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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1706. 203
without paying the Duty of one peny p pound he having lost Lib. C. B. so much in a Sloope going out of this Province which being read & Debated it is Answered that this Board do not thinke it within the Verge of their power to Grant the Petitioners request there being an Act of Parliament of the Kingdom of England whereby the Duty of one peny p pound on Tobacco is given to the Use of the Colledge in Virginia which Act is so Positive that it is the Opinion of this Boarde the Petitioner remains without Remedy here. Ordered that the Justices of the lower Countys Inquire what Pilots are resident within their Precincts and call thein before them to give good Security upon the first alarme to make the best of their Way to land by Annapolis. p. 49
Thursday May 23d 1706. Councill Sate Resolved the Shipps be all cleared to go to Puttuxent when ready to Say]e but that their Severall Clearances be left with the Custome house Officers not to be deliverd the Com- anders untill they Shall receive his Excellencys Direction so to doe. His Excellency acquaints the board that Complaint has been made to him on behalf of Divers Indians liveing in Charles County that a Tomb wherein an Indian Queen is buried has been broke open & robbd & divers goods of a Considerable value Stolen thence by Englishmen and women living Conti guous to the Indian land. He desires to have the opinion of the board therein what they thinke most proper to be done for the relief of the Complainants. Advised & Ordered that Strickt inquiry be made after the Offenders & that upon their being taken they be bound over to the next Provinciall Court there to be prosecuted according to the utmost Severity of the Law. His Excellency asking the Advice of the board what Sort of acquittance the Coll of the Severall Countys ought to give p. 50 for the Arms put into their hands out of the publiq Magazine by his Excellency for the Countrys Service Advised & ordered that from hence forward the Person Appointed to keep the Magazine at Annapolis by his Ex cellency do take of each Coll upon Delivering out any Arms a receipt thereof in Manner following viz.
May 20th 1706. Then Received by me A: B: from his Excellency or the keeper of her MajtYs Magazine at Annapolis these Severall
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