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any Person importing or bringing into this Province any Servant or
Servants, is too extensive, and includes a Discovery of Offences
never intended by the said Act.
Be it Enacted and Declared, by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's
Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That all Masters of Vessels, and other Per-
sons whatsoever, bringing any Servant or Servants into this Prov-
ince, by Land or Water, shall only be obliged to declare to the Naval
Officer of the Port or District, into which such Servant or Servants
shall be imported or brought, upon Oath (or Affirmation if a
Quaker) to the best of their Knowledge, whether such Servant or
Servants be then under the Sentence of Transportation; and if so,
for what Offence, and the Term of Years they have to serve: Any
Thing in the said recited Act to the contrary thereof, in anywise,
notwithstanding.
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An Act impowering a Committee to lay, assess, and apportion the
Publick Levy for this present Year One Thousand Seven Hun-
dred and Twenty Nine.
Whereas this present General Assembly have, for the defraying
the Publick Charge of this Province, to the Eighth Day of August
Instant, raised a certain Sum of Tobacco and Money amounting to
Three Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand Four Hundred and
Fifty Two Pounds of Tobacco; and Three Hundred and Thirty
One Pounds, Nineteen Shillings and Six Pence Current Money, as
by the Journal of the Committee of Accounts appears: But by Rea-
son more Publick Charges may arise and grow due before the usual
and accustomed Time of Payment, which is the Tenth of November
yearly; at which Time, again to call and convene the whole Assem-
bly for that Occasion only, considering the great Number of them,
and the Remoteness of their Habitations from the Place appointed,
would be very chargeable and troublesome to the whole Province in
General :
Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Governour, and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the
same, That the Honourable Edward Henry Calvert, Esq; Col. Wil-
liam Holland, John Hall, Philemon Lloyd, and Benjamin Tasker,
Esqrs; Members of his Lordship's Honourable Upper House of
Assembly, and the Honourable Col. John Mackall, Mr. Philip Key,
James Harris, Esq; John Beale, Esq; Col. John Fendall, Mr. George
Dashiell, James Hollyday, Esq; Col. William Ennalls, Mr. William
Hamilton, Mr. Joshua George, Mr. Ralph Crabb, and Mr. William
Hemsley, of the Honourable Lower House of Assembly, or the
major Part of them, be and appear at the City of Annapolis, the
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p. 37
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