82 Assembly Proceedings, 1604-1728.

Public
Record
Office,
London.
C. O. 5,
Vol. 731,
Maryland.
From
1694-1702.
Acts

modities imported in any ship comeing into this Province and con-
signed to any Inhabitant in Virginia to such inhabitants as they are
consigned to without payment of the duty of ten per Cent in the said
Act menconed. Provided such person or persons Soe importing &
exporting to Virginia doe before such exportacons make entry of
such goods & Commodities with the officer appointed for such
purposes, & doe at the same time make oath with such officer that the
said goods are only designed for Virginia and there designed to be
sould & disposed without being removed from thence to any other
place except to this Province againe & shall also give bond at the
same time to such officer that the said goods shall not be exported
from Virginia to any other place except to this place again, anything
in the said Act of Assembly to the contrary notwithstanding.

Acts of
July, 1696,
ch. 11

A supplementary act to the act for raiseing a supply for defraying
the publique charge of this Province.

Whereas by a certain act of Assembly (made att a Sessions of
Assembly begun & held att the Port of Annapolis the 8^th day of
May Anno Domini 1695) intituled an act for raiseing a supply to-
wards the defraying of the publique charge of this Province amongst
other things it is enacted that the severall Officers enjoying or pos-
sessing any place or office of proffitt within this Province shall pay
& deposite for the use of the publique the severall & respective
summes therein menconed to be paid unto the Treasurers of this
Province for the time being but in & by the said act no authority is
given to the said Treasurers or any other Officer or Officers in case
of non payment to sue for the same. Bee it therefore enacted by the
Kings most Excellent Majesty by & with the advice & consent of this
present Gennerall Assembly & the authority of the same that the
severall & respective summes in the aforesaid act menconed shall be
paid by the said severall & respective officers to our Soveraigne Lord
the King his heirs & successors for the use aforesaid & that the
severall & respective Treasurers for the time being on the Easterne
& Western Shears so farr as their severall & respective authorities
extend shall have full power & authority to recover & sue for the said
severall and respective summes in the said Act menconed & after
Judgment obtained to Levy or cause to be Levyed the said severall
& respective summes by Execucon & the same so recovered to pay to
our Soveraigne Lord the King his heirs and successors to & for the
use in the act expressed any thing in the said act contained to the
contrary notwithstanding. This act to endure for three years or to
the end of the next Gennerall Assembly which shall first happen.

Acts of
July, 1696
ch. 12
(Repealed
1698, ch. 19)

An act prohibiting all manner of profain sweareing and Curseing.

Forasmuch as the Burgesses & Delegates of this present Generall
Assembly have taken into their serious consideracons that the great
& hainous sins of common prophane swearing & curseing is hugely