66 Assembly Proceedings, 1694-1728.

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of Deer Creek aforesaid until the fifteenth day of October next, and
the said Rangers so as aforesaid to be appointed are hereby Enjoyned
& required to Range with half partys weekly that is to say with four
persons and so by turns for the ease of each other yearly and every
year and their several posts & stations to be appointed unto them as
his Excellency the Govern^r for the time being shall think fitt. In
consideration of which services such persons so Ranging as aforesaid
shall have & receive the severall & respective Sallarys following that
is to say each person principally comanding as aforesaid shall be paid
& allowed the sum of Eight hundred pounds of Tobacco p month
for every month he shall be in service Each Lwetenant seven hun-
dred pounds of tobacco p month for every month that he shall be
in Service, and each private Centinel the sum of Six hundred pounds
of tobacco p month for every month that he shall be in service afore-
said the said several & respective Salarys to be levyed by the Govern^r
aforesaid & his Council on the Inhabitants of this Province by way
of equal Assessment any Act or Custom to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding, Provided allwayes and it is the true intent and
meaning hereof that this Act nor anything herein contained shall be
construed or taken to limitt or debarr his Excellency the Governeur
for the time being from Levying or raising any greater force without
the Advice & consent of the Freemen on any Emergent Occation and
as often as there shall seem to him to be just cause and the Sallary
payable to such forces so extraordinarily raised as aforesaid to Levy
as aforesaid provided the same do not extend beyond or exceed the
sum of sixty thousand pounds of tobacco by the year any thing in this
Act contayned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by & with the advice
& consent aforesaid that all persons that shall at any time hereafter
be prest by any person or persons whatsoever being thereunto Law-
fully Authorized upon any Publique Service whatsoever or that have
any accompts to put into the Publique for the future they prove their
accompts before the Justices of the County Courts where they do
dwell & reside and do send them down by one of the Deligates of
the said County that then the said accompts shall be received & taken
as sufficiently proved, and shall be allowed and paid to them out of the
publick. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by
and with the Advice and consent aforesaid that the former Act
of Assembly made at a Generall Assembly begun & held at City of
St. Maryes the one & twentieth day of September in the year of our
Lord one Thousand six hundred ninety four Intituled An Act for
the Appoynting of Rangers for the defence of this Province is
hereby repealed.

Acts of
Oct. 1695,
ch. 24

An Act Imposing the Duty of Ten p Centum Upon all European
Commodeties Exported out of this Province.

Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maj^ty by & with the
advice & Consent of this present Generall Assembly and by the