24 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1693 94.

     Lib. C. B. etary of their Majties Province of Maryland, which haveing been

            this day Read at the board as followeth, Vizt

        To the Rt Honble the Lords of the Committee of

                     Trade & Plantations.

              In obedience to yor Lordships Ordr of Reference of the 19th

            of September last I have considered of the severall Demands

            made by my Lord Baltemore in the Province of Maryland and

            Represented to their Mats by the Assembly of that Province,

            and I have been attended by the Lord Baltemore and his

            Councill; and as to his Lops first Demand of Twelve pence

            p Hogshead for all Tobacco exported out of that Province, I

            finde the said Duty is part of a certain Duty of two shillings

            a Hogshead for all Tobacco exported from that Province,

            Granted by an act of the Assembly there, of the 7th of March

            1671, One Moiety whereof is by the said Act appropriated to

            the publick service for the better Support of the Government;

            and the other Moiety (which is the Twelve pence a Hogshead

            now demanded by the Lord Baltemore) is thereby granted to

            the Lord Baltemore, to be received by him for his owne Use

            as Proprietor of the said Province and that the said Twelve

         p. zz  pence a Hogshead was by Ordr of Councill, the 26th of ffebry

            1690, directed to be answered & paid to the Lord Baltemore,

            as Proprietor of Maryland, and I doe not finde, that the As

            sembly doe much contest my Lords Right to this Duty of

            Twelve pence a Hogshead, in the Representation they have

            made to their Matys where they say they are with their Mats

            Royal Assent ready to confirme the same to his Lop provided

            his Lop Grant the same Conditions of Plantations, he did be

            fore the happy Revolutions; or the same, that their Majties doe

            to the Colony of Virginia, to the Inhabitants of that Province;

            But what those Conditions are, it doth not appeare to me,

            otherwise than by looking into the said Act of Assembly in

            1671, by which the said Duty was Granted to the Lord Balte

            more, Upon condition, that his Lop should accept a pound of

            Tobacco instead & lieu of every Two pence Rent at any time

            reserved vpon any Grant of Land made by his Lop which

            Condition his Lop affirms to me, he alwaies hath and still is

            ready to comply with.

              As to the second Demand of ifourteen pence p Ton for all

            Tobacco's exported out of that Province, I finde by an Act of

            the Assembly of that Province in 1661, it was Enacted, that

            all Vessells whatsoever not properly belonging to that Pro

            vince haveing a Deck flush fore & aft, comeing in, and Trade

            ing within that Province, should pay for Port Duty's & Anchor

            age a pound of powder, and Three pounds of shot, or soe