164 Assembly Proceedings, November i-December 6, 1766.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 52
Nov. 15

And your Committee have the Satisfaction of seeing their Senti-
ments on the Subject strongly confirmed by the Proceedings of the
several Branches of the Legislature in the Year 1715 and 1716, all
agreeing in the Application of Fines, Forfeitures, and Amerciaments,
to public Uses, as may appear by Extracts taken from our own
Journals, and annext to this Report. And your Committee do find
by the Estimates laid before them, in Consequence of an Address
to his Excellency the Governor, that the Twelve pence per Hogs-
head Duty on Tobacco, for seven Years, from the 29.^th Day of
September, seventeen hundred and fifty nine, to the 29.^th Day of
September, seventeen hundred and sixty five, both inclusive, amounts
in the whole, to the Sum of Nine thousand two hundred and sixty
three Pounds one Shilling and four Pence half Penny Sterling; and
that the Fines and Forfeitures, received from Michaelmas seventeen
hundred and fifty three to Michaelmas seventeen hundred and sixty
three, both inclusive, amount in the whole, to the Sum of forty
two Pounds twelve Shillings and Eleven Pence Sterling; and fifteen
hundred and Eighty six Pounds Seven Shillings and seven Pence
Current Money; and that the Provincial Amerciaments, from the
Year seventeen hundred and fifty nine, to the Year seventeen hun-
dred and sixty five, both inclusive, amount in the whole, to the
Sum of forty two thousand nine hundred Pounds of Tobacco.
Your Committee beg Leave to inform the Honourable House,
that, so far as they have prosecuted their Enquiry with Respect to
the Twelve Pence per Hogshead, claimed by the Lord Proprietary
of this Province, they are of Opinion, that the same has been taken,
and received from the People, without any just ffoundation, or
existing Law, to support it, tho', in Order to a fuller Investigation
of this Matter, and to afford the House the requisite Satisfaction
of the Grounds whereon they have formed their Opinion, a longer
Time and further Inspection of the ancient Laws, Records, and
Journals, are conceived to be absolutely necessary. Your Com-
mittee have therefore thought proper to bring in this separate Report,
chiefly relative to the ffines, fforfeitures, and Amerciaments, hoping
that the Length, Importance, and Difficulty of the Work, will excuse
them, at present, with Regard to the twelve Pence per Hogshead
All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Hon-
ourable House

Signed per Order, Henry Wilkins, Cl.

p. 448

Extracts from the Journal of the Lower House of Assembly

The following Message being prepared, is ordered to be entered,
Viz.^t
By the House of Delegates, May 5, 1715.
May it please your Excellency,
By an Act of Assembly of this Province entitled, An Act for
Amerciaments in the Provincial and County Courts, made the twenty