The Upper House. 437

Owners at the Time or Times of clearing such Ship or Vessel respec-
tively any thing in this Act or any other Act Law Usage or Custom
to the Contrary notwithstanding Provided also that from and after
this present Session of Assembly in Case of Shipwreck or other Loss
of any Ship or Vessel Ships or Vessels so that the Tobacco therein
so loaden and paid for be lost before the Delivery of Each Ship or
Vessel at the intended Port then the Master Merchant or Owner of
such Tobacco so loaden and lost and who shall have paid the Duty
and Impost aforesaid shall have Liberty to ship at some other time
so many hogsheads of Tobacco as they had formerly paid Impost
Money for as aforesaid free and clear of the said Duty and Impo-
sition

U. H. J.
Calvert
Paper
No. 735

And Be it further Enacted by and with the Authority Advice &
Consent aforesaid that the said several and respective Naval Officers
within this Province shall and may retain out of the money arising
by the Duty and Impost aforesaid for their Care and Trouble in
receiving the same and payment thereof to the respective Treasurer
or Treasurers of this Province a Commission of Two Pounds ten
Shillings p Cent for what shall be so received and paid by them as
aforesaid and that the said Treasurer or Treasurers shall and May
retain in his or their Hands respectively for their Care and Trouble
in receiving the same from the said Naval Officers and paying the
same as before directed a Commission' of Two Pounds ten shillings
p Cent on all such Money arising by the Duty and Impost aforesaid
as shall to them be respectively paid and which they shall pay and
disburse to and for the Uses herein before directed
And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that this
Act shall be and remain in full force and Virtue from the End of this
Session of Assembly until the twenty ninth Day of September which
shall be in the Year of Our Lord God One thousand seven hundred
and forty three and no longer

An Act for raising Three Pence p hogshead on all Tobacco to be
exported within the time therein mentioned for purchasing Arms
and Ammunition for the Defence of this Province

Whereas His Majesty Our most Gracious Sovereign is now en-
gaged in a War with Spain and that there are some Grounds to
apprehend the Crown of France will join in the same War against
him, who having large Possessions on this Continent adjoyning to
some of those of Great Britain may in such Case verv probably at-
tempt an Invasion on some of his Majestys Colonies here And lest
the Magazines of Arms and Ammunition now in this Province and
the money heretofore and now raised by any Ways or Means what-
soever for the Defence of this Government and the purchasing Arms
and Ammunition should prove insufficient for that Purpose at this

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