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An Act for further continuing an Act entitled An Act to prevent
the Exportation or Carrying out of this Province Ammunition,
Warlike Stores or Provisions of any Kind towards Supplying the
French or their Allies.
And Wheras, at a Session of Assembly Begun & held at the
Town of Baltimore in Baltimore County on Fryday the Eight
Day of April in the Sixth Year of My Dominion 1757 Several Acts
of the Province of Maryland were Passed by you Viz.t
An Act for his Majesty's Service & the more immediate defence
& Protection of the ffrontier Inhabitants of this Province
Together with Sixteen other Acts Publick & private, all which
Acts at the afforesaid Sessions of Assembly as entered in the
Journals of the Upper House & were passed by you into Laws
in the Usual Form.
On Consideration of the Afforesaid several Acts transmitted by
you. I do hereby Signifye to you my Assent & Will that each of the
said Acts of Our Assembly be Laws of the Province of Maryland &
you are to enter this my Assent, upon Record as Usual.
Concerning the Petition Presented to you By John Tayloe Esq.r &
Presley Thornton & Benj.a Grymes Gent.t of the Colony of Virginia,
ab.t Virginea Iron Ore Vessels : On Consideration on the matter of
the said Petition, It is my Will & Pleasure that you do reject the
said Petition. It beeing Manifest against the Property & Interest
of the Province of Maryland to Suffer Virginian Ships or any
Vessels of Other Countries to Clear & not to pay the Tunnage Duty
Subject by Law Especially for Unmanufactured Effects of the Prov-
ince the Virginians want to take out & Manufacture to its prejudice.
And Whereas the Naval officers of the The Province have taken
a Liberty of their own, for I know of no authority that warrants
their own Regulation for Payments of the Tunnage Duty on Vessels
that shall Trade to the Province. I am inform'd, in relation to the
Virginia Ore Vessels (tho' they never Call'd at any Office) that
these Payments are by agreement as the Officers aledge, at a Certain
Sum p.r Ann; without regard to the Trips or Tunnage; thus by
Illicitous agreement they wrong my rights, the Naval Office ffees
& the Real Interest of all concern'd in the Iron Mines & Manu-
facture of Iron in the Province, therefore I desire & require of you
on Receipt of these My Instructions to take the Matter thereof into
Consideration, with M.r Boardley the Atty.y Gen.l & Naval Officers
at the Port of Annapolis & M.r Lloyd My Receiver Gener.l, with
such others as you shall Judge fitting in Aid of Advice to Determine.
Whether the Tunnage on Virginia Vessels is most Sutable by the
Bulk & Measurment of such Vessels or by the Tunnage of Loading ?
in either Case by you Determin'd for in one or the other I insist ;
& upon Such Determination, You Do immediatly Issue out Orders
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