322 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 12, 1739.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

to Continue untill the 29^th Day of September 1733 and which said
act we find Continued by an Act made at a Session of Assembly
held at the place aforesaid the 20^th Day of April 1736 untill the 29^th
Day of September 1739.
Your Committee also find, that fifteen pence per hogshead is Im-
posed on Every hogshead of Tobacco to be Exported from and after
the 29^thday of September then next Ensuing, as may appear by an
Act of Assembly made at a Session of Assembly held at the port of
Annapolis aforesaid the 13^th Day of March 1732: Entituled an Act
for Emitting and making Current ninety Thousand pounds Current
money of Maryland in bills of Credit.
Your Committee find at a Session of Assembly held at the same
port the 20^th Day of March 1734 an Act Did pass Entituled an Act
for raising three pence per hogshead on all Tobacco to be Exported
for Purchasing arms and Ammunition which was to Continue for
three years and to the End of the next Session of Assembly which
should happen after the Expiration of the said three years and which
Law your Committee Conceive will Expire with this Session.
Your said Committee beg leave further to acquaint your house
that they find an Act of Assembly made, and passed at a General
Assembly begun and held at S^t Marys in this province the 27^th
Day of March in the nine and thirtieth year of the Dominion of
Cecilius &c. annoque Domini 1671, Entituled an Act for the raising
and providing a Support for his Lordship the Lord and proprietary
of this province During his Natural Life and likewise a Supply
towards the Defraying the Publick Charges of Government by which
said Act, tis among other things recited that for and towards the
Defraying the many great and necessary Expences of Government
and to the Intent his Lordship, his Heirs and Successors absolute
lords and Proprietaries of this province might for the future be
Enabled in some Measure to Defray the [m] and in Particular to allow
Competent Salaries and Encouragement to the Lieutenant Generals
and Cheif Governors and to the privy Council of the lord and pro-
prietary of this province for the Time being so as without prejudice
to their private affairs, they might be Encouraged, and Reasonably
required to attend unto the administration of Justice and other pub-
lick Concernments it is by the said Act among other things Enacted,
that from and after this first Day of September then next coming,
there should be raised, levyed Collected and paid to his Lordship the
Lord Proprietary of this province the Sum of two Shillings Sterling
for Every hogshead and quantity of an hogshead of Tobacco, which
should be at any time thereafter Shipped in any Ship or Vessel to be
Exported out of this province or to any the Territories Islands, ports,
Rivers, Creeks or places thereunto belonging provided always, that
one half of the money by the said Act to be raised, be Imployed to-
wards the maintaining a Constant Magazine with arms and Ammu-