328 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Noi'. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

[Commis-
sioners of
the Paper
Office to pay
the Justices
such Sums
as shall be
required.]

And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners or Trustees
for emitting Bills of Credit shall, and they are hereby obliged to pay
to the Justices of the several and respective Counties within this
Province, such Sum and Sums as they shall respectively require ac-
cording to the Direction of this Act: And the said Trustees are
hereby obliged and directed to keep distinct Accounts with each
respective County, charging therein the Sums paid, and to what
Justices, and of what County; And moreover, The said Justices are

[Weights
and Scales
to be ex-
amined every
Year.]

hereby directed and required, some Time in the Month of March,
in every Year, to appoint Two or more of their Number to view the
said Scales, and examine and try the Weights, at the several Ware-
houses, by the Standard Weights of the County; and if the same
or the other Necessaries hereby required, shall want repairing, or
the Weights be found deficient or differing from the lawful Standard,
the said Justices shall cause the same to be repaired and amended,
and the Weights made conformable to the Standard; and the
Charge of repairing and amending as aforesaid shall be paid by the

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Inspectors respectively, and be again allowed them in their Accounts
with the said Justices.

[Ware-
houses, by
whomsoever
built, are to
be let to
Inspectors.]

And be it further Enacted, That in Case the Proprietor or Owner,
Guardian, Husband, or Attorney, as aforesaid, shall undertake the
Building as aforesaid, and keeping the same in Repair; or in Case
he, she, or they, will not, and that the same be done by any other
Person as aforesaid; that in either of these Cases the Builder or
Builders shall be, and are hereby obliged to let the same to the
Inspector or Inspectors of such Warehouse, under the Penalty of
Two Hundred Pounds Current Money of this Province, at the Rates
following; that is to say, The Inspector or Inspectors of such Ware-
house shall, and are hereby obliged to pay to the Party building as
aforesaid, Nine Pence for every Hogshead of Tobacco that shall be
received into such Warehouse, and delivered out of the same in-
spected, and that annually.

[Ware-
houses al-
readv built,
to be rented
at Ninepence
per Hogs-
head.]

And be it further Enacted, That where the Warehouse or Ware-
houses, Wharffs, Prizes, and Cranes, are already built, and con-
tinued by this Act to be Warehouses for the Inspection of Tobacco,
the Owners or Froprietors thereof are hereby obliged to .Let the
same to the inspector or Inspectors, as the Case shall be, under the
Penalty aforesaid; and in that Case, the Rent of Nine Pence per
Hogshead as aforesaid, shall be paid to such Owners or Proprietors
of such Warehouses respectively, by the several Inspectors; and the
Residue of the Seven Shillings per Hogshead, and the Three Shil-
lings and Six Pence on the Eastern Shore, and the Three Shillings
on the Western Shore, per Hogshead, mentioned in this Act, shall be
applied to pay and defray the Charge of the Inspectors Salaries and
other Expences, such as, finding Weights and Scales and other
Necessaries, mentioned in this Act, and the keeping them in Repair,