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Post-Meridiem.
The House met according to Adjournment, &c.
Philip Hammond, Esq; from the Committee appointed to enquire
into Ways and Means to raise Money for his Majesty's Service,
brings in and delivers to M.r Speaker the following Report, viz.
By the Committee appointed by the Honourable the House of
Delegates to enquire into Ways and Means to raise Money for his
Majesty's Service.
Your Committee having duly considered the Matter referred to
them, do humbly propose, That the Sum of £401 5...6 in signed Bills
in the Office, and never yet emitted, be put into immediate Circula-
tion: That a further Sum arising from Money received or to be
received for Principal of and Interest on Bonds paid or to be paid
into the said Office, be borrowed from thence, to the Amount of
£5984..14 And that the Sum of Thirty Thousand Pounds, to com-
pleat the Forty Thousand Pounds (voted for his Majesty's Service)
be raised by a new Emission of Bills or Notes of Credit, to pass
Current in all Payments, which Bills, so put into Circulation, Money
borrowed, and Bills or Notes of Credit emitted, be replaced, repaid,
and sunk, in Five Years, by the following Duties, Taxes, and
Impositions, to wit,
An Excise of 4 d. p Gallon on all Rum and Spirits im-
ported or brought into this Province, and on all Rum
distilled in this Province; Ditto of 2 d. p Gallon on | £5000 00 0
all retailed Spirits distilled in this Province from
Peaches, Cyder, Rye, Wheat, Barley, or any Grain
or Fruit of the Growth of this Province,..........
An Assessment of £3 p Annum on Billiard Tables..... 63 00 0
A Duty of 40 s. on each Horse, Mare, or Gelding,
brought into and sold in this Province, ........... 40 00 0
An additional Duty of 20 s. on Negroes imported or
brought into this Province, .................... 50 00 0
An Excise of 4 d. p Gallon on Madeira Wine im-
ported or brought into this Province, ............. 50 00 0
An Excise of 6 d. p Gallon on all other Wines im-
ported or brought into this Province, except from 100 00 0
Great-Britain, ...............................
Duty of I s. 6 d. p Barrel on all Pitch and Turpentine
imported or brought into this Province; Duty of
I s. p Barrel on all Tar imported or brought into
this Province, ...............................
A Tax of 12 d. p Hundred Acres on Lands, and so
pro Rate, .................................. 2000 00 0
Ditto of 12 d. p Hundred Acres, over and above the
aforesaid 12 d. on all Lands held by Papists, and 200 00 0
so pro Rate, .................................
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
March 11
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