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nition for the Defence of this province and Defraying other public
and Necessary Charges of the Government, provided always that
so long as the said Act should Continue his Lordship, his receiver
or Receivers General, for the time being, should receive good sound
and Merchantable Tobacco when tendered, for his said Lordships,
rents or fines for Alienation of Lands reserved upon the severall
and respective grants of Land in this province at the rate of two
pence per pound, any thing in his Lordship's Grants to the Contrary
thereof notwithstanding by which said act, it was also Enacted, that
the same should Continue During the natural Life of the Right
Honourable Cecilius then Lord and proprietary of this province, and
for one Crop more next after his Decease and no longer as by the said
Act relation thereunto being had may appear.

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Your Committee do further find, that by an Act of Assembly made
and passed at a general Assembly, held at the City of S^t Marys the
13^th Day of April in the forty second year of the Dominion of the
Right Honourable Cecilius &c Annoque Domini 1674 his Excellency
Charles Calvert being governor Entituled an Act of Gratitude to his
Excellency Charles Calvert Esq^r Cap^t General of Maryland after
reciting the said last mentioned Act of Assembly throughout, it is
Enacted that the said recited act, and all and Every the articles Provi-
soes matters and things therein Contained should stand and be by the
said Act ratified and Confirmed to all Intents and purposes according
to the true intent and meaning of the said recited act not only for and
during the Life of the Right Honourable Cecilius absolute Lord and
proprietary of this province, and for one Crop after as aforesaid but
also for and During the natural Life of the Right Honourable
Charles Calvert Esq^r son and heir apparent of the said Cecilius then
Lord proprietary, and no longer and that from and after the decease
of him the said Cecilius Lord Proprietary, the said Duty and Impo-
sition of two shillings per Hogshead should be levied, raised, Col-
lected and paid to the said Charles Calvert Esq^r for and during the
term of his natural Life as af^d Provided always nevertheless, that
all and Every the several provisoes in the said recited Act Contained,
should during the Continuance of this act stand in full force and
virtue and be Inseparably annexed thereunto, as by the said act,
whereto your Committee Craves leave to refer, may appear. Your
said Committee do further find that by an act made at a general As-
sembly, held at the City of S^t Marys, the 15^th day of May in the first
year of the Dominion of Charles &c Annoque Domini 1676 En-
tituled an Act for Continuing the payment of the Imposition of two
Shillings per Hogshead during the life of the Honourable Cecilius
Calvert Esq^r son and heir of the Right Honourable Charles
absolute Lord and Proprietary of the province of Maryland and
Avalon Lord Baltimore &c. in case he Survives his Lordship:
after reciting both the aforementioned Acts it is Enacted that
the said last recited act and all and every Articles: provisoes matters

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