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MSS.
Calvert
Papers
No. 584
Md.Hist.Soc.

& not immediately to his Lordsp^s No further Notice was then taken
of it. But about the begining of May 1757. M.^r Stuart Addressed &
Left a Written Memorial with his Lordship Stating.

May 1757. Mem.^ll of M.^r Stuart ag.^st the Act.
That in 1754. the Assembly of Maryland Passed a Law Imposing
a Duty of 20.^s p Head on all Servants Imported there; Under the
Authority of which Law the Naval Officers there had Enacted &
Received of the Memorialist's Agents the sum of 20." p Head for
Convicts Transported to that Place in Obedience to the Memorialist's
Contracts with his Maty & his Courts of Justice in this Kingdom.

Also Stating y.^e 2. foil. Acts of Parliam.^t made in the late King's
Reign Viz^t

Act 4.^th Geo : 1. C.11. This Statute for y.^e more Effectual
Transportation of Felons,

"After Reciting that it had been found by Experience that y.^e
" Punishm.^ts Inflicted by the Laws ag.^ct the Offences therein Enumer-
" ated had not Proved Effectual to Deter Persons from being Guilty
"of those Crimes; and that many Persons to whom Royal Mercy
" had been Extended, upon Condition of Transporting themselves
" to the West Indies, had often Neglected to perform that Condition;
" And that in many of his Majestys Colonies and Plantations in
" America, there was great Want of Servants, who by their Labour
" & Industry might be the Means of Improving & making y.^e s.^d
" Colonies & Plantations more Usefull to this Nation.

ditto

" Enacts That Where any Person Shall be Convicted of the Fel-
" onies therein Specified, it should be Law full for the Court, before
" whom they were Convicted, To Order such Offenders to be sent
" to some of His Majestys Colonies & Plantations in America for
" the Several Terms of 7. Years, 4. Years, or for Life (According
" to their Respive Crimes) and to Convey Transfer & make Over
" such Offenders to the Use of any Person who Shall Contract for
" the Performance of such Transportation, & to his Assigns for
" such Terms.

" It also Enacts That such Contracts Shall previous to the
" Delivery of such Offenders to him to be Transported give Sufficient
" Security to the Satisfaction of Such Court, Effectually to Trans-
" port such Offenders to some of his Matys Colonies & Plantations
" in America, as shall be Ordered by y.^e s.^d Court & procure an
" Authentic Certate from the Governor or Chief Custome House
" Officer of y.^e Place (w.^ch Certificate they are thereby Required to
" give forthwith, without Fee or Reward as soon as Conveniently
" may be) of the Landing of such Offenders so Transferred, as
" afores.^d, in that place whereto they Shall be Ordered, (Death &
" Casualties of the Sea Excepted) & that none of the s.^d Offenders