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INSTRUCTIONS OF LORD BALTIMORE TO
GOVERNOR SHARPE, 1757

INSTRUCTIONS OF FREDERICK, LORD BALTIMORE, DATED
OCTOBER 23, 1757, TO GOVERNOR HORATIO SHARPE, AS-
SENTING TO THE LAWS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY AT THE

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1756, AND AT THE APRIL-MAY,
1757 SESSIONS; REJECTING THE PETITION OF CERTAIN VIR-
GINIANS THAT THE VESSELS OF THAT COLONY CARRYING
IRON ORE BE EXEMPTED FROM MARYLAND TONNAGE DUTIES,
AND BE ALLOWED INSTEAD TO PAY AN ANNUAL CHARGE
WITHOUT RELATION TO TONNAGE; AND ORDERING THAT
REGULATIONS BE DRAWN UP BY WHICH THE TONNAGE OF
VESSELS THEREAFTER SHALL BE BETTER DETERMINED.

Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietor of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon in America Lord Baron of Baltimore of the
Kingdom of Ireland Orders and Instructions to be Observed and
Pursued, by our Trusty and Wellbeloved Horatio Sharpe Esq.^r
Our Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our Province of
Maryland
F. Baltimore

Whereas at a Session of Assembly begun & held at the City of
Annapolis on Tuesday the Fourteenth Day of September in the Six
Year of My Dominion 1756 several Acts of the Province of Mary-
land were made & Pass'd by You Viz.^t

An Act for his Majesty's Service, and further Defence and
Security of this Province.

An Act impowering the Justices of Somerset County to levy not
exceeding Twenty Thousand Pounds of Tobacco upon the taxable
Inhabitants of the said County, to be applied to the Purpose
therein Directed.

An Act for the Relief of Sundry of the Inhabitants of Charles
County.

A Supplementary to the Act entituled An Act for the Speedy and
effectual Publication of the Laws of this Province and for the
Encouragement of Jonas Green of the City of Annapolis Printer.
A Supplementary to An Act entitled An Act for granting a Supply
of Forty Thousand Pounds for his Majesty's Service and Striking
Thirty Four Thousand and Fifteen Pounds Six Shillings thereof
in Bills of Credit, and raising a Fund for Sinking the Same.

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