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pound: & further reciting that his present Lordship the Right Hon-
ourable Charles Lord Barren of Baltimore, Since the Decease of his
noble father the late Lord Benedict had Signified to the then present
General Assembly, his Willingness to Accept of Any Additional
Duty of Six pence Sterling per Hogshead in full Satisfaction for
his quit rents and fines for Alienations, that arise or grow due within
the said province during the Continuance of this Act, which was
thought by the General Assembly to tend to the good of the generality
of the poorer sort of Planters, and Especially those Orphans who
held lands within this province it was thereby Enacted that from and
after the 29^th day of September then next, there should be raised,
levied, Collected and paid 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, the Sum of two Shillings Sterling, and for
Every hundred weight of Tobacco Exported in box, Chest, barrel
or Case four pence Sterling, and so pro rato for a greater or lesser
quantity, to his Lordship the Lord Proprietary, in full Discharge
and satisfaction of his quit rents and fines for Alienations, that
should arise or grow due within this Province from and after the said
29^th day of September then next, and that the said Duty of two
shillings sterling per Hogshead, should after the said 29^th day of
September be paid to such officer or officers as his Lordship should
think fit to apoint to receive or Collect the same, by the Master or
Masters of every such ship or vessel respectively in which &^ta and by
the said act the aforesaid act made in 1715 is revived and Continued
in full force untill the 29^th day of September then next, and no
Longer, and this Act to Continue untill the 29^th day of September
which should be in the year of our Lord 1720 as by the said Act,
where to your Committee Crave leave to refer themselves, may ap-
pear, and which said act giving the said duty to the governor here
Actually Resideing was, as your said Committee, Conceives the
Cause that in 1717 another Act passed at a Session of Assembly
begun at the City of Annapolis on the 28^th day of May 1n the said
year, and in the first year of the Dominion of the Right Honourable

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Lib. No. 45

Charles Absolute Lord and proprietary &^ta Entituled an Act ascer-
taining the gauge and Tare of Tobacco Hogsheads and to prevent
Cropping Cutting and Defaceing Tobacco taken on board Ships or
vessels upon freight and for laying Impositions on Tobacco per Hogs-
heads for the Support of Government, and for Encouraging Settle-
ments in this province by ascertaining the manner of paying his Lord-
ships Alienation fines and quit rents for the Term therein proposed,
and for taking off the three pence per hogshead formerly raised for
the publick Charge; which Among other things recites as is before
mentioned to be recited Concerning the Enlargement of the gauge in
the aforesaid act, said to be passed in the aforesaid year 1715, and it is

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