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on a Presumption that it has already Subsisted fifteen Years there
would not now remain any room for evasion We think that the
Justice due to those who are entitled to receive Tobacco in Worcester
County requires the Suppression of Baltimore Warehouse So incon-
venient is the Situation of it that those who are paid Tobacco there
are put to the Expence of at least 25 s p Hogshead to carry it to
Navigable Water and as there is an allowance of ten per Cent, for
Conveniency, the Purchasers of that Conveniency ought to have it
We apprehend that the expence of Shrinkage as it is now regulated is
too great and recommend to You the following Clause, in the new
Bill by which the Clergy and others Entituled to the Payment may
not be compellable to receive a Transfer Note in payment after three
Months from its Date
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Oct. 29
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As We have been informed that Crop Tobacco has remained in
Some Warehouses from the first Year of the Inspection to the
Present time without any claim or Demand We submit it to your
Consideration whether it might not be expedient, after Tobacco shall
have remained three Years after the Inspection thereof and no claim
or Demand made or Notice given to the Inspectors by the Pro-
prietor to direct the Inspectors to make a return of all Tobacco under
such Circumstances to the Next November Court after the Expira-
tion of the said three Years and then expose to Sale the same
together with the Transfer then liable to be Sold and that what
shall arise from the Sale thereof be applied to the Use of the County
wherein the Warehouse shall be, and that the Same be repaid by
the said County to the Proprietor of the Tobacco in Case any should
afterwards appear to Claim and make out his Property in the Said
Tobacco to the Satisfaction of the Justices of the Said County, To
the first fifteen Amendments that You propose and the Twentieth
We have no Objection nor to the Nineteenth so far as it relates to
Crop Notes
We will adopt your 16.th & 18.th Proposition if You confine the
Execution of the Duty to the Justices who may attend to discharge
it and pay them the same as they are allowed for their attendance
at the County Courts and We do reject your 17th. as not at all
necessary.
It was our Intention when we Proposed to insert Sterling through-
out the Law instead of Currency to rate Dollars at four Shillings
and Six pence Each and to make them a Legal Tender in Discharge
of Sixty Pounds of Tobacco to all Persons who should under the
Proposed Act have a right to receive either Sterling Money or
Tobacco, so that the People if a Clause to this Purpose is inserted
would not with regard to the payment of Officers Fees and the
Thirty Per Poll have the least reason to be dissatisfied and if you
think fit to regulate the Inspectors Sallaries in Sterling Payable also
in Dollars at four Shillings and Six pence each we Shall readily
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