Acts. 323

the major Part of them, shall and may, and they are hereby author-
ized and required, to meet together at their several and respective
Parish Churches, between the First and the Tenth Days of Septem-
ber, yearly and every Year, during the Continuance of this Act, and
to nominate and recommend to the Governor or Commander in Chief
of this Province, for the Time being, Four or Two able and sufficient
Planters, well skilled in Tobacco, for each and every Inspection

Liber H. S.
No. I

within their different Parishes, as the Case may require, for the
Execution of the Office of Inspector or Inspectors, without having
regard to the Residence of such Person for Inspectors, as aforesaid :
And where it shall happen that Two Warehouses under One and the
same Inspection, shall be in different Parishes, the Vestrymen and
Churchwardens of each Parish, or the major Part of them, shall
nominate and recommend Two, or One, able and sufficient Planter or
Planters, well skilled in Tobacco, as the Case may require, for such
Inspection.

[If two
Warehouses,
under one
Inspection,
be in several
Parishes,
each Parish
to chuse.]

p. 59

And be it Enacted, That the several and respective Vestrymen and
Churchwardens, in both these Cases, shall forthwith transmit Certifi-
cates of such Nomination and Recommendation, to the Sheriff of the
said County, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the Clerk of
the Council for the Time being, to be by him immediately laid before
the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time being; out of
which said Four, or Two, Persons, in the First Case to be nomi-
nated and recommended for Inspector or Inspectors, the Governor or
Commander in Chief shall and may appoint, by Warrant under his
Hand, Two Persons out of the Four, or One Person out of the Two,
recommended to him from any One Vestry and Churchwardens, to
be Inspector or Inspectors, as the Case may require; and in the latter
Case, that is, where it shall happen that Two Warehouses under One
and the same Inspection shall be in different Parishes, there the
Governor or Commander in Chief, for the Time being, shall and
may choose and appoint Two Persons to be Inspectors in Manner
aforesaid, to wit, One out of the Nomination and Recommendation
of each Parish to execute the Office of Inspectors, at such Inspection.

[Lists to be
returned to
the Gover-
nor, to chuse
two out of
the four, or
one out of
two.]

And be it further Enacted, That if any Person who is or shall be
appointed by his Excellency the Governor, or Commander in Chief
for the Time being, to be an Inspector, shall refuse to take upon
himself the Execution of the said Office or Duty, such Person, so
refusing, shall be, and is hereby obliged and directed to signify such
his Refusal in Writing, under his Hand, directed to the Clerk of the
Council, for the Time being, and shall within Ten Days from the
Receipt of his Warrant, deliver such Writing to the Sheriff of the
County or his Deputy, where such Person shall reside, under the
Penalty of Fifty Shillings Current Money; to be recovered before
One Magistrate as in Case of small Debts, and the said Sheriff shall
and is hereby obliged to forward the same, in the like Manner that

[Inspectors,
if they re-
fuse, to give
Notice in
Ten Days.]