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474 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Calvert
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Object of Dissent, alike, then slight regard to Mr Pratts
Opinion His Majesties Attorney-General, Inter als: concern-
ing the improprieties of their Bill, the Nomination of Officers,
the indignity to his Lordships private Officers, the Double
Tax in Breach of publick Faith, the unwarrantable impost on
the Mother Country on its own produce & Erect to themselves
the power and Authority of the British House of Commons,
these Lights are Glaring, convict the Bill and point it injurious
and unconstitutional.
Of War and Peace Power by Clauses in the Royal Charter
to Caecilius the first Lord Proprietor, tis Obvious, he did Com-
mission his Brother Leonard Calvert 1633 with all power of
Captain General, who exercised all Military power & granted
his Commissions for the Militia to Muster and Bear Arms
against the Disobedient and Mutinous, this Military power
seems to have been exercised till 1637/8 when by his Lordships
Instructions a General Assembly was Convened for Enaction
of Laws; during that Assembly a Captain Cleybourne with
others in Kent Island revolted, the General Crossed the Bay
with the Militia and Surppressed the Rebellion, returned to the
Assembly, who pass'd a Military Bill, and One for Erecting a
Fort and two for the Punishment of the Rebels. In 1638 at a
Sessions a Bill was Enacted, that "that the Military Board at the
Directions of the Lieutenant Governor had all power Granted
him for the defence of the Province," And all publick Charges
shall be defrayed by the Treasurer of the Province upon
Accompt of the Colony by Warrant from time to time from
the Lieuf General & Council " In 1642.3 Military Acts passed
for an Expedition against the Indians, Authorizing the Lieu-
tenant Governor or his Captains to take out of every County
the 3d Man to bear Arms at the Charge of the Hundred and
shall be transported to and from the Expedition with Vessells
at the charge of the Hundred, If Aggrieved by — — Assess-
ment, the Lieutenant Governor and Council to rectify the
Grievance, And it shall be lawful for the Lord Proprietary or
his Lieutenant Governor to press or take any Vessells, Men &
provisions, Arms, Ammunition and other things necessary for
Defence; and the Price and hire thereof to Charge upon the
Inhabitants of the Province according to such Proportions as
the said Lieutenant Governor and Council think fit Provided
such Charges in One Year of Tobacco ! ! The End of the
Year 1644 or beginning of 1645 One Ingle raised a Rebellion,
which was not suppressed till the End of 1646 by the Lieuten-
ant Governor, Peace soon after restored in Jany 1666/7 an Act
was passed "Granting his Lordship a Duty 10s a Hogshead
on all Tobacco, a Duty on Wine and Hot waters towards
defraying the Expences by the Insurection and to Enable
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