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U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735
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of an hogshead of Tobacco whether in hogshead or Other Package
which hereafter shall be shipped in any Ship or Vessel to be exported
out of this Province or any of the Territories Islands Ports Rivers
Creeks or places thereunto belonging
And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that for the
greater Ease and better Security in the Payment of the Duty or
Impost aforesaid that the said Duty and Imposition shall be from
time to time paid and satisfied by the Master or Masters of every
such Ship or Vessel respectively in which any such Tobacco shall
be exported upon his or their Clearing or taking out his or their
Dispatch or Dispatches for every such respective Ship or Vessel
and before the Departure of such Ship or Vessel coming into this
Province and that such Master or Masters shall at their first Arrival
here and before their loading on board any Goods or Commodities
of the Growth Production or Manufacture of this Province give
good and sufficient Security to his Excellency the Governor for the
time being or to the Officer thereunto especially appointed for the
Payment of the said Duty or Imposition accordingly
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that every
Master of any Ship or Vessel as aforesaid at the time of his Clear-
ing shall upon Oath declare before such Naval Officer or Officers
(which Oath the same Officer or Officers are hereby impowered to
administer) what Number of hogsheads or other Packages of
Tobacco he hath on board his Ship or Vessel in Order to be ex-
ported as aforesaid with their respective Marks and Numbers, and
if it shall happen that in any such other Package as aforesaid there
shall be contained any Quantity of Tobacco under Eight Hundred
that in Every such Case the same Master shall pay the aforesaid
Duty therefore at the Rate of three half Pence like Money for Every
hundred Weight and so in proportion for a greater or lesser Quan-
tity, And in Case the said Master shall refuse the said Oath, or upon
Suspicion of having Goods on board for which he has not cleared
it shall be lawful for the said Naval Officer to enter on board any such
Ship or Vessel and the same to search for any such Goods as afore-
said any thing in this Act before mentioned notwithstanding
Provided always and it is the true Intent and Meaning hereof
that this Act nor anything herein contained shall be adjudged con-
strued reputed or taken (anything herein before contained to the
contrary notwithstanding) to entitle his said Lordship his Heirs
or Assigns or his or their Governor or Governors for the time being
to the Benefit Advantage or Right to the aforesaid One shill p
hogshead granted to her most Sacred Majesty Queen Ann her Heirs
and Successors for the Support of her Government for the time being
Entituled An Act for Settlement of an Annual Revenue upon her
Majestys Governor within this Province for the time being made
Anno Domini seventeen hundred and four nor to discharge his
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