Prouince may for the future be Enabled in some measure
to defray the same and in particular to allow Competent Salla-
ries and Encouragement to the Leivtenant Generalls and
Cheife Gouernours And to the privy Councell of the Lord and
Proprietary of this Prouince for the time being soe as without
prejudice to their private affaires they may be Encouraged and
Reasonably Required to attend vnto the Administracon of Ius-
tice and other Publick Concernments doe beseech your Lord-
ship that it may be Enacted And Bee itt Enacted by his
Lordship the Lord and Proprietary of this Prouince by and
with the advice and Consent of the upper and lower houses
of this present Generall Assembly That from, and after the
first day of September now next comeing there shall be Raysed
leavyed Collected and paid vnto his Lordship the Lord and
Proprietary of this Prouince the Sume of two shillings starling
for every Hoggshead & quantity of an hoggshead of Tobacco
which shall be att any time then after Shipped in any Ship or
vessell to be Exported out of this Prouince or any the Terri-
toryes Islands Ports Rivers Creekes or any places thereunto
Belonging.
And Bee itt further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid and
by and with the aduice and Consent aforesaid That the said
duty and Imposicon shall be from time to time paid and Satis-
fyed by the master and masters of every such ship or vessell
Respectively in which any such Tobacco shall be Exported