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of every One Hundred Pounds Sterling; and so in Proportion for
a greater or lesser Sum, which such Person or Persons shall pay in
Gold or Silver as aforesaid; and the Officer or Officers making such
Allowance, shall be accountable for no more than he shall receive
after such Allowance made as aforesaid.
And to prevent the Changing of Gold and Silver carried from
out of this Province into another, in order to have the Benefit of
this Act,
Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice, and Consent aforesaid,
That every Person or Persons, claiming the Deduction of Fifteen
per Cent, as aforesaid, shall, before he or they shall have any Ad-
vantage thereof by this Act, take the following Oath (mutatis mu-
tandis) before the Officers appointed to receive the same Duties,
Rates, and Impositions, who are hereby impowered and directed to
tender the same, viz.
I A. B. Do swear, That the Sum of Gold and Silver which I now
pay, in Discharge of the Rates, Duties, and Impositions for the
Goods and Commodities by me imported at this Time of Entry,
was imported by me into this Province, and not purchased or pro-
cured by my self or any other Person for my Use in this Province,
nor was ever carried from out of this Province by my self or any
other Person for my Use, with Design of bringing it back again for
the Allowance of Fifteen per Cent, on the Duties arising upon the
Commodities by me now imported; nor that the same Gold or Sil-
ver hath been Exchanged, or obtained by Barter, or in any Manner
whatsoever, directly or indirectly, by my self, or any other Person,
for any Sum or Sums of Money in Gold or Silver exported or car-
ried from the Province of Maryland, by me, or any other Person,
to the best of my Knowledge. So help me God.
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And that the Officer or Officers, who shall allow the said Fifteen
Pounds per Cent, as aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby obliged and
directed to make Oath, before he or they pass his or their Accounts
to be administred by one Provincial Justice, or two Justices of the
County Courts, that the Sum or Sums of Money for which the said
Officer or Officers shall crave the Allowances of Fifteen Pounds
per Cent, as aforesaid, in his or their Accounts, was or were, bona
fide, paid by the Person or Persons directed as aforesaid, to pay the
same to the said Officer or Officers: And that the Oath before di-
rected to be taken by such Person or Persons, was taken by such
Person or Persons at the Time of such Payment; and which Oath
being certified by the said Justice or Justices, it shall and may be
lawful to and for such Treasurer or Treasurers to allow the Deduc-
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