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lected and paid, for every hogshead of Tobacco which should be
shipped in ship or Vessel to be Exported out of this province or any
the Territories, Islands, ports, rivers, Creeks or places thereunto

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

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 Lord-
ship 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 end of the then present Ses-
sion of Assembly, and the said Duty of two shillings Sterling per
hogshead should after the end of the said Session be paid to such
officer or officers, as his Lordship should think fit to appoint to
receive or Collect the same, by the Master or Masters of every such
ship or Vessel Respectively, in which &^ta: and it was by the said
Act also Enacted, that the aforesaid Act of Assembly herein before
mentioned to have been made and Passed in the aforesaid year 1716
should be and remain in full force and Virtue untill the last men-
tioned Act should Take place, and thereafter to be Entirely void,
and thereby repealed; and it is in the said Act also Enacted, that the
said Act should Continue untill the 29^th day of September which
should be in the year 1720 by the said Act, relation thereunto
being had may appear; and under which act, and the several renew-
ments thereof, his Lordship Continued to receive the duty thereby
ariseing for support of Government, and in lieu of his quit rents and
Alienation fines, untill the same determined on the 29^th of September
1733, upon which Determination of the act aforesaid as appears to
your said Committee, his Lordship has ever Since (under pretext
and Colour of the afore recited act of 1704 in the Reign of Queen
Ann of Pious Memory) caused the said twelve pence Sterling per
hogshead to be levied Collected and raised to his own proper use.
Your Committee humbly observe, that by the frequent Continu-
ance and reenacting the said Act of 1692 during the time wherein
the Government and protection of this province was in the Crown,

that the Legislators did not deem the same, or any of them, perpetual

but to have duration only with such governor or Government. Your
Committee likewise observe, that it was the sense of the Legislators
that Acts granting to the Proprietary for support of his Government
did not extend to that of the King, as is plainly Manifested in the act
of 1692, that of 1676 being still unrepealed, and having expressly
its duration with the Life of Charles Lord Baltimore, Lord proprie-
tary of this Province.
And again when the Government was restored to his Lordship
the Lord proprietary, the Act of gauge and Tare was made for sup-
port of his Lordships Government, and other uses therein Expressed,
and with great Submission, your Committee humbly Conceive that the
Sense of the Legislators in this point is Clearly Expressed, that is,

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