306 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

Purchaser of Tobacco from bringing the same by Water to be re-
packed, sorted, stemmed, or prized, before the same be carried to
the said Warehouses, so as such last-mentioned Tobacco be packed
in Hogsheads, Casks or Cases.

[No Tobacco
to be re-
landed but at
Inspection
Houses; Nor
to be taken
out of Cask
by any Skip-
per, &c. be-
fore in-
spected: Nor
taken out
fraudulently
after Inspec-
tion.]

And be it further Enacted, That if the Skipper of any Sloop,
Boat, or other Vessel, or other Person or Persons to whom the
Care and Management thereof shall be intrusted, shall land or put
on Shore any Hogshead, Cask or Case of Tobacco, put on board
the same to be carried to any public Warehouse, at any other Race
or Places than the Warehouse or Warehouses by this Act appointed
for the Reception and Inspection of Tobacco, or at some or one of
them, or the Wharffs or other Landing to such Warehouse or Ware-
houses belonging; or shall put the same on board any other Vessel,
or suffer the same to be done, so as the same be not delivered at some
of the said public Warehouses, without Fraud or Imbezzlement, or
shall open any Hogshead, Cask or Case of Tobacco, so as aforesaid
water-born and landed, and take thereout any Tobacco before the
same be viewed by some Inspector or Inspectors, according to the
Directions of this Act; or, after the same has been viewed, shall
fraudulently open any Hogshead, Cask or Case, and take thereout
any Tobacco, every such Offence shall be adjudged Felony; and the
Offender or Offenders shall suffer by whipping and pillorying, and
paying fourfold, as in Case of Felony.

[Proviso, in
Case of Dis-
tress Of
Weather.]

Provided always, That nothing herein before contained shall be
construed to prohibit the Landing or putting on Shore, any Hogs-
head, Cask, or Case of Tobacco, out of any Sloop, Boat, or other
Vessel, so as such Landing be really and bona fide for the Preserva-
tion of the Tobacco laden in such Vessel, and that the same be with all
convenient Speed, carried thereafter to the Warehouse or Ship (as
the Case shall be) to which it was designed, without Imbezzlement.

[Tobacco
damaged in
it's Carriage
to the Ship,
may be re-
landed, sepa-
rated, and
repacked.]

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Provided also, That if by any Accident, or Negligence of the
Master or Skipper of any Vessel, any Tobacco which hath been
viewed and stamped, shall, in it's Carriage to the Ship, in which it is
intended to be exported, receive so much Damage as the Master of
such Ship will not receive it on board, every Hogshead, Cask, or Case
of Tobacco, so damnified, shall, with all convenient Speed, be carried
to some Warehouse, appointed by this Act, and there lodged, until
the Owner of such Tobacco, or Master of the Vessel in which it was
damaged, shall have separated the same, and then the remaining good
Tobacco shall be stamped by the Inspector or Inspectors, attending
such Warehouse, without Fee or Reward.

[Inspectors
to give Bond
with Sure-
ties, for the
due Execu-
tion of their
Office.]

Provided always, That every Person appointed, or to be appointed,
an Inspector, by Virtue of this Act, shall yearly, before he enters
upon the Execution of the said Office, enter into Bond, with good
Surety, before two Magistrates of the County wherein the Inspecting-
House, at which such Inspector shall serve, is situate, in the Penalty