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Lib. M.
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and declared, that from and after the first Day of September
then next ensuing, there should be raised, levied collected and
paid, to the said Lord Proprietary, the Sum of Two Shillings
Sterling, for Every hogshead, or Quantity of a hogshead of
Tobacco, which should be at any time thereafter shipped in
any Ship or Vessel, to be exported out of this Province; on
Condition, that his said Lordship should receive his Rents
and Fines for Alienation of Lands, in good sound merchant-
able Tobacco, when tendered, at the Rate of Two Pence p
pound, for One Moiety of the said Imposition; the Other
Moiety by the said Act raised to be employed towards main-
taining a constant Magazine, and defraying other publick and
necessary Charges of the Government
And whereas former Assemblies, upon strict Enquiry made
into the Premises, did find his said Lordship had not only been
very deficient, and at small Charges and Expences in main-
taining, as aforesaid; but that this Province hath been obliged
to defray all Publick Charges arising, for the Support of
Government, by way of an Equal Assesment upon the Inhabi-
tants thereof; the several Provisoes in the afore recited Act,
to the Contrary notwithstanding. And whereas also, his said
Lordship the aforesaid Moiety of Two Shillings per Hogshead,
under Pretext 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 Publick; and being incapacitated
of complying with what, by the said Act for the said Moiety of
Two Shillings per Hogshead, is required.
Be it therefore Enacted by the Queens most excellent
Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of Her Majestys
Governor, Council and Assembly of this Province, and the
Authority of the same, that the said One Shilling per Hogs-
head, 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 and over 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 here-
after shall be at any Time shipped, in any Ship or Vessel, to
be exported out of this Province, or any the Territories, Islands,
Ports, Rivers, Creeks, or Places thereunto belonging, as afore-
said
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