The Upper House. 433

Wednesday Morning 7^th May 1740

This House met again according to Adjournment Present as
yesterday
The two aforegoing Bills being ordered to be entered at large in
the Journals of this House are as follow

An Act for raising an Annual Revenue for the better Support of
the Station and Dignity of his Lordship's Governor for the time
being and for the Safety and better Defence of this Province

Whereas it clearly appears to this General Assembly that the Act
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the Town and
Port of Annapolis in Ann Arundel County the fifth Day of Sep-
tember in the third Year of the Reign of Our late Sovereign Lady
Queen Ann of pious Memory in the Year of Our Lord One Thou-
sand Seven hundred and four Entituled An Act for Settlement of an
Annual Revenue upon her Majestys Governor within this Province
for the Time being was not meant intended or designed for the Use
Profit or Advantage of the Right honourable the Lord Proprietor
or his Governor, nor that the Words Sense or Meaning of the said
Act will bear any such Explanation Construction or Interpretation,
although his Lordship has been pleased since the Expiration of the
Act Entituled an Act for laying an Imposition on Tobacco by the
hogshead for Support of Government, and for Payment of his Lord-
ships Quit Rents and Alienation fines for the time therein mentioned
made and passed at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City
of Annapolis the Eleventh Day of July in the Year of Our Lord

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
May 7

God Seventeen hundred and thirty Two to levy the said Impost or
Duty of Twelve Pence Sterling p hogshead to his own Use on all
Tobacco exported out of this Province since that time under Colour
of the said Act made in September Seventeen hundred and four
before mentioned And this general Assembly being willing and
desirous to avoid all Causes of Contention and Disputes with his
Lordship the Lord Proprietary and that a good and lasting Friend-
ship & Union may be cultivated between his Lordship and the Good
People of Maryland and to support in an honourable Manner his
Lordships Governor for the time being in and over this Province
and for the better Security and Defence of the same humbly pray
that it may be enacted And Be it enacted by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his
Lordships Governor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assem-
bly and the Authority of the same that One shilling Sterling p hogs-
head for defraying the Charges of Government in manner and form
as herein after set forth shall be raised levyed and paid unto the
several & respective Naval Officers within this Province by the Ship-
per or Shippers of such Tobacco for every hogshead and Quantity
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