Acts. 619

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That after
such Viewer and Examiner shall be appointed in Manner aforesaid,
no Flour whatsoever shall be shipped off for Trade or Exportation,
from any other Place or Landing on North-East River, but that
all Flour from thence intended to be shipped off, shall be brought
either by Land or by Water to the said Town, and be there viewed
and branded by the Officer aforesaid, on Penalty of Forfeiture of
the said Flour, or Value thereof, to be recovered in any County-
Court of this Province, by Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no
Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law, shall be allowed, one Moiety
of which Forfeiture to be paid to the Informer, the other Moiety
to be paid to the Commissioners, or the major Part of them, for the
Time being, to be applied towards the building, repairing, and main-
taining the said public Wharf and Warehouse, and to be accounted
for as abovesaid.

Session
Laws
No Corn to
be shipped
from North-
East River,
except from
this Town.

And be it further Enacted, That any Person or Persons bringing
Flour to the said Town, to be viewed and examined as aforesaid,
which shall prove on Examination thereof to be unmerchantable,
according to the Intent and Meaning of this Act, the said Officer
shall not brand the same, but cause it to be marked on the Head or
Bulge with the broad Arrow, or secure it for a further Examination
if required, which the Owner shall demand and receive from the
Owner or Owners thereof the same Rate and Price, as if he put the
Brand thereon: Provided, That when any Person or Persons shall
think him, her, or themselves aggrieved, through the Judgment or

Flour not
merchant-
able to be
mark'd

Want of Skill of the said Officer, it shall and may be lawful for him,
her, or them, to apply to one or other of the said Commissioners,
who shall at the Charge of the said Complainant issue Summons to
two or more indifferent Persons well skilled in the said Manufacture,
to review and examine the same, which if they shall pass and declare
to be merchantable, then the said Officer shall raze out the broad
Arrow, and put the Brand on the said Flour, and repay the said Cost ;
but if on such Review, the Judgment of the said Officer is confirmed,
then the said Owner or Owners of such Flour shall, besides the said
Cost, forfeit and pay one Shilling Current Money per Barrel, to be
recovered before a single Magistrate, and to be paid to the Com-
missioners, to be applied as aforesaid.

Proviso.

And be it further Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Per-
son or Persons to export the said Flour so marked with the broad
Arrow, nor any other Cask or Casks of Flour not examined and
branded as aforesaid, out of the North-East River, on Pain of For-

Such Flour
not to be
exported.

feiture of Five Shillings Money aforesaid a Barrel, for every Barrel
so put on board of any Ship or other Vessel, for such Exportation,

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to be recovered and applied as abovesaid.
And be it further Enacted, That all Flour and Bread that shall be
shipped off from the said Town, shall be bought and sold by the Long

Flour &.c. to
be sold by
the Long
Hundred.