340 Assembly Proceedings, June 17-July 8, 1746.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46

where they have arisen or shall arise, Indorsed By the Upper House
of Assembly July 1, 1746. Read the second Time, and will not pass
Signed p Order J. Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

p. 602

George Plater Esq^r from the Upper House, delivers M^r Speaker
the Bill entituled An Act for raising Four Pence Sterling per Hogs-
head on all Tobacco to be exported for purchasing arms and Ammu-
nition and for immediate Supply of arms for the Defence of this
Province, Indorsed ( See page 296. )
Which Amendments being read, Resolved that this House will not
Agree thereto and ordered, that the said Bill be entered on the
Journal, And it is as follows. An Act for raising Four pence
sterling per Hogshead on all Tobacco to be exported for purchasing
Arms and Ammunition: And for an immediate supply of Arms for
the Defence of this Province. Whereas in these Times of real danger
it is highly prudent to provide for the common safety and Defence
of the Province by making the best Provision we are able for a suit-
able supply of Arms and Ammunition; and for that it is the more
necessary at present as the General Assembly now sitting, in order to
forward the Execution of his Majesty's Royal Intention in the Re-
duction of Canada, have chearfully Enacted that a part of those
Arms already provided should be distributed among such of his
Majesty's Forces as may be raised within this Province — such Arms
not being otherways to be procured or purchased within the same.
We his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Delegates of
the Freemen of Maryland in Assembly convened therefore humbly
pray that it may be enacted.
And be it Enacted by the Right Honble the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor and the
Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the
same That there shall be levied collected and raised A Duty or Impost
of Four pence Sterling money on every Hogshead of Tobacco which
now is and hereafter shall be laden on Board any Ship or Vessel to
be exported out of this Province and not cleared at some Naval office
before the End of this present Session of Assembly to be collected
and received by the respective Naval officers in the same manner as
other Duties on all Tobacco now due and payable are collected and
raised which said Duty shall from Time to Time by the Naval offi-
cers aforesaid be paid to the Honourable Col. Edward Sprigg.
And be it further enacted by the Authority advice and Consent
aforesaid that the same Col. Edward Sprigg shall with the Money
which he shall so receive by Virtue of this Act send for and pur-
chase for the use and Defence of this province such Arms and Am-
munition and other warlike Stores as his Excellency his Lordship's
present Governor with the advice of his Lordship's Council of State
or his Lordship's Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time
being with the advice aforesaid shall direct and Appoint