Acts. 65

Impost so ariseing and a just & faithfull Account once a year thereof
to give & render to the Publick Treasurers of this Province for the
time being authorized for the receiving the said Impost, for which
they shall have for their Sallary four pounds p Cent, who are to be
answearable and give good bond for the same to be accomptable &
render an account to the next meeting of Assembly who shall have
the ordering and disposeing of the same except what shall be disposed
of this present Generall Assembly. And be it further Enacted by
the Authority aforesaid by and with the Advice and Consent afore-
said that every Master, of a Shipp or other Vessell, at the time of his
entry of such Ship or Vessell wherein such Liquor shall be Imported
as aforesaid shall render upon Oath an account of the Quallity &
Quantity of such Liquors as aforesaid and that the severall & respec-
tive Navall Officers within this Province for the time being shall at
the time of their entring such Shipps and Vessells as aforesaid take
good & Sufficient Securety in his Maj^tys name for the payment of the
Imposicon aforesaid to such uses & purposes and in such manner &
forme as by this Act is appointed; and that all persons Importing any
Liquors by Land from Pensilvania and not making due entry thereof,
or concealing the duty hereby imposed shall be subject to the same
paines & penalties as for not making due entry or concealing any
Liquors Imported into this Province by water as aforesaid And
be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, by & with the
advice & consent aforesaid That one Act of Assembly of this Province
heretofore made Intituled an Act for the Imposition of four pence per
gallon on Liquors Imported into this Province, and every branch
thereof be and is hereby repealed, This Act to endure for three years
or to the end of the next Assembly which shall first happen.

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1694-1 702

Acts

An Act Appoynting Rangers for the Defence of this Province.
Forasmuch as it hath been represented to this present Generall
Assembly that it would be of great service to this Province and to
the good People the Inhabitants thereof to appoynt Persons to be
Rangers for the better defence & Security of this Province from
Foreign Enemies and from their Incursions, and that the said
Rangers should yearly Range from the Falls of Patowmack unto
the draughts of Susquehannock Rivers above the North side of
Deer Creek. Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty
by & with the Advice & Consent of this present Generall Assembly
and the Authority of the same that it shall & may be lawfull to and
for the Govern^r of this Province for the time being to order and send
forth sixteen persons willing to serve or otherwise such & so many
to command out of the several & respective Countys of the Province
to be divided into two distinct partys that is to say six persons a
Comander & Lwetenant of each party who shall from the tenth day
of Aprill next keep out & range from the Falls of Patowmack unto
the first Draughts of Susquehannock Rivers above the North side

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Acts of
Oct 1695,
ch. 23