370 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1692-1694.

P. R. O.

Maryland
B. I. Vol. 8.

and whereof the moyety of the Impost of two shillings p hogs-
head amounted to about seaven hundred and thirty five
pounds fifteen shillings. And your Lordships having further
directed the Receiver Generall by order of the 28^th of January
last to pay to the Lord Baltemore the sume of four hundred
sixty five pounds and nineteen shillings out of the money
which he then had or should receive for the moyety of the
Impost of two shillings p hogshead from the said twenty six
ships in consideration of the like sume alledged to be due to
the Lord Baltemore out of the duties received from severall
ships in that Province in the year 1690. and no account having
as yet been given by the Receiver Generall of his proceedings
herein. I am not able to inform your Lordships whether all
or any part of the said seaventeen hundred and thirty pounds
nineteen shillings due from the Masters of the said Twenty
six ships has been received or whether according to what has
been proposed to your Lordships the names of the Masters
refusing to pay the same and of the said ships have been cer-
tified by the Receiver Generall that upon the return of those
ships or Masters to Maryland the Government there may
oblige them to make good the said duties before they be per-
mitted to come away.
All which is most humbly submitted.
Whitehall the 23^rd of
September 1692.

M^r Knight's Report touching 12^d p hogshead
for 21 ships that left Maryland without
clearing.

May it please your Lordships
In obedience to your Lords^ps commands signified by M^r Guy
the 26^th past and in answer to a letter of M^r John Povey's
dated the 23^d of the same Month I most humbly inform your
Lordships that of the 1130 190 due from twenty seaven ships
that did not clear the Port duties with the Navall Officer of Mary-
land from the I^st August 1689 to the 12. of August 1690.
There have only been received six hundred and ninety pounds
ten shillings the Kings pte whereof amounting only to two
hundred ninety six pounds and nineteen shillings have been
paid over to the Lord Baltemore pursuant to your Lordsps
warrant to me of the 28^th January last in part of four hundred
sixty and five pounds nineteen shillings due to his Lordship as
by the said Warrant in your Lordships Books will more fully
appear. The Particulars of the Money received for the
severall ships is as follows
Viz^t