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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
July 7
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reasonable that this Province, in proportion to their Circumstances,
should contribute, with the neighbouring Colonies, towards the
Expence thereof, and it being considered, that by early and season-
able Supplies, his Majesty's Service, and our own Security, will be
best promoted; this General Assembly therefore pray that it may be
enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor,
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and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of
the same, That the Commissioners or Trustees, for emitting Bills
of Credit, established by Act of Assembly, shall, and they are hereby
required, out of the Money which is now in the Paper Currency
Office, and any which shall next be paid in, to pay to his Excellency
Horatio Sharp, Esq; Governor and Commander in Chief of this
Province, or to the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time
being, or his Order, to the Amount of Five Thousand Founds, in
such Sums as his Excellency by Draft, or Drafts, under his Hand, for
his Majesty's Service, shall require; the several Payments whereof,
the said Commissioners shall keep in a fair distinct Account.
And for repaying and replacing the said Sum of Five Thousand
Pounds into the Paper Currency Office, Be it further Enacted, That
the several Clauses mentioned and contained in an Act of Assembly
entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, made at a Session of
Assembly, begun and held at the City of Annapolis, the seventeenth
Day of July, One thousand Seven hundred and fifty-four, relating
to the several Duties, Licence-Money, Fines, and Forfeitures, therein
mentioned, and the Recovery thereof, (except what is hereinafter
repealed), and also the several Parts of the Acts of Assembly in
the said Act mentioned to be continued, shall be, and are hereby
declared to continue and be in full Force, from and after the several
Purposes of the said Act, and the Acts therein mentioned, are fully
answered, compleated and fulfilled, until the aforesaid Sum of Five
Thousand Pounds shall be thereby, and by this Act, repaid and re-
placed in the said Office, and until the End of the next Session of
Assembly which shall thereafter happen.
And whereas a Duty of Two Pence per Gallon is laid upon all
Madeira Wine, by the said Act, and it appearing to this General
Assembly, that the Payment thereof is evaded, by entering the same
under different Denominations; It is therefore hereby Enacted, That
every Person, or Persons, bringing any other Wines whatsoever
into this Province, by Land or Water, other than immediately from
Great-Britain, either in Casks or Bottles, shall, for every Gallon of
such Wine, pay the Sum of Two Pence Current Money, in the same
Manner, and to the same Purposes, as is directed by the said recited
and this present Act, which shall be received, accounted for, and paid
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