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for every Hoggshead of Tobacco which shall be shipt in any Ship
or Vessell to be exported out of this Province or any the Territories
Islands Ports Rivers Creeks or places thereto belonging after the
Twenty ninth Day of September af^d the sume of Fifteen pence sterl
in Lieu and stead of the Twelve Pence Sterling formerly imposed on
every Hoggshead of the forementioned former Gage and for every
Hundred Weight of Tobacco exported in Box Chest Barrell or Case
two pence half penny Sterling and so pro rato for a greater or lesser
Quantity Provided always that the money that shall be raised by the
said Duty shall be applyed to those Ends and uses for which it has
hitherto been raised Videlicet for the Support of his Lordships Gov-
ernment within this Province in manner following and not otherwise,
that is to say, Three pence of the said Fifteen Pence per Hoggshead
for the purchaseing Armes and Ammunition for the maintaining a
Magazine for the better Defence of this Province and for the due
Preservation thereof to be collected by the proper Officer and paid
to the Treasurer or Treasurers of this Province for the time being to
be disposed of to the uses af^d as the Governour & Councill for the
time being shall direct the other twelve pence to his Lordships Gov-
ernour for the time being actually inhabiting and resideing within
this Province for the better Enabling Him to support the Honour
and Dignity of Government and effectually to execute the Powers
and Authorities to Him committed to be collected by the Proper
Officers by Him appointed and paid to such Governour as af^d And
in case of the Death or Absence of such Governour the one halfe of
the said Twelve Pence applyed to the Governour as af^d that shall

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arise in such Vacancy shall be applyed to the Maintenance and Sup-
port of such of his Lordships Councill as shall then preside the other
halfe to be applyed towards the building an House for his Lordships
Governour and be lodged in the Publick Treasurers Hands for that
use And be it further Enacted that the said Duty and Impost shall
be from time to time paid and satisfied by the Master or Masters of
every such Ship or Vessell respectively in which any such Tobacco
shall be exported upon his or their clearing or taking out his or their
Dispatch or Dispatches for every such respective Ship or Vessel and
before the Departure of such Ship or Vessell and the Master or
Masters of every such Ship or Vessell coming into this Province shall
at their first Arrivall here and before their Loading on board any
Goods or Commodeties of the Growth Production or Manufacture
of this Province Give good and Suff^t Security to his Excellency
the Governour or the Officer thereunto Especially appointed for
the payment of the said Duty or Imposition accordingly And
whereas the Generall Assembly of this Province on the Twenty
sixth day of April Anno Dom. Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen made
their humble Application to the late Right Honourable Benedict
Leonard Lord Baron of Baltemore that He would be favourably
pleased to Accept of his Rents and Fines for Alienations in Tob^o

p. 307