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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1752-1754
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recommend an Inspector or Inspectors, whereby Inspectors shall not
be nominated and recommended in Pursuance of this Act, shall for-
feit and pay Five Pounds Current Money, with Costs of Suit, for

Liber H. S.
No. I

every such Offence; One Moiety to the Informer, the other Moiety
to the Uses in this Act mentioned, and to be recovered by Action of
Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection,
or Wager of Law, shall be allowed.

[To nomi-
nate and
recommend
Inspectors.]

Provided always, That no Vestryman or Churchwarden, who
shall be an Inspector, shall have or be allowed, so long as he shall be
an Inspector, any Vote in the Nomination or Recommendation of
any other Inspector or Inspectors; and that where any Person or
Persons shall be appointed in Pursuance of such Nomination and
Recommendation, as already mentioned, and shall afterwards and
again be nominated and recommended to be an Inspector or Inspec-
tors for the ensuing Year, such Nomination and Recommendation
shall be a sufficient Power to such Inspector or Inspectors to be and
continue in the said Office, without any further Appointment; and
so from Year to Year, so long as he or they shall be nominated and
recommended as aforesaid.

[Proviso.]

And be it further Enacted, That every Vestryman and Church-
warden shall take the following Oath, before they proceed to the
Nomination or Recommendation of any Inspector or Inspectors ;
to wit, I A. B. do swear, that I will faithfully, honestly, and justly,
nominate and recommend such Person or Persons, to be an Inspector
or Inspectors, as I think in my Judgment and Conscience is or are
fit and capable to execute the Office of an Inspector or Inspectors.
So help me God.

[Oath to be
taken by
Vestrymen
and Church-
wardens.]

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Justices of each respective County within this Province shall, with
all possible Speed, make Enquiry who are the Proprietors or Own-
ers of the Ground whereon any Warehouse or Warehouses, within
the respective Counties are by this Act directed to be built, and then
direct their Clerk to issue a Note in Writing, to the Sheriff of the
respective County, who is hereby required to serve the same, thereby
signifying to such Proprietors or Owners, or his or her Guardian,
Husband, or Attorney, that a Warehouse is directed by Act of Assem-
bly to be erected at such a Place, naming it, being his, her, or their
Land; and thereby also requiring the said Proprietor or Owner, if

[Concerning
the Owners
of Lands
whereon the
Warehouses
are to be
built]

they think proper, to be and appear before them on a certain Day
therein to be mentioned, which shall not, in point of Time, exceed
Ten Days, in order to agree with such Proprietor or Owner, for
the Value of the said Acre or Half Acre of Land, as the Case may
happen: And that if the Proprietor or Owner of the said Land should
happen to be under Age, Feme Covert, or beyond Seas, then the like
Note in Writing shall be made and served on the Guardian, Husband,

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