Acts. 495

ing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of
Officers Fees, so far as relates to the shipping off, and taking on
board any Ship or Vessel for Transportation, any old Tobacco,
made at any Time before the first Day of December, Seventeen
hundred and forty-seven, be, and is hereby declared to be abrogated,
repealed, and made null and void: And also so much of an Act of
Assembly entituled, An Act for Relief of Debtors, and ascertaining
the Manner of Tenders in Tobacco, and the Supplementary Act
thereto, so far as relates to Tenders made in Tobacco, be and are
hereby declared, from and after the last Day of October, Seventeen
hundred and fifty, to be abrogated, repealed, and made null and
void, for and during the Continuance of the said Act entituled, An
Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds in
his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees.

Liber B. L. C.
[Part of two
Acts, and a
Supplemen-
tary Act,
repealed.]

And be it likewise Enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any
Skipper of any Flat, Sloop, or other Vessel, after the End of this
Session of Assembly, to take any Inspected Tobacco branded, or
other Tobacco fit for shipping off, from any Warehouse within
this Province, in order to carry the same on board any Ship or other
Vessel for Exportation, before such Skipper shall make Oath before

[Every
Skipper of
a Flat &c. to
take an
Oath.]

the Inspector or Inspectors of such House or Houses (who are
hereby authorized and required to administer the same) " That all
such inspected, or other Tobacco, which he shall frome time to time
take on board such Flat, Sloop, or other Vessel, he the said Skipper
will, with all Opportunity of Wind and Weather, convey, or cause
to be conveyed, on board such Ship or Vessel, to which it shall be
directed by the Owner or Owners thereof, to be loaden for Expor-
tation; and that he the said Skipper will not take, nor suffer to be
taken by any Person whatever, any Tobacco out of such Hogshead
or Hogsheads, whilst the same shall remain under his Care and Man-
agement." And if any Skipper as aforesaid shall refuse or delay tak-
ing the Oath aforesaid, in Manner and Form aforesaid, such Skip-
per, for every Hogshead of such inspected or other Tobacco taken
on board contrary to the Intention of this Act, shall forfeit and pay
the Sum of twenty Pounds Current Money; one half thereof to the
Informer, or him, her, or them that shall sue for the same; and the
other half to be applied to the Use of the several and respective
Counties, to defray the Expences that hath or may accrue in the
due Execution of the first recited Act; to be recovered by Action
of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection,
or Wager of Law, nor more than one Imparlance, shall be allowed.

p. 516

And be it likewise Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for
the Justices of the several and respective County Courts within this
Province, where they shall see Cause, to levy on the taxable Inhabi-
tants of their County, for the Use of the several Inspectors of their
County, a Sum not exceeding three Pounds Current Money to each

[3 1. to be
levied for
the Inspec-
tors, for ex-
traordinary
Services.]