618 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

Session
Laws

sufficient, sealed, and exact Measures, as used in this Province, and
that the said Officer shall give due Attendance at the said Wharf and
Storehouses, and shall receive therein all such clean and merchant-
able Grain and Commodities as shall be brought there to be stored,
which he shall endeavor as much as he can to keep in separate Par-
cels: But whereas he may be often obliged to mix the Grain belong-
ing to several People, the said Officer shall use his utmost Skill in
examining the Grain so brought in at different Times, and shall not
receive into the said Storehouse any Wheat, or other Grain, that
shall not be sufficiently clean, sound, and merchantable.

Receipts to
be given for
Goods
lodged in the
said Store-
house.

And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said
Store-keeper shall give all Persons lodging any Grain, or other
Country Produce or Commodities, in the said Storehouse, authentic
Receipts for the same, and that the said Receipts shall be transferable,
and being legally indorsed or assigned, shall oblige the said Store-
keeper to deliver to the Indorsee or Assignee, without Delay, the
Goods or Commodities in the said Receipt mentioned, they paying
Storage for the said Goods or Commodities as is hereafter rated
and expressed, and no more.

Shrinkage
allowed on
goods lying
more than 3
Months.

Provided nevertheless, That for any Wheat or other Grain, meas-
ured into the said Storehouse, and lying therein above Three Months,
the said Storekeeper shall be allowed one per Cent, on the Delivery
thereof, for Shrinkage or other Waste, on the said Grain, and for
the Encouragement of Persons trading to the said Town, and for
the Credit of the Manufacture of Wheat shipped therefrom,

A Viewer of
Flour to be
appointed.

Be it also Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent afore-
said, That as soon as the said Officer or Storekeeper, shall be ap-
pointed as aforesaid, or at such other Times as the said Commis-
sioners shall see necessary, to appoint a Viewer or Examiner of
Flour, and after one Month's, publick Notice of the same, that no
Flour shall be shipped off from the said Town, but what shall be
carefully viewed and branded by the said Officer ( for which Purpose
a public Brand-Iron shall be provided by the Commissioners), who
shall on his entering the said Office, make Oath before one Provin-
cial or County Magistrate, that without Favour, Partiality, or Re-
spect of Persons, he will use his best Skill and Knowledge that no

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Flour be passed or branded by him, without his viewing and examin-
ing the same; and that he will not brand, or cause to be branded,
any Cask or Casks of Flour, that does not appear to the best of his
Skill and Knowledge, to be in all Respects sufficiently clean, sweet,
and merchantable, so as to be of equal Goodness and Fineness with
the like Commodities usually exported from the neighbouring trad-
ing Colonies; for the viewing and branding whereof, he shall re-
ceive from the Owner or Owners thereof the Sum of Threepence
Current Money, per Barrel, and no more.