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Acts of the General Assembly hitherto unpublished 1694-1698, 1711-1729
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Acts. 63


An Act for the Imposition of Four pence p Gallon on Liquors
Imported into this Province.
For raising money for building & repairing Court houses Free
Schools Bridewells or such publique Services, It is by this present
Generall Assembly thought that no greater expedient can be found
then by assessing of an Imposition of four pence p gallon on all such
Liquors as shall be Imported into this Province (Liquors from
England onely excepted) Wherefore We your Majtys most dutifull
& Loyall Subjects the Deligates & Burgesses of this present Generall
Assembly do humbly pray that it may be Enacted, And be it Enacted
by the Kings most Excellent Majty by & with the advice & consent of
this present Generall Assembly and by the Authority of the same
that from & after the Publication hereof all Masters of Shipps &
other Vessels that shall Import any Liquors into this Province shall
pay unto his Majtys Navall Officers for the time being for the use
of this Province the sum of four pence p gallon for every gallon of
Liquor imported into this Province as aforesaid. And be it Enacted
by the Authority aforesaid by & with the advice & consent aforesaid
that all Shipps or other Vessels which were built in this Province
before the making of the former Act of Assembly Intituled an Act
for the Imposition of four pence p Gallon on Liquors imported into
this Province & which are wholy & solely belonging to the Inhabitants
thereof shall pay to his Majtys Navall Officers for the time being the
sum of two pence p Gallon for every Gallon of Liquor that shall be by
them Imported into this Province & no more (Liquors from England
excepted) and all Shipps & other Vessells which have since the mak-
ing of the aforesaid Act of Assembly or which shall at any time here-
after be built by and wholy & solely belong to the good people the
Inhabitants of this Province shall be wholy exempted & acquitted
from paying the Imposition of four pence p gallon aforesaid. And
whereas this present Generall Assembly do find that the money of this
Province is most or the greatest part thereof conveyed into Pensil-
vania to purchase beer rum & other Liquors to the great dis-
couragement of Husbandry & Tillage in this Province, Be it like-
wise Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by & with the advice &
consent aforesaid that all persons Importing beer or other Liquors
from Pensilvania into this Province by Land ( Except what is here-
after in this Act Excepted) shall pay unto his Majestys Navall
Officers for the time being the sum of six pence p gallon for beer,
and the sum of nine pence p gallon for rum wine & other Liquors
Imported and brought into this Province by Land from Pensilvania
aforesaid; Provided allways and it is hereafter declared that this Act
nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the charging any
Liquors whatsoever Imported by Water into this Province from
Pensilvania or any other place with more then the Imposition of
four pence p gallon hereby before imposed, all which dutys arriseing
by such Imposition of Liquors as aforesaid shall be collected & gath-

Public
Record
Office.
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
Acts of
Oct. 1695,
ch. 20



 
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