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

Liber H. S.
No. I

belonging to several Owners, to be picked, repacked and prized, at
any public Warehouse, the Owner, or other Person bringing the

[Tobacco
first brought,
to be first
sorted.]

same, whose Tobacco shall be first viewed and refused, shall be first
permitted and allowed to make use of such Prize or Prizes; and the
same Rule shall be observed in the prizing all Tobacco which shall
be picked, repacked, and prized as aforesaid. And for all Tobacco

[3 s. & 6d.
and 3 s. to be
paid the
Inspectors.]

repacked and prized by the Owner thereof, or the Servants and
Slaves to him belonging, there shall be paid to the Inspectors thereof,
only Three Shillings and Six Pence on the Eastern Shore, and Three
Shillings on the Western Shore, for stamping; and for all Tobacco
repacked and prized by the Inspectors, Seven Shillings for each
Hogshead, and also Six Pence for Nails, unless the Proprietor shall
find and provide Nails. And no Inspector shall take or convert to
his own Use, or otherwise dispose of, any Draughts or Samples of
Freight or Crop Tobacco; but the same (if fit to pass) shall be
carefully put into the Hogshead out of which it was drawn, under the

[Samples, if
good, to be
replaced.]

Penalty of forfeiting Twenty Shillings for every Draught so taken
away, contrary to the Directions of this Act: To be recovered before
any Justice of the Peace of the County wherein such Offence shall
be committed. And all and every Inspector or Inspectors, if required,
shall alter the Mark of any Hogshead of Tobacco, for which they
have before given a Receipt; and for preventing Confusion and
Mistakes, shall keep a Waste-Book, in which shall be entered the
Marks and Numbers of all Hogsheads of Tobacco received by
them; and another Book, in which shall be entered the Marks and
Numbers thereof, when the same shall be delivered out by them.

[Inspectors
to keep
Books of
Marks and
Numbers.]

And all Inspectors, when required, shall be obliged to prize any
Hogshead of Crop Tobacco, under Nine Hundred and Fifty Pounds
Nett, so as to make it up that Weight; but shall receive the same
Fee upon such Hogshead, as for Transfer Tobacco, and may make
the lawful Abatements for the Tobacco prized in. And where any
Tobacco shall be brought to any Warehouse, by the Overseer of the
Owner thereof, the Inspector or Inspectors shall give Notes and

[Notes to be
given in the
Name of the
Owners.]

Receipts in the Name of the Owner, and not of the Overseer; which
Notes and Receipts shall be delivered to the Owner, or to his
Order.

p. 75

[Light
Hogsheads
of Tobacco,
not stamped,
may be de-
livered by
inspectors to
Owners of
their Notes ;
but not
shipped.]

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any
light Hogshead or Parcel of Tobacco, after the same shall be passed
at any public Warehouse, and not stamped, shall and may be delivered
out by the Inspector or Inspectors to the Owner of their Notes;
and such Tobacco may be carried away, for the better sorting and
stemming the same; provided the Person receiving such Tobacco
shall pay for the Inspection thereof, after the Rate of Seven Shil-
lings for every Nine Hundred and Fifty Pounds Weight, and so in
Proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity: And that such Tobacco