494 Assembly Proceedings, May 8-June 2, 1750.

Liber B. L. C.

tive Warehouses are defrayed, such Overplus shall be yearly applied,
by the Justices of the several and respective Counties where such
Overplus shall arise, to defray the County Charge.

[Inspectors
not to buy
Tobacco,
&c.]
p. 515

And be it further Enacted, That no Inspector or Inspectors what-
soever shall directly or indirectly, either for himself or any other
Person, buy or receive, by Way of Barter, Loan, or Exchange, any
Tobacco whatsoever, or suffer or permit any Tobacco to be bought
by any Person or Persons whatsoever, with any Money arising by
the Sale of any Goods, Wares or Merchandizes whatsoever, made
by any of the Inspector or Inspectors, either upon their own Ac-
counts or the Accounts of any other Person or Persons whatsoever,
under the Penalty of twenty Shillings Currency for every hundred
Weight of Tobacco so bought or received; to be recovered before
a single Magistrate as in case of small Debts, one half thereof to the
Use of the Informer; and the other to the several and respective
Counties, to defray the Expence that hath or may accrue in the due
Execution of the first recited Act.

[Proviso.]

Provided always. That nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to hinder any Inspector from receiving his Rents in Tobacco,
which shall be first viewed, examined, and stamped, according to the
Directions of this Act.

[Costs of
Suit may be
paid in
Money, at
12 s. 6 d. per
Hundred.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That where Plaintiff or Defendant,
in any Suit now commenced, or that shall hereafter be commenced
in any Court within this Province, in whose Favour any Judgment
shall be given, so as to intitle such Plaintiff or Defendant to his or
her Cost, and who shall pay the said Cost, or any Part thereof, in
the Current Money of this Province, in all such Cases it shall and
may be lawful for the Party against whom such Judgment shall be
rendered, and he or she is hereby enabled to discharge all, or so much
of the said Cost in Current Money, at the Rate of twelve Shillings
and six Pence per Centum, as shall be really and bona fide paid by
the Party in whose Favour such Judgment for Cost shall be given ;
any Law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

[All To-
bacco made
before De-
cember 1,
1747, to be
under the
same Re-
strictions as
Tobacco
made since
that Time.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That all Tobacco made before the
first Day of December, Seventeen hundred and forty-seven, and
which shall not be carried to some Warehouse at or before the last
Day of October next, shall be, and is hereby declared to be under the
same Restrictions, and liable in all Respects to the like Inspection,
and under the same Penalties and Advantages, to all Intents, Con-
structions and Purposes whatever, as all Tobacco now is or shall be,
which has been or shall be made since the aforesaid first Day of
December, Seventeen hundred and forty-seven; any Law heretofore
made to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
And be it likewise Enacted, That so much of an Act of Assembly
entituled. An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for prevent-