16 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts

hereof, any person or persons whatsoever Inhabiting or trading
into this Province that shall presume to carry any Liquors what-
soever to any Indian Forte Towne or Cabbin and shall vend or
dispose of the same to any Indian or Indians whatsoever such person
or persons shall forfeite the Sume of Five Thousand pounds of
Tobaccoe one halfe thereof to our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the
King and Queen their heyres & Successors for supporte of Govern-
ment the other halfe to him or them that shall informe and sue for
the same to be recovered in any Court of Record within this Province,
wherein no Essoyne Proteccon or wager of Law to be allowed.
This Act to Continue for three yeares or to the end of the next
Sessions of Assembly which shall first happen.

Acts of 1694,
ch. 23
(Repealed
by 1695,

Ch. 22)

An Act for the laying an Imposicon on severall Comodityes exported
out of this Province.

Be it Enacted by the King and Queens most Excellent Ma^tys by and
with the advice and consent of this present Generall Assembly and the
Authority of the same that from and after the Publicacon hereof any
person or persons whatsoever Inhabiting or residing within this
Province that shall trade barter or traffick with any Indian or
Indians or other persons whatsoever within this Province for any
Furrs within this Act hereafter menconed & expressed with Intent to
exporte the same either for England or any other their Ma^tys Plan-
tacons here in America shall pay unto their most Sacred Ma^tys their
heires & Success^rs to be imployed towards the mainteynance of a
Freeschoole within the Province aforesaid the severall dutyes &
Impost following (that is to say) for every Baire skin nine pence
sterling for Beaver skins four pence p skin, for Otters threepence p
skin, for wild Catts Foxes Minxes Fishers and Wolfe skins one penny
halfe penny p skin, for Musk Ratt skins fourpence p dozen, for
Raccoons three farthings p skin, for young Bair and Cub skins two
pence p skin, and that all nonresidents trading into this Province
that shall from and after the Publicacon aforesaid barter or traffick
with any Indian or Indians or other persons whatsoever within the
same for any Furrs or skinns before menconed shall for every skin
of what nature or quallity soever being comprised within this Act
and by him Exported out of this Province pay unto their said Ma^tys
their heyres and Success" for the use aforesaid double the duty
by this Act appointed to be paid by persons Inhabiting and residing
within this Province, the same severall Imposicons to be Collected
by the severall & respective Navall Officers within this Province
which said Navall Officers shall once a year render an Account of the
said Imposicon unto the Govern^rs Trustees and Visitors of the said
Freeschools for the tyme being who shall and are hereby authorised
and impowred to order and dispose of the same for the uses intents
and purposes aforesaid And to the End the severall Imposicons may
be justly and duly paid without fraude or deceite