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

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Enlarging the gauge in the Last aforesaid Act, said to be passed
in the aforesaid year 1715, and tis by the said Act among other things
Enacted, that from and after the 29^th day of September then next,
there should be levied, Collected and raised to the Right Honourable
the Lord proprietary, his Heirs and Successors for Every Hogshead
of Tobacco, which should be shipped in any ship or Vessel [to] be
Exported out of this province, or any the Territories, Islands ports,
Rivers, Creeks, or places thereto belonging, after the said 29^th day
of September, the sum of fifteen pence in lieu, and stead of the twelve
pence Sterling formerly Imposed on every Hogshead of the fore-
mentioned former gauge, and for every Hundred weight of Tobacco
Exported in box Chest, barrel or Case Two pence half penny Ster-
ling, and so pro rato for a greater or lesser quantity, with a proviso,
that the money that should be raised by the said Duty should be
applied to those Ends and uses for which it had to that time been
raised, Viz. for the support of his Lordship's Government within
this province in manner following and not otherwise that is to say,
three pence of the said fifteen pence per hogshead for the Purchasing

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of Arms and Ammunition for the Maintaining a Magazine for the
better Defence of this province, and for the due preservation thereof
to be Collected by the proper officer, and paid to the Treasurer or
Treasurers of this province for the time being to be Disposed of to
the uses, aforesaid as the Governor and Council for the time should
Direct the other twelve pence to his Lordships Governor for the time
being actually Inhabiting and residing within this province for the
better Enableing him to Support the Honour and Dignity of Gov-
ernment and Effectually Execute the powers and authorities to him
Committed, to be Collected by the proper officers by him appointed,
and paid to such Governor as aforesaid: and that in Case of the
Death or absence of such Governor the one half of the said twelve
pence applied to the Governor as aforesaid, that should arise in such
a Vacancy, should be applied to the maintainance and Support of his
Lordships Council as should then preside, the other half to be ap-
plied towards Building a house for his Lordship's Governor, and be
Lodged in the Public Treasurer's hands for that use; and the said
act reciting also, that the General Assembly of this province, on the
26^th day of April 1715 made their humble Application to the late
Right Honourable Benedict Leonard Lord Baron of Baltimore that
he would be favourable pleased to accept &c: as in the aforesaid Act
of 1715, is as aforesaid recited, Concerning the payment of his Lord-
ships quit rents and alienation fines, and reciting further that a Law
was then passed for raising of an Impost of Eighteen pence Sterling
per hogshead and three pence Sterling per Hundred on Tobacco
Exported out of this province in Box, Chest, barrel or Case, for the
use of the said Lord proprietary, in Consideration of his taken
rents and Alienation fines in Tobacco at two pence Sterling per