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warehouse Shipp boat or other Vessell and there in the pres-
ence of such Justice or other Officer afd who are hereby
required to be present aiding and Assisting to such Informer
therein to Seize and Mark with the broad Arrow Every such

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hogshead or hogsheads of Tob^o as such Informer shall request
such Justice or other Officer to View on Suspicion of Exceed,
ing the Gauge afd and also that such Justice or other Officer
shall on request of such Informer and is hereby required to
proceed in such Manner as he shall think most proper to Ex-
amine the gauge thereof soe as no hhd or hhds of Tob^o Stowed
away on board of any Ship or other Sea Vessell shall on such
Informations be Unstowed unless such hogshead or hogsheads
appear in View and if upon such Examination any hogshead
or hogsheads shall be found by such Justice or other Officer
afd to Exceed the gauge afd itt shall be Lawfull then and not
otherwise for such Justice or other Officer Imediately to Con-
demn the same to the Use of such Informer who shall there-
upon be Immediately Vested with the property thereof and
may Convert the same to his Own Use Accordingly and the
Judgmt of such Justice or other officer therein shall be finall
but in Case such hogshead or hogsheads be not found to Ex-
ceed the gauge afd then such Mark of Seizure shall be Struck
out by such Justice or other officer afd and the Seizure be
thereby releast but in Case any person or persons whatsoever
shall have sight of any hogshead or hhds. that he or they shall
Suspect to Exceed the gauge afd itt shall and may in such
Case be Lawfull for such person or persons Immediately to
Seize and mark the same as afd altho' no such Justice or other

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Officer as afd be present of which Seizure such Informer shall
forthwith give Information to some Justice or other Officer
afd Living or residing in the County where such hogshead or
hogsheads shall be soe marked who shall be by this Act
obliged to goe with such Informer to View and Examine the
gauge of such hogshead or hogsheads as afd and shall in all
things proceed to the Viewing Examination or Condemnation
of such hhd or hhds after the Manner and to the uses afd or to
the releasing the Seizure thereof as is herein before directed
and Every such Informer or Seizer shall pay to the Justice or
other Officer afd making such View or Condemnation afd the
sume of Ten Shillings Currt money for Every hhd that such
Justice or officer shall be requested soe to View or Examine
by such Informer whether the hhd or hhds so Viewed be
Condemned or not to be recovered According to Act of
Assembly of this province for Speedy recovery of small Debts
out of Court before a Single Justice.
And be itt further Enacted that in Case any of the Justices
of the County Court any Sher. Coroner Vestryman or Church

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