104 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.
p. 86

the 13^th December 1671

Robert Ellis Sworn by his Excellency Deputy Clerk of the
Council

Maryland ss^t
By his Excellency the Captain
General

These are to Authorize and Impower you to make Entry
and give a License to trade (first having taken Bond According
to the Laws of this Province to any open Boat Open Sloop or
undecked Vessel that shall come Either to trade or fetch
Tobacco in the County of Somerset within this Prov^c and the
same undecked Vessels to Clear and discharge upon payment
of the Imposition money Port duties and Secretaries fees and
the same discharge to sign in my name and also further to
empower you in the said County of Somerset to ask demand
require and receive the Imposition of two Shillings p hhd for
every hhd of Tobacco that shall be Carried out or Exported
out of this Province as also the Tunnage and Secretaries fees
for every such Vessel as you shall so enter and Clear and
further to require you that you look diligently that no Tobacco

p. 87

be Carried out of the said County but that the the duties
thereof are paid according to Act of Assembly I hereby allow-
ing you as a Reward for your Care pains and trouble ten p^r
Cent out of the said Imposition Money Tonnage and Secreta-
ries fees you to be Accountable and make Payment of the
Remainder to me upon demand Provided always that you
presume not to enter or Clear any decked Vessel whatsoever
to have and to hold the said Office of Collector of the Impo-
sition Money Port duties and Secretaries fees during Pleasure
Given under my hand and seal the 25^th day of December in
the 40^th Year of the Dominion of Cecilius &c^a Annoq Domini
1671
To M^r Thomas Walker Gent
high Sheriff of the County of Charles Calvert
Somerset these

On the Back side of the foregoing Commission
was thus written

Instructions to be Observed and followed by Thomas
Walker Collector of Somerset County

You shall Cause every such Undecked Vessel that shall
Come to enter with you to enter into two Bonds with security
that is to say the Bond of Navigation and the Bond of two
shillings p hhd and also into one Bond for the Master of the