436 Assembly Proceedings, April 23-June 5, 1740.

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735

September yearly and every year during the Continuance of this
Act, and that at whatsoever Time or Time then after it shall please
his Lordships Governor and Council for the time being to certify to
such Agents respectively by an Order signed by the Clerk of the
Council for the time being what Arms or Ammunition or other
Warlike Stores may be most requisite for the Service and Defence
of this Province to be sent for to Great Britain over & above those
already purchased, or to be purchased with the Money heretofore
levied for that Purpose it shall and may be lawful for the said
Treasurer or Treasurers respectively and they are hereby obliged to
send for such Arms Ammunition or Warlike Stores to Great Britain
as to them or either of them shall be so certified in Proportion to
the Ballance or Ballances in their or either of their Hands respec-
tively and shall procure or cause the same to be imported into the
Province, and when so imported to be lodged in the Armory or
Magazine of this Province under the Care and Custody of the Person
or Persons who is are or shall be appointed for the keeping and tak-
ing Care of the same, and likewise take his or their Receipt for the
same and that such Armourer Armourers or Store keeper shall and
are hereby made accountable for all such Arms Ammunition or war-
like Stores so as aforesaid by him or them received into such Store
or Magazine and are hereby obliged to render an Account on Oath
yearly and every year of such Arms Ammunition to him or them
delivered and how and in what manner disposed of, to every General
Assembly which shall be in any Year or Years during the Continu-
ance of this Act And Be it further Enacted that the said Treasurer
or Treasurers shall at the next Session of Assembly yearly and every
Year lay their Accounts respectively before the same, how and in
what manner the Money arising by this Act hath been laid out and
expended to the Uses and Purposes aforesaid and likewise a particu-
lar Account of such Arms Ammunition and Warlike Stores as shall
or may be purchased by any Ballance or Ballances of the same Pro-
vided always and it is hereby enacted & declared by the Authority

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aforesaid for the Encouragement of Maryland Owners that every
Ship or Vessel wholly and solely belonging to the Inhabitants of
this Province shall have the Privilege of being free from paying
the said Duty or Impost of One Shilling p hogshead for any To-
bacco exported in any such Ship or Vessel out of this Province or
the Territories Islands Rivers -Creeks or Ports thereunto belonging
and the said several and respective Naval Officers are hereby obliged
and directed to clear such Ship or Vessel upon the Oath or Oaths of
any One or more of the Owners that such Ship or Vessel is wholly
and solely belonging to Inhabitants of this Province and that no
other Person or Persons directly or indirectly hath any Part or
Share in such Vessel, and which Oath the said several and respective
Naval Officers are hereby impowered to administer to such Owner or