Acts. 205

Honb^le the Lord Proprietarie by and with the Advice and Consent
of his Lordships Governeur and the Upper and Lower Houses of
Assembly and by the Authority of the same that from and after the
Twenty ninth Day of September next there shall be Raised Levyed
Collected and paid 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, the Sume of Two Shillings Sterling and for every Hun-
dred weight of Tobacco Exported in Box Chest Barrell or Case Four
Pence Sterl and so pro rato for a Greater or lesser Quantity to his
Lordship the Lord Proprietary in full Discharge and Satisfaction of
his Quit Rents and Fynes for Alienations and that shall arise or
grow due within this Province from and after the said Twenty ninth
day of September and that the said Duty of two Shillings Sterl p
hoggshead shall after the said Twenty ninth day of September afore-
said be paid to such Officer or Officers as his Lordship shall think fit
to appoint to receive or collect the same by the Master or Masters of
every such Ship or Vessell respectively in which any such Tobacco
shall be exposed on or after the said Twenty ninth day of September
next during the Continuance of this Act upon his or their clearing or
taking out his or their Dispatch or Dispatches for every such
respective Ship or Vessell and before the Departure of such Ship or
Vessell and the Master or Masters of every such Ship or Vessell com-
ing into this Province shall at their first Arrivall here and before their
loading on board any Goods or Comodities of the Growth Production
or Manufacture of this Province give good and sufficient Security
for the payment thereof as is herein before directed.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority af^d that the Act of
Assembly of this Province Entituled an Act for ascertaining the
Gage and Tare of Tobacco Hoggsheads and to prevent cropping
cutting and defaceing Tobacco taken on board Ships or Vessells upon
Freight and for laying Impositions on Tobacco p the Hoggshead for
the Support of Government and for the Encourageing settlements in
this Province by ascertaining the Manner of paying the Alienation
Fynes and Quit Rents to the Lord Proprietarie of this Province on
the Conditions therein menconed made at a Session of Assembly
begun and held at the Port of Annapolis the Twenty Sixth of Aprill
Anno Domini Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen be and is hereby
revived and continued in full Force untill the Twenty ninth Day of
September next and no longer And whereas it is considered by this
present Generall Assembly that the Levying and imposing the Ad-
ditional Duty of six pence p Hoggshead for his Lordship in full
Discharge of the Quit Rents and Fines for Alienations as af^d will
advance the whole Duty at present on Tobacco exported out of this
Province to the sume of Three Shillings and nine [pence] Sterl p
Hoggshead which will be so great a Burthen on the Tobacco Trade

Liber LL, 4
Acts
p. 309