Acts. 619

before the respective Justices fair and distinct Accounts of the Profits
and Loss relating to their respective Offices on Oath, or Affirmation
if a Quaker; and the Justices aforesaid shall settle and adjust such
Accounts; and that if the Profits of said Warehouses shall over and
above bear the Expences of this Act, that then the overplus Money
shall be applied to defray the Charge of the County.

Session Laws

And be it further Enacted, That where any Warehouses shall be
built by the Justices, or other Persons not Proprietors, and shall
hereafter happen to be discontinued for fifteen Months, the Pro-
prietor of the Land returning the Price paid for the said Land, shall
be from thenceforth seized of his former Estate.

Of Persons
building and
not continu-
ing 15
Months

Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall be construed
to give Power to the said Justices to take away the Houses,
Orchards, or other immediate Conveniences of any Proprietor of
Land, for the Uses or Purposes aforesaid; nor to the said Inspectors
to keep any Horses, Cattle, or Hogs, at any the public Warehouses
(except in Inclosures), upon the Land appointed for such Ware-
houses; and if any Swine belonging to the said Inspectors, or any
of them, shall be found at large upon the Land appropriated for such
Warehouses, or the Lands adjoining thereto, it shall and may be
lawful for the Proprietor of the Land, on which the said Ware-

Proviso

houses are to be placed, to kill, or cause them to be killed or de-
stroyed. And the said Justices, in their respective Counties, shall,
and are hereby declared to have full Power to put in Execution so
much of this Act as relates to the erecting and building of public
Warehouses, and to regulate all Matters concerning the same; and
to direct the building and repairing of Houses, Wharffs, Prizes,
Cranes, and other Conveniences, from Time to Time, as to them
shall seem necessary and expedient: And in case where the Pro-
prietor, Guardian, Husband, or Attorney, or any other Person (save
the Justices), shall build, and shall refuse or neglect to make Re-
pairs, and other necessary Conveniences, such as the said Justices
shall direct, it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices, and
they are hereby required to have the same done at the Charge of the
County; and the Justices of such County shall receive a propor-
tional Part of the twelve Pence per Hogshead, so as aforesaid to be
paid for the Rent, for the Use of the County; and if upon Appli-
cation of the Inspectors to the Justices aforesaid, for building and
making other necessary Houses, Wharffs, and Repairs, such Justices
shall refuse to do their Duty therein, every Justice so failing or re-
fusing, shall forfeit and pay five Pounds Current Money, to be
recovered in the County Court with Costs, by Action of Debt of
Information against such refusing Parties severally, in the Name
of the respective Inspector or Inspectors, and to be applied to the
Use of such Warehouse or Warehouses on which the Refusal shall
happen, as aforesaid.

p. 24
Justices to
see the Act
put in Exe-
cution and
direct the
building of
Ware-
houses, &c.