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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1694 97. 125
if vpon Examination of his Books or otherwise there Appeare Lib, H. D. to be Cause, that you suspend him and imploy some able trusty person in his stead, tis farther Ordered from Vs and as anything may occurr to you concerning the behaviour of the other Officers in Maryland necessary for our information Wee shall desire to heare from you Wee are Sr Yor humble Servants Custom house 23th of Jo: Werden ffebry 1692 Robert Southwell Directed Pat: Ward ffor the Honorl Robert Clayton ffrancis Nicholson Esqr Governor of their Mats Colony of Maryland. Commis-5r ers of the Custom Being informed from the Commissionrs of their house Letter Mats Duties of ffour and halfe per Cent in the Island t hi E ncie touching of Barbados, that the Tobacco imported thither from Tubs Ex- Virginia, Maryland & other Northern parts in
purtrdhCnce to the plan- America doth occasion great trouble & Charge to tacdns their vnder Officers in the Weighing thereof Because
the Certificates mentioning the paymt of the penny p pound Express only the Numbers of hogsheads, Bundles or Trusses without either the Weight of each particular hogshead or the Weight of the whole parcell contained in such Certificate, thereby rendring the said Officers incapable to Discover any fraud to their Mats prejudice in the short payment of the said penny p pound which Duty by some former instances hath been frequently compounded at little more than halfe Vallue, for avoiding of which evill practices for the future and making this Examination more easie and certain to the Officers in Barbados & other Plantations, Wee desire you will please to give particular Instructions to all our Officers within your p. 48 Governmt that they do not presume to Certifye for any greater quantity of Tobo than for which the Duty shall be first Answered & paid to them. And that in their Certificates they do mention both the Numbers of hogsheads Bundles & Trusses and the exact Weight thereof, Wee are Sr Custom house Lond° Yor very humble Servants 16th March 1693. Jo: Werden Directed thus Robt Southwell ffor the Honorl P: Ward ffrancis Nicholson Esqr Governor Robt Clayton of their Mats Colony of Maryland
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