32 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 22-Mar. 26, 1755.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
March 17

Monday Morning 17 March 1755.
This house met again according to Adjournment

Present

Col Edward Lloyd
Benjamin Tasker Esq.
Benedict Calvert Esq.^r
The Honourable | Col George Plater
William Goldsborough
Col Charles Hammond Esq^r

Read the Second Time the Bill Entituled an Act to prevent the
People of this Province from Supplying the French or their Indian
Allies with Ammunition Warlike Stores or Provisions of any kind
and will pass with the following Amendm.^t in the 1^st & 2^d Line
of the 1.^st page leave out the words, more avaritious & varacious after
unjust gain than affectionate to the Interest of their Country in
Supplying, and insert the words, do Supply, in the 3^d Line leave
out the words, out of this Province, and After the words, the Same,
in the 8th Line to the word, appointed, in the 18^th Line of the
Same Page to be left out and the following inserted, That from
and after the End of this Session of Assembly for and during the
Continuance of this Act it shall not be Lawful for any Person or
Persons whatsoever within this Province to Export in any Ship or
Vessel out of this Province any ammunition Warlike Stores or Pro-
visions of any kind or Denomination whatsoever except for the
Necessary Use of Such Ship or Vessel without first entering into
Bond to the Naval Officer of the Port where he or they shall Clear
out such Ship or Vessel with good and Sufficient Security unto the
Right honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province in the Sum
of five hundred pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain with Con-
dition to the Same annexed that he or they shall and will Land and
deliver and unload the said Ammunition Warlike Stores and Pro-
visions at some Port or Place within his Majestys Dominions and
produce a Certificate thereof to the Naval Officer taking such Bond
within Twelve Months after such Exportation which said Naval
Officer is hereby Authorized and required to take before he Clears
out the said Ship or Vessel from the Chief Officer of the Customs
of such Port or if it shall be at a Port where there is no officer of
the Customs, these from the Chief Magistrate that all such ammuni-
tion Warlike Stores & Provisions have been Landed accordingly and
in Case any Person or Persons shall presume Contrary to the Tenor

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of this Act to Carry or Transport or Cause to be Carried and Trans-
ported in any Ship or Vessel out of this Province any such Ammuni-
tion Warlike Stores or Provisions of any kind or Denomination
whatsoever without giving such Bond as by this Act is required
such Person or Persons shall forfeit the full Value of such Ammu-
nition Warlike Stores & Provisions of what Denomination soever