CHAP.
XLII.
One Shilling
Sterling per
Hogshead,
for all Tobaccoes
shipped
for Exportation,
to
be paid to the
Queen, her
Heirs and
Successors for
the Support
of Government.
To be paid
by the Master
of every Ship,
&c., before
Clearance and
Departure.
Such Masters,
at their first
Arrival, and
before taking
any Goods on
board, to give
Security for
Payment
thereof.
his Lordship's
Right
by a former
Law, or Obligation
to
account for
Arrears, &c.
to be no way
affected by
this Act.
Masters of
Ships, &c.
at the Time
of Clearing
out, shall
make Oath,
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of maintaining a Magazine as aforesaid (until the Time of their late
Majesties
King William and Queen Mary taking this Province under their
immediate
Protection) did convert to his own Use, to the Impoverishing of the Country,
and Defraud of the Public, and being incapacitated of complying with
what by the said Act for the said Moiety of Two Shillings per Hogshead
is
required.
* This Act of 1671, ch. 11, was
continued, 1674, ch. 1, for and during the natural Life of
the Right Honourable Charles Calvert, Esq; Son and Heir apparent
of the Right Honourable Cæcilius,
the Lord Baron of Baltimore, and again continued 1676, ch.
3, in the First Year of the
Dominion of the Right Honourable Charles Lord Baltimore,
for and during the Life of Honourable
Cæcilius Calvert, Esq; Son and Heir of the
said Right Honourable Charles, &c. in case
he survived his Lordship.
II. Be
it therefore Enacted, by the Queen's most excellent majesty,
by and
with the Advice and Consent of her Majesty's Governor, Council, and Assembly
of
this Province, and the Authority of the same, That the said One Shilling
per
Hogshead, for the defraying the Charges of Government aforesaid, as well
for such Ships or Vessels as have already Cleared before the making of
this
Act, as for such remaining in this Province, be raised, levied, collected
and
paid, unto our Sovereign Lady the Queen's most excellent majesty, her Heirs
and Successors, for the Support of her Government, for the Time being,
in
andover this her Majesty's Province aforesaid, and the Territories to the
same
belonging, for every Hogshead, and Quantity of an Hogshead of Tobacco,
which hath been, for and during the Time aforesaid, or which hereafter
shall
be, at any Time shipped in any Ship, of Vessel, to be exported out of this
Province, or any the Territories, Islands, Ports, Rivers, Creeks, or places
thereunto belonging, as aforesaid.
III. And be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the said Duty and Imposition shall
be, from
Time to Time, paid and satisfied by the Master or Masters of every such
Ship
or Vessel respectively, in which any such Tobacco shall be exported, upon
his
or their Clearing, and taking out his or their Dispatch or Dispatches,
for every
such respective Ship or Vessel, and before the Departure of such Ship or
Vessel, coming into this Province, shall at their first Arrival here, and
before
their loading on boars any Goods or Commodities of the Growth, Production,
or manufacture of this Province, give good and sufficient Security to
his Excellency, or to the Officer thereunto especially appointed, for the
Payment
of the said Duty or Imposition accordingly.
IV. 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 er 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 enjoined, 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.
V. 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 |
