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L.H.J.
Liber No. 48
October s
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ing into this Province, shall at their first Arrival here, and before
their loading on board any Goods or Commodities of the Growth,
Production, or Manufacture of this Province, give good and suffi-
cient Security to his Excellency, or to the Officer thereunto especially
appointed, for the Payment of the said Duty or Imposition
accordingly.
Provided always, and it is the true Intent and Meaning hereof,
That this Act, nor any Thing herein contained, shall be adjudged,
construed, reputed, or taken (any Thing herein expressed to the
contrary notwithstanding), to disannul or make void his Lordship's
Right to the other Moiety of the said Two Shillings per Hogshead,
to be paid in Consideration of his Rents and Alienation Money in
Tobacco at Two Pence per Pound, during the Term of his natural
Life (but that the same be kept and hereby preserved to his Lordship
in as full and ample Manner as by the said Law is expressed or
intended), or in the least to discharge his Lordship of receiving the
Rents aforesaid at Two Pence per Pound, as by the said Act is
enjoin'd, during also the Term of his natural Life; nor to discharge
his Lordship from accounting for the Arrears of the One Shilling
per Hogshead, for supporting the Government and providing Arms
and Ammunition, but that he be obliged to all the aforesaid Matters
and Things as fully and strongly as if the said Law were in full
Force.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every
Master of a Ship or Vessel as aforesaid, at the Time of his Clearing,
shall upon Oath declare the Quality and Quantity of his Loading;
and that the Naval Officer, by the Governor aforesaid appointed for
the Time being, shall, and is hereby impowered to administer the said
Oath; and in case the said Master shall refuse the said Oath, or upon
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p. 357
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Suspicion of having Goods on board for which he hath not cleared,
it shall be lawful for the said Naval-Officer to enter on board any
such Ship or Vessel, and the same to search for any such Goods as
aforesaid; any Thing in this Act beforementioned notwithstanding.
Whereupon it was Resolved, That the Raising and Levying the
Sum of 12 d. Sterling per Hogshead on all Tobacco Exported, &c.
by the Lord Proprietary of this Province, is Arbitrary and Illegal.
Resolved also, That if the Lord Baltimore cou'd, with any Pro-
priety, be deemed the Heir or Successor to the Crown, yet, that the
Sum of three pence Part of the 12 d. now raised and collected under
Colour of the abovementioned Act, should, according to the plain
and natural Construction thereof, confirmed by her late Majesty
Queen Anns Instructions for that Purpose, be applied towards main-
taining a Magazine for the Defence of this Province.
The House nevertheless Reserving and Asserting the Rights of
their Constituents, his Majesty's Subjects, the Freemen of this
Province, and Protesting against the above violent and oppressive
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