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Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts
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export or carry out of this Province either by Land or Water any
goods Wares or Merchandizes of the Growth Production or Mani-
facture of Europe that shall be Imported into this Province and shall
not before his or their Shipping off or carrying away of the same
make a faire & legal entry thereof with the Navall Officer of such
district where the same goods & Merchandizes shall happen to be
shipped off or carryed away out of this Province either by Land or by
Water, bona fide without fraud according to the true meaning and
Intention of this Act, and in case that such exporter or Exporters of
the Wares & Comodoties aforesaid are not any of the Inhabitants
or good people of this Province shall pay or cause to be paid to his
Sacred Majty or his Successors to the uses in this present Act here-
after mentioned, the severall rates & dutys before in this Act sett
forth and expressed, That is to say the Sum of Ten pounds for the
Value of every hundred pounds according to the true & reall Invoyce
thereof sent out of England and in default thereof according
to the reall & Intrinsick Value thereof in this Province and so
proportionably for a greater or lesser sume shall forfeit all such goods
Wares & Merchandizes or the full Value thereof so Shipped off or
carryed away or which shall be attempted to be Shipped off or carryed
away either by Land or by Water out of this Province and not duly
& fairly entred with the Naval Officer and the duty thereof paid
according to the true meaning of this Act (except as before Ex-
cepted) the one half to our Soveraign Lord the King or his Successors
for the use of this Province the other half thereof to the Informer or
him or them that shall seize sue or informe for the same to be recov-
ered in any Court of Record within this Province wherein no Essoyn
Protection or Wager of Law to be allowed, Provided allwayes that
it shall & may be Lawf ull to all such Shipps or Vessells coming into &
trading in Patowmuk River to transport their goods & merchandizes
from one side of the said River to the other as they shall think fitt
without paying the duty aforesaid in this Act contained and not else
where, they making due entry thereof as aforesaid anything in this
Act before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding. And be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid by & with the advice &
consent aforesaid that the several Naval Officers of the several & re-
spective districts within this Province shall yearly & every year during
the continuance of this Act account for & pay to the publick Treas-
urers of this Province for the time being all such sum or sums of
money as shall be by him or them collected & gathered by force &
Vertue of this Act and the said Treasurers are hereby enjoyned to
render their accounts thereof to the Generall Assembly of this Prov-
ince to be by them disposed to such Uses ends & purposes for the pub-
lick good & utility of the same as to them shall seem meet and con-
venient. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid by &
with the advice & consent aforesaid that every Naval Officer that shall
make such entrys as aforesaid shall for every such entry by him or
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