Acts. 315

Cases it shall and may be lawful for the Sheriff to take such Person
in Execution for such Levies, Dues, Charges, and Fees. And the
Sheriffs shall, before the last Day of June yearly, pay and deliver to

Liber H. S.
No. I

each Creditor, according to their respective Debts or Claims, all the
Inspector or Inspectors Notes, or Money, he hath received in Satis-
faction thereof: And if any Sheriff shall refuse or delay to make
Payment accordingly, if required, he or they so refusing or delaying
shall forfeit and pay to the Party grieved double the Value of the
Tobacco, or Money, so refused or delayed to be paid, to be recovered
with Costs, if the Party Creditor only inclines to sue the Sheriff; or
otherwise, if he sues his Bond in this Case, the Creditor shall only
take his Debt, Interest, and Costs, out of the Sheriffs Bond that shall
be sued.

[Sheriffs to
pay before
the last of
June.]

p. 50

And be it further Enacted, That when any Tobacco shall be
brought to any of the public Warehouses, and refused by the Inspec-
tor or Inspectors there officiating, the same shall be immediately
burnt by them, unless the Owner, or Person bringing such Tobacco,
desires to sort and separate the same, and to pick out such as is bad;
in which Case the Inspector or Inspectors shall permit the same to be
done, at the Warehouse to which the said Tobacco shall be brought,
without Fee or Reward; but shall not on any Pretence suffer the said

[Tobacco
refused by
the Inspec-
tors, to be
burnt; un-
less the
Owner de-
sires to sort
or pick it.]

Tobacco to be removed, or carried from the said Warehouse. And
the said Inspector or Inspectors shall allow One Month for separating
or picking such Tobacco; after which Time, if the same be not done,
it shall be lawful for him or them to burn the whole; except where the
Tobacco is in a Sweat, or where the Circumstances or Accidents of
Weather may have prevented the handling of it, in which Case the
Inspector or Inspectors shall allow such further Time as he or they
shall think reasonable. And where any Tobacco shall be separated and
picked as aforesaid, the trash and bad Tobacco shall be burnt by the
Inspector or Inspectors the same Day it is picked out, under the
Penalty of forfeiting Seven Shillings for every Failure, to the

[The whole
to be burnt,
if not sorted
in One
Month; ex-
cept where
it may be
necessary to
allow a
longer
Time.]

Informer. And if any Tobacco packed in Cask by an Overseer, or
the Hands under his Care, shall be burnt by the said Inspector or
Inspectors by reason of it's being bad, unsound, or not in good Con-
dition, the Overseer who had the Care of making and packing the
same, shall bear the Loss of the Tobacco so burnt, and make Satis-
faction for the same, out of his Share of the Crop, or otherwise.
And the Inspector or Inspectors shall be obliged to keep an Account

[Overseers
to make
good all
burnt To-
their own
making and
packing.]

of all Tobacco so burnt.
And to the Intent that the just Quantity of Tobacco exported, may
be more exactly known, and all evil Practices to defraud his Majesty
of his Customs prevented, Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That all and every Inspector or Inspectors shall carefully enter in a
Book, to be provided and kept for that Purpose, the Marks, Num-
bers, Gross, Nett Weight, and Tare, of all Tobacco viewed and

[Frauds in
his Majes-
ty's Cus-
toms, how to
be pre-
vented.]

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