480 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699.

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Schoole for the raising of Money to carry on the said building
have sold the Severall Sums of Tobbacco subscribed unto by
Severall persons unto Severall of the Inhabitants within this
Province and whereas severall of the said Subscribers or
Donors as af^d do refuse to pay unto the persons purchacers
their Severall Subscriptions as aforesaid to the great Damage
of the purchasers thereof wherefore the Delegates of this
present Generall Assembly pray that it may be Enacted And
be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Ma^ty by and with
the Advice and Consent of this present Generall Assembly
and the Authority of the Same That it shall and may be Law-
full for any person or persons Purchaser or Purchasers of the
af^d Subscriptions or Donations their Executors & Administra-
tors upon the refusall or Denyall of Payment by any Subscri-
ber or Donor to bring his Action of Debt against the said
Subscriber or Donor his Executors or Administrators in the
Provinciall Court or in any County Court within this Province
which said Subscriptions shall bind such Subscriber his heires
Executors & Administrators for the payment of such Sume or

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Sums of money or Tobbacco according to the true Intent and
meaning of the Writeing to which such Subscription shall be
made or Copy of the same from under the hand of the Clerk
of his Matys Hon^ble Councill wherein no Essoyn protection or
Wager of Law to be Allowed and that Court where Judgment
is given to award Execution on the Same any Law Statute or
usage to the Contrary Notwithstanding.

An Act for Setling a Revenue on his Majesties present
Governor.

Whereas his most Sacred Ma^ty out of his Royall Bounty
and Princely favours has been pleased to Constitute and
Appoint his Excellency Colonel Nathaniel Blakiston his Cap^t
Generall and Chief Governo^r in and over this his Ma^tys
Province of Maryland to whom we his Ma^tys most Loyall
Subjects Yield all due obedience as by his Royall Comission
we are obliged and the better to Demonstrate our most
humble Gratitude and to shew the Good respects we have
for and towards the said Col Nathaniel Blakiston our p^rsent
Governor and the great hopes and Expectation we have of
his Excellencys Good Government over us We most humbly
pray that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings
most Excellent Ma^ty by and with the Advice and Consent of
this p^rsent Generall Assembly and the Authority of the same
That an Imposition of three pence p hogshead over and
above the one shilling p hh^d heretofore Granted for Supporte