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An Act to continue an Act, intituled, An Act for raising a Duty of
Three Pence per Hogshead on all Tobacco exported out of this
Province, for the Uses therein mentioned.
Whereas, an Act of Assembly, made at Annapolis, at a Session of
Assembly held there, the Eleventh Day of July, in the Year of Our
Lord, Seventeen Hundred, and Thirty Two, entituled, An Act for
raising a Duty of Three Pence per Hogshead on all Tobacco ex-
ported out of this Province, for the Uses therein mentioned, was
pass'd; which Act was to continue until the Twenty Ninth Day of
September, in the Year of Our Lord, Seventeen Hundred, and
Thirty Three: And whereas, this present General Assembly, as well
to testify their Affection and Regard for the Honourable Samuel
Ogle, Esq; late Governor of this Province, as their Gratitude for
His just Administration, during His Government, are desirous to
encourage Learning, and willing that it may be Enacted :
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That the said
Act shall be continued from the said Twenty Ninth Day of Septem-
ber, until the Twenty Ninth Day of September, which shall be in the
Year of Our Lord, Seventeen Hundred, and Thirty Six.
Provided nevertheless, That in Case the said Samuel Ogle,
should dye, or be removed from being Governor, before the Twenty
Ninth Day of September, One Thousand, Seven Hundred, and
Thirty Six, that then, at the End of the next Session of Assembly
which shall happen after such Death, or Removal, as aforesaid, this
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Session
Laws
Chap. XI
[Continues
1732, ch. 30]
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An Act to impower the Inhabitants of Anne-Arundel, and Prince
George Counties, to make the main Branch of the River Patux-
ent navigable, above Queen-Anne Town, in Prince George County,
aforesaid.
Whereas, sundry of the Inhabitants of Anne-Arundel, and Prince
George Counties, in this Province, bordering on the main Branch
of Patuxent River, by their humble Petition to the Legislature of
this Province, have set forth, that the said main Branch of Patuxent
River may be made navigable; and that some Proposals are well
received for effecting the same, by Subscription, for upwards of
Twenty Miles above the said Town; and for that it appears to this
General Assembly, that great Advantages may accrue thereby, to
the Inhabitants of the said Counties, and also to others, trading or
resorting thereto: It is therefore prayed, it may be Enacted,
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Chap. IX
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