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On Motion, the Question was put, Whether there shall be Duty
raised of One Penny per Gallon, on Melasses, and One Shilling per
Hundred on Muscovado Sugar, imported into this Province, to be
applied for Repayment and Replacing the Sum of £5000 to be paid
by the Bill entituled, An Act for raising a Sum, for a further Supply
towards his Majesty's Service, out of the Loan Office: Resolved in
the Affirmative.
Ordered, That it be an Instruction to the Committee of Laws in
preparing a Clause, for an additional Fund, for Repayment and
Replacing the Sum of £5000 to be paid out of the Loan Office, as a
further Supply towards his Majesty's Service, That a Duty of One
Penny per Gallon be laid on all Melasses, and One Shilling per Hun-
dred on Muscovado Sugars, hereafter imported into this Province.
Ordered, That the Committee of Accounts do not receive any
Accounts this Session, for any Claim against the Public, after this
Day.
Ordered, That the Journal of Accounts be closed this Day.
Samuel Chamberlaine, Esq; from the Upper House, delivers to
Mr. Speaker, the Bill entituled, An Act to impower Anne Chambers,
Widow, to sell certain Lands, which Samuel Chambers, late of Anne-
Arundel County, died possessed of, in Fee Simple, for Payment of
his Debts; indorsed, "By the Upper House of Assembly, July 3,
1755. Read the second Time and will pass.
Signed per Order, J. Ross, Cl. up. ho."

L. H. J.

Liber No. 48
Julys

Which Bill was read here, and passed for ingrossing.
Col. Hammond, from the Upper House, delivers to Mr. Speaker,
the Bill entituled, An Act for purchasing Two Acres of Land in the
Upper Part of Worcester Parish, in Worcester County, and building
a Chapel of Ease thereon; indorsed, By the Upper House of Assem-
bly, July 2, 1755. Read the second Time and will pass.
Signed p Order, J. Ross, Cl. up. ho.

Which Bill was read here, and passed for ingrossing.
The following Certificate was produced to the Clerk of this House,
viz.
I hereby certify, that on this third Day of July, 1755, personally
appeared before me the Subscriber, one of his Lordship's Justices
of the Peace for Anne-Arundel County, John Duckett, and took the
several Oaths, appointed by Act of Assembly of this Province, to
be taken to the Government, made, repeated, and subscribed, the
Oath of Abjuration and Test, and also the following Oath, to wit,
You John Duckett do swear, that as Clerk to the Committee of
Arms and Ammunition, you shall true Entries make of all such Mat-
ters and Things, as by that Committee for the Time being, shall be
to you directed; the Secrets of the said Committee you shall not
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