Appendix. 649

Whereas an Act, Intitled, an act for the Assessment & Payment
of the Publick Charge of this Province Passed the 22 day of June
1741 hath been transmitted to us.
By w^ch said act the sum of Eleven Thousand five Hundred & Ten
pounds nine Shill & four pence Current money of the said Province
is directed to be Assessed on & Levyed from the several Taxable
Inhabitants of the said Province by an Equal Levy or Assessment
this Year & to be paid to the severall Publick Creditors on or before
the first day of Aug^t w^ch shall be in the year One Thousand Seven
Hundred & forty two.
We takeing the said act into our Serious Consideration & Having
a most Tender Regard to the Prosperity & Ease of the Inhabitants
of our said Province who would be very Sensibly Affected and Ag-
grieved by the Payment in one Year of the Af^d unusuall & Extra-
ordinary large sum of Eleven Thousand five Hundred & Ten pounds
nine shill & four pence Over & Besides the Ordinary sumes An-
nually Assessed on and Levyed from Them.

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Paper 295^

From this Motive & that so Heavy a Load when hereafter dis-
charged may be the better borne by the said Inhabitants by Appor-
tioning the Payment thereof in several Years.
We have thought fit & Judged it necessary to Disaprove Dissent
to & Annull & said Act & declare the same Accordingly Void & of
no Affect and we do hereby disapprove Annull & dissent to the said
act & of this our will & Pleasure we Command Proclamation to be
forthwith made & Published That all Persons Concerned may take
due notice thereof and act accordingly. C: B.
Given at London the 23 day of Decem^r 1741 under our hand Seal
By his Lordship Order J. B. Sect^ry

Tho: Bladen Comⁿ sind Aprill 24^th 1742.

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To Our Trusty & well Beloved Thomas Bladen Esq^r our Lieuten^t
Governor
Baltimore
I^st Whereas the Act made in the Year 1704 which Provides a
Support for the Government, As also another act w^ch Grants a duty
on the Tonnage of Shipping, Commonly Call'd the fourteen pence
p Ton, Have been by the late Assembly Considered as Matters of
Complaint, you are hereby directed & Injoyned to take all Imagin-
able Caution That nothing be done, to weaken or Lesson the right
& authority I now have or Injoy in or Concerning any of those
points; But if the Assembly should think fit to pass another Per-
petuall Bill of the same Import & Affect as that of 1704, You are
hereby permitted to give y^r Consent thereto or to any Other
Meashure w^ch may in any Manner Confirm the s^d Act 1704
2^d You are to take Care that no Incroachment be made on my
Power & Authority of regulating & Ascertaining the Severall Offi-

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