The Lower House. 377

cellor by him appointed to Vacate such Grants so as aforesaid by
him or his Ancestors made to the Intolerable expence charge and
Aggrievance of the people and may in Time if not prevented tend
to the utter Subversion of the Landed Estate or property of the
Good People of this Province for which they and their Predecessors
have honestly paid a full consideration to his Lordship and his
Ancestors and for the Enjoyment of which in Quiet and Security,
they left their native Country, Risqued their Lives against a Heathen
Merciless Savage People the Inclemencies of the Seas Air, Intem-
parature of Climate But your Committee humbly submit the same
to the Consideration of your Honourable House
Signed p Order of the Committee S Bordley Ci Com.

On Reading this Report the Consideration thereof is referred
to Saturday morning
The Bill Entituled An Explanatory Act to the Act Entituled An
Act for the speedy Trial of Criminals & ascertaining their Punish-
ments in the County Courts &c^a Read the second time and will not
pass
George Plater Esq^r from the Upper House delivers M^r Speaker
the following Bill Entituled (For the text of this bill see page 247.)

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

And the following message ( See page 246. )

On Motion ordered that the Act Entituled An Act for Settle-
ment of An Annual Revenue upon her Majestys Governor within
this province for the time being made 1704 be entered at large in
the Journal of this House that the same may appear to all Impartial
Judges how far the said Law can be supposed to have been made or
Intended for the Benefit of the Lord Proprietary his Governor or
Government

p. 873

An Act for Settlement of An Annual Revenue upon her Majestys
Governor within this Province for the time being.
Whereas by An Act of Assembly formerly made Intituled An
Act for providing A Support for the Lord Proprietary of this Prov-
ince And likewise A supply for defraying the publick charge of the
Government it was by the said Act published and declared that from
and after the first day of September then next ensuing there should
be raised levied Collected and paid to the said Lord Proprietary the
sum of two Shillings Sterling for every Hogshead or Quantity of a
Hogshead of Tobacco which should be at any time thereafter
shipped in any Ship or Vessel to be exported out of this province
on condition that his said Lordship should receive his Rents and
fines for alienation of Lands in good Sound Merchantable To-
bacco when tendered at the rate of two pence p Pound for one
moiety of the said Imposition, the other moiety by the said Act raised
to be employed towards maintaining a constant Magazine and

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