248 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739

U. H. J.

No. 734

bended within the Sence and meaning thereof not only by what may
be Gathered from the different Acts heretofore made of the. like kind
at the respective times when this Government was in the Hands of
the Proprietary or in the. Crown whereby the Aforesaid or the like
duty in one Case hath been always Given to the Proprietary and his
Heirs and in the other to the King and Queen their Heirs and Suc-
cessors for the support of their Governor and Government for the
time being But Also from what Appears to have been the Sence
of our present Lord Proprietary concerning the same from the time
of his Admission to the Government until the Year Seventeen hun-
dred and Thirty two Aforesaid by his Assenting and Becoming a
Party to several Acts made in that time for raising a duty for the
Support of his Government in every of which the said duty has been
Expressly Given to himself and his Heirs without mentioning the
King and likewise by his Assenting to and passing another Act
now Subsisting entituled an Act for transferring the Payment of all
such Fines and Forfeitures as shall hereafter Arise or happen upon
the Breach of any the Penal Laws of this Province to the right
Honourable the Lord Proprietor Although the Words by which
these Fines and Forfeitures are Given to the Kings and Queens
aforesaid are Exactly the same with those which Give the Twelve
Pence p hhd in the Act of Seventeen hundred and four and Foras-
much as it is not the Intention of this Assembly to deprive the right
Honourable the present Lord Proprietary of a sufficient and Honour-
able Support for his Government and Governor for the time being
in and over this Province but only to Assert and maintain to them-
selves their Constituents and Posterity that Principal And most
Essential Branch of Liberty which they Conceive themselves en-
tituled to as Subjects of Great Britain of not being Liable to the
Payment of any Money Tax Impost or duty Except such as shall
be Warranted Raised and Assessed by Laws made by themselves and
the other Branches of the Legislative Body of this Province It is
therefore humbly prayed that it may be enacted and be it Enacted by
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice

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and Consent of his Lordships Governor and the Upper and Lower

Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the came that for and

during the Continuance, of this Act the Sum of Twelve Pence Ster-
ling Money of Great Britain shall be raised Levied and Collected for
every Hogshead and Quantity of an Hogshead of Tobacco which
shall at any Time after the end of this Session of Assembly be Shipped
or put on Board any Ship or Vessel to be exported out of this
Province or any the Territories thereto belonging which said Sums
shall be Collected and Received by the several Naval Officers of this
Province of and from the Masters or Commanders of such Ships
or Vessels at the time or times of their Clearing out the said Ves-
sels at the Respective Custom Houses of this Province and the same