206 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

that this Generall Assembly think it their Duty and absolute neces-
sary to Ease it as farr as in Them lyes. Be it therefore Enacted by
the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid that an Act of Assem-
bly of this Province Entituled an Act laying an Imposition of three
pence p Hoggshead on Tobacco for Defraying the publick Charge of
this Province made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the
City of Annapolis the Twenty second Day of June Anno Dom. one
Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen shall after the Twenty

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Ninth day of September next be hereby utterly repealed and made
void. Provided also that from and after the said Twenty Ninth Day
of September in Case of Ship wreck or other Loss of any Ship or
Shipps Vessell or Vessells so that the Tobaccoes therein laden be
lost before the Delivery of such Ship or Vessell at the intended Port
then the Master Merchant or Owner of such Tobaccoes so laden and
lost as af^d who shall have paid the Duties afores^d shall have Liberty
to Ship at some other time so many Hoggsheads of Tobacco as they
had formerly paid Impost mony for as af^d free and clear of any the
said Impositions And be it further Enacted and Declared by the
Authority af^d by and with the Advice and Consent af^d that the
Publique of this Province shall not be burthened or charged with
any Sallary or Sallarys for the collecting all or any of the said Duties
and Imposts herein before menconed to be raised save only the Duty
of three pence p Hoggshead on Tobacco exported by this Act
appropriated for the purchaseing of Arms and Amunition for the
Defence of this Province which shall and is hereby intended to be
received by the severall Navall Officers of the respective Ports where
the same shall arise for which receiving they shall be allowed after the
rate of Eight p Cent and be and are hereby obliged to Account there-
fore with the publick Treasurers of this Province who shall render
Acc^t thereof to the Generall Assembly when thereto required, and
which Treasurers for receiving Accounting and paying the said
Duties as may be directed according to the Intention of this Act shall
Have and Receive the Sallary of two and a halfe p Cent and no
more and the said money to be lodged in the hands of such Merchant
or Merchants in London as the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly shall from time to time direct. And be it further Enacted by the
Authority af^d that the severall and respective Clerks of the Provin-
ciall and County Courts within this Province shall yearly and every
Year dureing the Continuance of this Act Ex Officio make out a true
and fair List of all such Alienations as shall be yearly recorded in the
respective Courts that is to say the Names of the Parties Grantor
and Grantee the Dates of the Deeds and Name of the Lands with
the Quantity thereof ready to be delivered to the Agent of the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietarie of this province when
required of such Clerks and in Case the Clerk of the Provinciall
Court shall neglect to do what is required of Him to be done by this