The Upper House. 27

to prevent croping Cutting and Defaceing Tob^o taken on
board Ships or Vessels upon freight and for laying Impo^s on
Tob^o by the hhd. for the Support of Governm^t &c. Passed by
the Lower House
M^r Robert Tyler and two others from the Lower house with
a bill for quieting differences that may arise between his
Lordships Subjects of this Province and the several nations of
Indians of what places soever. Passed by the Lower House
Which being Read in this house is Endorsed as follows

June 5^th 1717. By the Uper house of Assembly

U. H. J.

Read the first time and will pass with the foll^o Amendm^ts
viz. that Instead of (his Lordships Subjects) in the Title, the
words (the Inhabitants.)
Signed p Ord^r Jn^o Beard Cl up ho.

Sent p M^r Henry Lowe, who returns & Says he Delivered it.
The house Adjourns till afternoon

Post Meridiem
The house meet According to Adjournment
Present as in the forenoon

M^r Jowles & M^r John Fendal from the lower house with
an Ingrost bill for quieting Differences that may arise between
the English and Indians &c. Assented to by that house and
being Read is Assented to by this house.
His Excellency by my Lord Baltemore's Comand lays be-
fore this house for their Consideration a Paragraph proposed
to be part of the new revenue bill as the terms on which his
Lordship is willing to Continue the Act Entituled an Act
Ascertaining the Gauge & Tare of Tob^o hogsheads And to
Prevent Croping Cutting and defaceing Tob^o taken on board
Ships or Vessels &c as follows

And forasmuch as by the Enlargement of the Tob^o hh^ds
from the late gauge of thirty Inches in the diameter of the
head to this Present guage a larger Quantity of tob^o will be
Exported in each hh^d whereby the duty & Imposition on Tob^o
by the hh^d will be Evidently retrencht & lessened unless a just
regard be had to the preservation of them in their usuall worth

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and value which this present Generall Assembly is highly
Obliged to the said Impost or duty being to be applyed & paid
to the Lord Propr^y in recompence & full Satisfaction for his
Alienation Fines & Quitt Rents And the better to Enable his

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