246 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1708.

             Lib. c. B. Her Matys Order in Councill at the Court of St James' the

                   first of Aprill 1708 declaring two Laws to be repealed was

                   read and is as followeth Vizt

                     At the Court at St James the first

                          Day of Aprill 1708 prsent

                        The Queens most Excellt Matye

                       Ld Chancellor     Mr Secry Boyle

                       Ld Prsidt         Mr Vice Chamberlain

                       Duke of Somersett Lord Chief Justice Trevor

                       Earle of Derby    Sr Thomas Mansell

                       Earle of Sunderland Sr Charles Hedges

                       Earle of Cholmondeley    Mr Vernon

                       Earle of Seafield Mr How

                       Mr Bertie         Lieut Genll Earle.

                     Whereas upon the humble Reprsentacon of the Lords

                   Comrs for Trade and plantations Dated the 23d of the Last

                   month Her Majesty was this Day pleased to approve of an

                   Act lately pass'd in Virginia Entituled an Act for Improving

                   the Staple and Regulating the Size of Tobo Hogsheads and

             p. 131 allso to Disallow and Repeall two Acts passd in Generall

             Assembly of her Majtys Province of Maryland, Entitled

                     An Act for ascertaining the Gauge of Tobacco Hogsheads

                   pass'd the 3d of October 1704 and

                     An Act to prevent Cropping Cutting and Defacing To

                   bacco taken on Board Ships & Vessells upon Freight pass'd

                   the 15 of Apprill 1707

                     The first of which two last mentioned Acts doth Enact as is

                   sett forth in the said Representation, That no Tobacco Hogs-

                   heads shall Exceed fforty Eight Inches in Length and thirty

                   two Inches in the Head, and that in Case any persons shall

                   make Hogsheads of a Larger Dimension he shall forfeit one

                   hundred pounds of Tobacco for Each Hogshead so made,

                   which the merchants Complain of as a Great hardship upon

                   them for thô By this Maryland Act, their Hogsheads Exceede

                   those of Virginia but two Inches in the head, yet in the

                   Loading of a Ship the Difference is considerable, for a Ship

                   Built to Carry seaven hundred Virginia Hogsheads can not

                   loade above six hundred of those of Maryland; besides that

                   very often such ships Do take in part of their Lading in

                   Virginia, and part in Maryland, so that By Reason of the

                   Different Sizes of the Cask the Masrs cannot take in their full

                   lading nor stow the Cask so conveniently, and without Loss