244 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1741.

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of the Officers at Patuxent, that they imagined the first Entry
with the Officers at Patowmeck to be void and consequently
any pquisites from such Entry or the payment thereof the
Duties on the Negroes not to belong properly to him as Naval
Officer, but he humbly hopes that the Naval Officer & Col-
lector of Patux^t will appear to be mistaken for the following
Reasons.
1^st Your Remonstrant conceives and is advised that the
Authority of the Governors of Every Plantation by the Statute
15^th Car 2^d Cap 7-8 extends in what is there mentioned over
Every Part of the Plantation Colony or Province, and therefore
that he cannot by appointing a Naval Officer who is only his
Deputy abridge the Power of such Officer in such manner as
that a Captain shall not be said to have complyed with that
Statute by Delivery of a true Inventory &c to any pson
authorized to receive it which is a Naval Officer, altho' the
Ship should even lye in another District or Port, for that the
Statute does not confine the Exercise of the Authority to any
Places less than the Land Island Plantation af^d &c And that
the Words thereunto authorized only mean the Power of re-
ceiving such Inventory and not the particular District in the
Plantation where the Vessel is to lye, for if such a Construc-
tion were to be put on those Words every Vessel notwith-
standing her going into One Port breaking Bulk and Entry
would be obliged by the Words of the Statute to make another
Entry if she afterwards went into another District
2^dly As this Entry with the Officers of Patowmeck was
strictly legal This Remonstrant conceives it is highly reasona-
ble for him to insist on it since it is in the Case of a Ship con-
signed to him, since every Merchant may enter his Ship and
Cargo where he pleases

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3^dly That Lovey about 4 years ago entered in Patowmeck
without carrying his Ship in the River, and this Entry was
not disputed in Patuxent. Campbell made the like Entry twice
and One of them was allowed, the other contested under the
Pretext that he was within Patuxent River, and that the Re-
monstrants Deputy was not present (the latter of these Objec-
tions is now removed), notwithstanding which the Naval
Officer of Patuxent conscious to himself that I was injured,
allowed me half the Advantage of the Entry
Now as your Excellency is the p son appointed by the Laws
of Great Britain to see the Acts of Trade duely executed where
they extend to the Plantations, so this Remonstrant humbly
hopes and is assured, that that great Trust will now as here-
tofore be exerted in order to the doing Justice to his Majestys
Subjects and Traders here, who I humbly conceive should
have all the Indulgence that can be allowed them without a