272 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

Liber LL, 4
Acts
Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 13
(Amends
1714, ch. 2)
p. 489

A Supplementary Act to the Act Intituled An Act for Settling a
Revenue on her Majestys present Governour
Whereas his Excellency John Hart Esq^r our present Governour
hath Signified to this present Session of Assembly that in pursuance
to the licence he has had from his Sacred Majesty & the Lord Pro-
prietor to go to Great Brittain for twelve Months in order to the Es-
tablishing his health, he designs in a short time to depart this Prov-
ince And Forasmuch as some disputes might arise Concerning the
three pence p hogshead Settled on his Excellency John Hart Esq^r our
present Governour by An Act made at a Session of Assembly begun
and held at the City of Annapolis the twenty second day of June
Seventeen hundred & fourteen Entituled an Act for Settling a
Revenue on her Majestys present [Governour] whether the afore-
mentioned three pence p hogshead shall or Ought to be paid to his
Excellency during his absence from this Province, to remove any such
Disputes that may hereafter arise thereupon it is prayed that it may
Be Enacted.
And Be itt Enacted by the R^t honble the Lord Prop^ry by and with
the advice & Consent of his Lordships Governour and the upper and
Lower houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that an
Imposition of three pence Ster p hogshead upon all Tob^o that shall
be exported out of this province by land or by Water, and three
pence Sterl upon Every four hundred pounds of Tobb^o be it in
Chest or Case from the time that his Excellency John Hart Esq^r our
present Govern^r shall depart this province untill the full end of
twelve months after or untill his Comission for Lieutenant Gov-
ernour of this province, shall be actually Superseaded which shall
first happen, may be raised Levied & paid to his Excellency John
Hart Esq^r for his own use by the master of Every Ship or Vessell or
other psons trading into or Living in this pvince in Sterl money of
Great Brittain or in bills of Exchange att the Election or Choice of
the said Master or others to be Collected by the Navall Officer of the
Port or district where such Ship or Vessell shall enter or such other
person as his Excellency shall think fitt to Appoint.

Acts of
April, 1720,
ch. 16
p. 492

An Act to Confirme a Deed of Bargain and Sale from Francis
Swanson to Thomas Plummer.
Whereas Francis Swanson by his Deed of Bargain and Sale for
the Consideration therein mentioned which he had and Received bear-
ing Date the Fifteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord God
Sixteen hundred and Ninety four sold and Conveyed unto the said
Thomas Plumer a parcell of Land formerly lying in Calvert County
but now In Prince Georges County Containing one hundred Fifty
acres and being part of Swansons Lott which Deed was Indented and
Duely acknowledged but not Recorded according to Act of Assembly
and that the said Francis is Either Dead or Departed this Province