Acts. 337

shall not be shipped off, until it shall be again inspected, passed,
and stamped; for which the Inspector or Inspectors shall again
receive the established Fees, under the same Penalties as are herein
before inflicted, for shipping off, and taking on board any Ship, or
other Vessel, Tobacco not inspected, viewed, and stamped, according
to the Directions of this Act.

Liber H. S.
No. I

And be it further Enacted, That the Owner of any Transfer
Notes, may at any Time receive and mark Hogsheads of Tobacco
for satisfying such Notes, and the Inspector or Inspectors shall take
in his or their former Notes, and deliver Crop Notes and Receipts
for such Hogsheads, and shall be answerable for the safe keeping
thereof, in the same Manner as they are for Crop Tobacco. But the
Persons receiving such Hogsheads shall pay to the Inspectors Seven
Shillings and Six Pence for the Inspection and Nails, for every
Hogshead; that is to say, Four Shillings upon the Eastern Shore,
and Four Shillings and Six Pence on the Western Shore, down, and
Three Shillings and Six Pence on the Eastern Shore, and Three
Shillings on the Western Shore, when the Tobacco shall be delivered
out. And the Inspectors shall sell all Transfer Tobacco, which shall
not be so received and marked, on the Second or Third Day of
holding the Court of their respective Counties, in the Month of
November, yearly, by public Auction, in their County Courts re-
spectively held in that Month; and shall pay the Money arising by
such Sale, in Satisfaction of their Notes, from Time to Time, to
the Proprietors thereof making their Demand; under the same
Penalty as is inflicted, for not paying Inspectors Notes.

[Transfer
Tobacco, not
received and
marked, to
be sold an-
nually by
Auction.]

And for preventing Frauds that may be practiced, by selling only
Part of such Tobacco not received as aforesaid, Be it Enacted,
That all Inspectors shall, in Ten Days before November Court in
each respective County, yearly lodge with the respective County
Clerks where they shall officiate, an Account upon Oath, of all the
Transfer Tobacco at that Time in their Hands, before the same
shall be exposed to Sale: And all Inspectors shall keep a just and
true Account of the Tobacco gained or saved, upon the Allowances
made for Cask or Shrinkage of Transfer Tobacco, and if any
Tobacco shall be so gained or saved, shall exhibit an Account thereof
upon Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, in the same Manner as is
before directed, concerning Transfer Tobacco not received; and shall
also sell the Tobacco so gained and saved, in the same Manner as is
before directed for the Sale of Transfer Tobacco, and shall account
for the Money arising by such Sale to the Justices aforesaid; and
no Inspector shall convert any Tobacco so gained or saved, to his
own Use, either by the Allowances for Shrinkage, or Four per Cent
for Casks, or otherwise howsoever.

[Frauds in
selling only
Part of the
Transfer
Tobacco,
how to be
prevented-]

p. 76