334 Assembly Proceedings, October 4-November 26, 1763.

L. H. J.

Liber No. 52
Oct. 25

and agree to the Amendments proposed in your Remarks on page
the 11 .^th Section 34. We agree likewise to your first Remark upon
6,^th Sect. 15, and to that part of your Second Remark on the same
page and Section, which relates to the Weight of Tobacco, to that
part of your Remark on page 24, section 65, which relates to re-
weighing Tobacco, and to leaving out Section 139.

We likewise agree to include in a new Law, all the necessary and
proper parts of the Supplementary Laws we think it needless to
make your proposed Addition to the Inspectors Oath, as that addi-
tion and every other Branch of his duty, is included in the General
Terms of the oath

We cannot agree to your Amendments of page 4.^th Sect, 11, as to
the Commencement of the Inspectors Constant attendance; the
month of March is Generally very bad Weather, and there is but
little Tobacco at that time Carried to the Warehouses, And that
only by People who have particular Occasions for their Tobacco,
which they have a Right to have Inspected whenever they please to
call upon the Inspectors

Nor can We think it reasonable to close the Inspection the Last
day of June; the Business of Farming and planting are very much
intermixed in most parts of the province, which a good deal retards
the Planter in preparing his Tobacco for Inspecton and we think, in
a General way, render it impracticable to do it by the last of June,
Consistent with the Farming part of his Affairs.

We cannot agree to your last Remark on page 6 Sectn 15. because
we are of Opinion, that the real Shrinkage may in many Instances,
Exceed 4 p C.^th and that the unavoidable Wast attending the han-
dling of the Transfer Tobacco, frequently brings a Loss upon the
Inspector upon our best Consideration of the time necessary to be
allowed the People for payment of the Publick, and for the Sheriff
to make his payments, we cannot agree to your Remarks upon page
9^th Sect.^ns 28 & 30. the amendment you propose of Page 25 Sectⁿ 67.

We cannot agree to, many light Crop hogsheads lay a good while
in the Warehouses, get dry and are Sometimes badly packed and
in such Cases they are more difficult to Make heavy than Transfer
Tobacco, so that We think, Obliging the Inspector to make such
Tobacco 1000 Weight will impose to great a hardship on him

p. 135

Your Remark on page 28, Sect.ⁿ 80, we cannot agree to. The
people generally raise Money for the Public payments, by the produce
of the year past, and they Cannot, We think, with tolerable Con-
venience, do it sooner than against the tenth of April.
We cannot agree to your Amendment of page 13. Sectⁿ 35, the
dropping Baltimore Warehouse will bring a very great hardship
on a Number of poor People