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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… suggests either that a levy be raised by poll or a duty laid upon liquors, with the necessary limitations for … last Assembly, to see how much of the fourpence per gallon duty remains unaccounted for. Allowances for the officers of … to make up their accounts of the fourpence per gallon duty. Report of the Conference as to the question of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Thomas Meech being considered a suitable person for the duty, orders were given for the preparation of his commission … accordingly. Order for a bill to impose an additional duty of threepence per hogshead, and a further export duty of threepence per hogshead. Bill ordered for exchange of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… I wish you could raise forty or fifty men to do no other duty but to scour the woods daily. If such a thing could be, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… judge and grant no letters of administration and fulfil no duty as Lieutenant-Governor without consent of the Council, … they would put aside all differences, lay an additional duty of ten shillings on negroes and continue the additional duty of threepence a hogshead, which would enable them not …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of Customs and prosecute such as obstruct them in their duty. 12. You will take care that in any actions begun upon … to appoint a Committee of Accounts, to revive the Excise-duty for two months (read twice), and concerning the powder-duty. Petition of the owners of two hired ships further …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Bills to disable judges from pleading, for repealing the duty on shipping and to revive the duty on excise, read a third time and passed. On the Act in … read thrice and passed. Bill concerning the powder-duty read once and referred to a Committee. The Assembly's …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… has been by naval officers, who took upon them that duty in virtue of their office and drew bills for payment …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… and that it was hard to be so treated for doing my duty. He then ordered the constables not to serve any more of … merchants was agreed to, to the effect that the Maryland duty of 10 per cent. on the re-export of European commodities …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… in the Admiralty passes according to the Treaty with Algiers. Signed, Ja. Vernon. p. Endorsed, Recd. Read 17 May, … guilt) has made the Council forget their oaths and their duty to the King. None of them have yet applied to inform me … of the seizure above mentioned that the discharge of my duty has given them an unaccustomed disturbance. However, I …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Brooke, is extremely backward in the discharge of his duty. I know this from my own observations and from … and has given 5,000 security for due discharge of his duty. I have refused to allow proclamations for opening the … goods are to pass up the river at New York without paying duty there, since the King has rejected the petition of East …