His Excellency having laid before this Board an Account
of £21:6:6: paid by him for the Carriage of Arms and
Ammunition to Frederick Town,

Ordered that the honorable Col: Edward Lloyd as Treas-
urer of the Eastern Shore draw an Order on M^r Hunt
Merchant in London payable to his Excellency the Gov^r or
his Order for 21:6:6: sterling, being so much paid by him
for the Carriage of Arms, and Ammunition at several times
to Frederick Town, out of the Duty of 3^d p: Hhd for Arms
lodged in his Hands by the said Col. Lloyd.

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on Wednesday
the 5^th Day of May in the sixth year of his Lordships Do-
minion Annoque Dom: 1756.

		Present
	thehonble	Benjamin Tasker Esqr Colonel Hammond Samuel Chamberlaine Esqr	Philip Thomas Esqr Col: Tasker Bendk Calvert Esqr

		His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the following Instructions, from the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary which are ordered to be entred. As I have heard it has been said in England by a Master of a Vessel who imported some Convicts into this Province that he paid here a Sum of Money p poll on such Convicts, which affords Room to apprehend that the said Master im- ported and sold such Persons to the Inhabitants of this Prov-
	p. 96	ince as Servants for a Term of Years (such Things having been frequently done) and that by so doing he might have subjected himself to the Payment of certain Duties, imposed by an Act of Assembly passed in July 1754 intituled An Act for his Majesty's Service but that all Occasion of such Complaints might be removed and prevented, as much as possible, I have thot fit and do hereby require you to conduct