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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

the respective lives of the Right Honourable Cecilius Calvert, Charles
Calvert, and also of Cecil Calvert son and Heir of the said Right
Honourable Charles Calvert that notwithstanding the sense of the
Legislature then was that an act or acts Imposing a duty on To-
bacco Exported to the use and Support of his Lordship's Government,
did not Extend to the government under [their] Majesties, where-

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fore we Humbly presume the said act of 1692, herein before recited,
was made for the support of his Majesty's Governor and Government
for the time being, as by the said act relation thereunto had may more
at large appear. Your said Committee most Humbly beg leave fur-
ther to observe that by what appears to them, the said Duty Con-
tinued to be levied and raised by the said recited act of 1699, untill
the year 1704, in the Reign of her late most Sacred Majesty Queen
Ann of Pious memory, and at which time an Act passed Entituled an
Act for Settlement of an Annual revenue upon her Majesty's Gov-
ernor within this province for the time being; in which said act is
recited the before mentioned Act made and passed in the year 1671
and after reciting also the Said Act before mentioned to have been
made and passed on the 10^th day of May 1n the year 1692 it is by the
said act among other things Enacted, that the said one Shilling per
hogshead for the Defraying the Charges of Government aforesaid
as well for such ships or vessels as had then already Cleared before the
making of this Act, as such then remaining in this province should be
raised, levied, Collected and paid unto our the Sovereign Lady the
Queen's most Excellent Majesty, her Heirs and Successors for the
Support of her Government for the time being in and over this her
Majesty's province aforesaid, and the Territories to the same belong-
ing, for Every hogshead and quantity of an hogshead of Tobacco,
which had been for and during the time aforesaid, or which thereafter
should be at any time Shipped in any Ship or Vessel to be Exported
out of this province or any the Territories Islands, ports, rivers
Creeks, or places thereunto belonging: as aforesaid; provided always,
and it is by this Act Decleared to be the true Intent and meaning
thereof, that this act nor any thing therein Contained should be ad-
judged, Construed, reputed or Taken (any thing therein Expressed
to the Contrary notwithstanding) to Disannul or make void his
Lordships Right to the other Moiety of the said Two shillings per
hogshead, to be paid in Consideration of his rents and Alienation
money in Tobacco at Two pence per pound, during the term of his
natural life, but that the same be kept and by this act preserved to
his Lordship, in as full and ample manner as by the said recited law
is Expressed or Intended or in the least to Discharge his Lordship of
receiving the rents aforesaid at two pence per pound, as by the said
recited Act is Enjoined, during also the term of his natural Life,
nor to Discharge his Lordship from accounting for the arrears of
one shilling per hogshead for support of the Government, and pro-