Acts. 9

according as their Ma^tys by their said Commission and Instruccons
have beene pleased gratiously to appoint and direct and that one Act
of Assembly made at the Gen^rall assembly of this Province begun &
held at the City of St. Maryes the Tenth day of May in the yeare of
our Lord One Thousand six Hundred Ninety & Two Entituled an
Act for Appeals & Regulateing Writts of Error and every part thereof
be and is hereby utterly repealed & made voide And that all Writts of
Error or Appeals already made from any Judgement of the Provin-
ciall Court to the Govern^r and Councill in the Assembly shall & may
be heard & determined by the said Govern^r & Councill out of Assembly
tyme any thing in the same Writt or any other former Law or Prac-
tice to the contrary notwithstanding. This Act to endure for three
yeares or to the end of the next Sessions of Assembly.

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

An Act for the Imposition of four pence per Gallon on Liquors
imported into this Province.

For raising money for building and repairing Court houses Free
schools Bridewells or such Publick services It is by this generall
Assembly thought that no greater Expedient can be found then by
assessing an Impost upon Liquors of f ourpence p Gallon upon all such
Liquors as shall be imported into this Province (Liquors from
England only excepted) Wherefore wee your Ma^tys most humble &
Loyall Subjects the Delegates & Burgesses of this present gen^rall
Assembly humbly pray that it may be enacted and Be it Enacted by
the King & Queens most Excellent Ma^tys by & with the advice &
Consent of this present gen^rall Assembly & the Authority of the same
that from & after the Publicacon hereof All masters of Shipps & other
Vessels (except such as shall be built and properly belonging unto
the People of this Province) importing Liquors into this Province
pay unto their Ma^tys Navall Officer for the tyme being for the use
of this Province the Sume of fourpence p Gallon for every Gallon
of Liquors imported into this Province as aforesaid. And whereas
this present Generall Assembly do find that the moneys of this
Province is most or the greatest parte thereof conveyed into Pensyl-
vania to purchase Beer Rume & other Liquors to the great discour-
agement of Husbandry & Tillage in this Province Be it therefore
Enacted by the King & Queens most Excellent Ma^tys by & with
the Advice & Consent of this present Generall Assembly & the Author-
ity of the same That all persons importing Beer or other Liquors
except what is hereafter excepted from Pensylvania by land into this
Province shall pay unto their Ma^tys said Officers sixpence p Gallon
for every Gallon of Beer or other Liquors so imported as aforesaid
And that all persons whatsoever importing any Rume from Pensyl-
vania by land into this Province shall pay unto their said Ma^tys
Navall officer aforesaid nine pence p Gallon for every Gallon of
Rume so imported as aforesaid. Provided nevertheless and it is

Acts of 1694,
ch. 19
(Continued
by 1695,
ch. 16)