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 of entry. Here all the articles to be sent out were to be carefully scrutinized, and an account of them kept in detail. A yearly statement was to be transmitted to the Lord Treasurer in England of the various commodities that had been actually exported. The officer appointed to supervise the cargoes and keep a record of them, was to receive as his remuneration two pence upon each cask of tobacco put on shipboard. This charge was only indirectly a duty.

These instructions were, in February, 1637, embodied by the General Assembly into a law, and Kemp was chosen Register;