An Act for the Continuance of
An Act Intituled An Act of Gratitude
for the Lievten^t Genall

Whereas the Burgesses of this present genall assembly
weighing & considering amongst themselves the great proba-
bility of the small Quantity of Tobacco which will through the
unseasonableness of the Summer past be made in this province
whereby the Inhabitants of this pvince will be very much
necessitated to discharge their former Obligacons and provide
for their future Subsistance & Defraying of their Publique
Leavyes for this present yeare whereby they will be much dis-
abled for the present to make any further Addicon vnto the said
Act of Gratitude as to an Augmentacon thereof w^ch they are
really willing & free to doe & grant would the Condiccon of the
Province att this tyme beare itt. wherefore they doe humbly
pray th^t the twenty five pounds of Tobacco p pole imposed by
the aforesaid Act on all Taxable psons within this province to
be pay'd vnto the p^rsent Lieuten^t genall Charles Calvert Esqr.
may be by him accepted And doe further pray th^t itt may be
enacted by the Lord Proprietary by & w^th the Assent of the vpp^r
& low^r howse of this present genall Assembly. That th^t Act
Intitled An Act of Gratitude for the Lieuten^t genall be & Re-
mayne in force to the propper vse & benefit of Charles Calvert
And to Endure for three yeares or to the end of the next genall
Assemblye.

The vpp^r howse haue Assented

John Gittings Clke
The low^r howse haue Assented
W^m Bretton clke.

An Act for Providing Irons
in each County for burning Malefacto^rs

Bee itt enacted by the R^t Honno^ble the Lord pprietary by &
w^th the consent of the vppf & Lowr howse of this p^rsent genall
Assembly th^t the Com^r of each County Coⁿ provide an Iron for
the burning of Malefacto^rs w^th the Lre R. & anoth^r w^th the Lre
H. & th^t vpon penaltye of ffiue hund^rd pounds of Tobacco to the