116    Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1701.

              Lib. X.    pretend to Judge that they never understood those Laws

                   were sent to England otherwise than to the Lord Proprietary

                   when there residing

                     That in the said Proprietary Government there were not

                   any appeals allowed from this Province to England but that

                   the Judgment & Sentence of the Govr & Council which was

              P 276 then called & Stiled the upper House of Assembly was final

                   in all Causes & the Governor and Council who were the only

                   Judges of the said Appeals were the same persons who gave

                   Judgment in the provincial Court the Lord Proprietary and

                   his Council being the Judges of that Court.

                     Two of his Majestys Collectors of Putuxent to wit Mr

                   Christopher Rousby & after him Mr John Pain were murdered

                   in the execution of their Offices tho they cannot say the same

                   was absolutely chargeable upon the Government.

                     They do not know of any great application made by that

                   Government for Arms and ammunition tho they are very

                   credibly informed & there are several persons yet Living that

                   will attest the 14d Ton formerly & yet taken by and paid to

                   the Lord Proprietary as Port dutys was intended & given for

                   the maintenance of Forts & defence of the Province & was

                   originally stiled & called Fort Duties & not Port Duties which

                   duty they humbly conceive does of right belong to his Majesty

                   and doubt not in a small time to demonstrate the same

                     As to Pensylvania they are sensible that the Raising &

                   lowring coins has been an advantage that Government has

                   had above his Majestys immediate Governments but what

                   advantages they have made thereby they cannot judge but

                   believe it has at some times been the means to draw out the

                   money from his Majestys Governments to the Proprietary

                   Govts & for some time & still does continue so to do from

                   this Province to Pensylvania

              p. 277 ‘That Government before Governor Pens last arrival there

                   did give too much Countenance to fugitive Seamen Debtors

                   & run away servants going from hence and did rather impede

                   then further their return but Mr Penn upon his arrival gave

                   some redress to those evils & continued so to do during his

                   stay there Especially as to Runaway Servants

                     That they have been credibly informed that for Years last

                   past many Pirates have resorted to that Government & in

                   great Probability have contributed much to the enriching that

                   Place & do understand that Collo Robert Quary who has

                   resided there some years is lately gone for england to lay the

                   state of that Province before their Lordships

                     As to the east & west Ierseys having no comerce with them

                   being remote can only say that they have been Generally