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as aforesaid shall Yearly and every year during the Continuance of
this Act with all Convenient speed transmit such money or bill or
Bills of Exchange by them to be received from the several and
respective Naval Officers aforesaid unto M^r Samuel Hyde Merchant
in London who is hereby Authorized and Impowered to receive &
Collect the money in such Bill or Bills mentioned and that such
Money when so by him received shall remain in his hands and be
as a fund for the Purposes aforesaid and paid by him to such
Person or Persons as the Trustees so to be appointed as aforesaid
or the Survivor' or Survivors of them shall by Writing under their

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hands Order and direct the same and not otherwise And be it
further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid
that such Person or Persons as shall from time to time be appointed
as aforesaid to receive the Money arising by this Act from the
Naval Officers aforesaid shall be and are hereby obliged to render
and lay an Account thereof before the House of Delegates of this
province when and so often as the same shall be by them required
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the money
arising by the duty aforesaid shall be applied towards the Payment
of An Agent to be employed for this province to reside at London
in Great Britain and to such other uses and purposes as shall from
time to time be thought necessary by the Trustees aforesaid or the
Survivors of them and not otherwise this Act to Continue until the
twenty ninth day of September which shall be in the year of our
Lord God One Thousand seven hundred and forty two and the
following Indorsements thereon viz. (See pages 254 and 255.)

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And the following message (See page 255.)
The following address to his Excellency viz.

To his Excellency Samuel Ogle Esq^r Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the province of Maryland.

The humble Address of the House of Delegates.
May it please your Excellency.
We his Majestys liege Subjects the Delegates of the Freemen of
the Province of Maryland in General Assembly convened being
divested of all partial or self interested Views and prompted only
by our Zeal for the publick Good, according to the duty of our
Station have maturely considered the several particulars hereafter
mentioned, concerning which we have received the loud Com-
plaints of those we represent, and encouraged by your Excellencys
kind Declaration at the opening of this Session that no man is
come to this Assembly more sincerely desirous of the Welfare of
the province than yourself or more willing to give a helping hand
to the removal of every Obstacle to its Happiness and Prosperity
beg leave to lay them before you as Grievances under which we and
our constituents labour and whereof the evil consequences daily grow

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