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after their arrival within the Province to the Governeur or
other Officer appointed by him or some Justice of Peace of
complying and observing all Acts and orders of the Province
during their Stay and Being in the Province
And be it further Enacted by the Authority afs^d that all
Masters or chief commanders of Ships or other lesser Vessels
trading or being in this Province that shall presume or at-

Original
Journal.

tempt to punish any Inhabitant of this Province ..... either
by striking or trying to the Capstone or by any other way
whatsoever inflicting or attempting to inflict any Punishment
within or upon their said Ships or Vessels on any Inhabitant
as af^d contrary to the Peace of the Lord Proprietary of this
Province shall forfeit and pay four thous^d Pounds of Tob^o the
one half to the Lord Proprietary and the other half to the Party
grieved

The Lower House have assented
W^m Bretton Clk

The Upper House have assented
Jn^o Gittings Clk

The said Gentlemen also produced a Journal of the Council
in Assembly held at S^t Marys the 10^th day of May 1692 in his
Excellency Governour Copleys time wherein is among other
things contained viz^t
As to the 14^d p Tunn this House have fully searched and
Examined into the true cause of the making of that Act &
though the Journals of that Assembly as well as the original
Law is either lost or designedly made away by the late Gov-
ernment yet many Persons having and some of this Assembly
do remember & say that the same was for building of Forts
and finding of Powder & Shot for the Country's use, and fur-
ther that that Duty ever was and still is by the Inhabitants
called Fort Dutys and not Port Dutys as it is now termed in
the said Act upon which Evidence and Perusal of the Law and
fully debating the same this House do unanimously debate
that the said I4^d p Ton doth of Right and according to the
Intentions of the makers of that Law belong to the Crown
and humbly desire their Majesty's Royal assent to an Act to
invest the same in their Majesty's and Successours for ever it
seeming very unequal to them that the Crown of England
should be at that Charge of building of Forts which is abso-
lutely Necessary for securing Ships in Time of War and their
Majesty's Dutys in both Times of Peace and War and the
Lord Baltimore receive the mony given by his Marty's Subjects
for that End and Purpose But more especially when we con-

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