596 Assembly Proceedings, 1714-1726.

Session
Laws
1726
Chap. III
[Wm Parks
compilation,
1727, p. 292;
revives 1720,
ch. I]

An Act for reviving an Act, Entituled, An Act for raising a Duty
of Three Pence per Hogshead, on all Tobacco exported out of
this Province, for the Uses therein mentioned.

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That an Act made at a Session of Assembly, begun and
held at the City of Annapolis, the Eleventh Day of October, Anno
Domini Seventeen Hundred and Twenty, Entituled, An Act for
Raising a Duty of Three Pence per Hogshead on all Tobacco ex-
ported out of this Province, for the Uses therein mentioned, be and
is hereby Revived, and Continued to be and remain in full Force,
from the Twenty Ninth Day of September next, until the Twenty
Ninth Day of September, which shall happen in the Year One
Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty Nine.

1726
Chap. IV
[Wm Parks
compilation,
1727, p. 292 ;
revives 1717,
ch. 77]

An Act Reviving and Continuing the Act for ascertaining the
Gauge and Tare of Tobacco-Hogsheads, &c.

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That the above-mentioned Act, Entituled, An Act
ascertaining the Gauge and Tare of Tobacco-Hogsheads; and to
prevent .Cropping, Cutting and Defacing Tobacco taken on Board
Ships or -Vessels, upon Freight; and for laying Impositions on
Tobacco, per the Hogshead, for the Support of Government; and
for the encouraging Settlements in this Province, by ascertaining
the Manner of paying his Lordship's Alienation-Fines and Quit-
Rents, for the Term therein proposed; and for taking off the Three
Pence per Hogshead, formerly raised for the Publick Charge, made
at a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis,
the Twenty Eighth Day of May, Anno Domini One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Seventeen, be and is hereby Revived and Con-
tinued to be and remain in full Force, from the Twenty Ninth Day
of September next, until the Twenty Ninth Day of September,
which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Twenty Nine.

1726
Chap. V
[Wm Parks

compilation,

1727, p. 292;

repeals 1725,
ch. 13]

p. 293

An Act Repealing an Act of Assembly, Entituled, An Act for the
Release of poor distressed Prisoners for Debt.

Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietor, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of this present General Assem-
bly, and the Authority of the same, That an Act of Assembly made
at a Session of Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis,
i the Sixth Day of October, Anno Dom' One Thousand Seven Hun-