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Liber H. S.
No. 1
[No Tobacco
to be ex-
ported 'til
first brought
to a public
Warehouse]
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Be it therefore enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same, That all Tobacco which shall be exported
out of this Province from and after the last day of November Seven-
teen hundred and Sixty three shall be first brought to some or one of
the Publick Warehouses herein after mentioned and shall be there
Viewed and inspected in manner as herein after expressed, except
such Tobacco as hath been or shall be, inspected before the said last
day of November under any Act of Assembly of this Province
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[All To-
bacco for
Exportation
to be taken
on board at
some public
warehouse,
after the
same is
Inspected]
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And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no
Person shall put on Board or receive into any Ship, Sloop, boat, or
other Vessell in order to be exported therein any such Tobacco not
packed in Hogsheads, Casks or Cases upon any Pretence What-
soever; nor in any Hogshead, Cask, or Case, to be in that or any
other Ship, Sloop or Vessell exported Out of this Province, before
the same shall have been Viewed and inspected, according to the
Directions of this Act (except as before excepted) But that all such
Tobacco to be received or taken on Board any Ship Sloop or other
Vessel and to be therein exported or to be carried or put on Board
any other Ship Sloop or Vessel for exportation as aforesaid shall
be received or taken on Board at the Several Warehouses for that
Purpose herein after mentioned or some or one of them and at no
other Place or Places Whatsoever And every Master Mate or
Boatswain which shall Arive in this Province in order to lade
Tobacco during the Continuance of this Act shall before the Ship
or Vessell be permitted to take on Board any such Tobacco make
Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker before the Naval Officer of the
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[An Oath
to be ad-
ministered
to Masters,
Mates, and
Boatswains
of Vessels,
before tak-
ing Tobacco
on board]
[Penalty
in case of
Default]
p. 448
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district wherein such Ship or Vessel shall Arive (which Oath the
said Naval Officer is hereby empowered and required to A minister)
That they will not Permit any such Tobacco to be taken on Board
their respective Ships or Vessels except the same be packed in
Hogsheads Casks or Cases Stamped by some inspector as by law
directed legally thereunto Appointed Which Oath they shall Sub-
scribe in a Book to be kept by the Naval Officer for that Purpose
And if any such Master shall cause any Person who is not really
and Bonafide Mate or Boatswain of the Ship or Vessel to come on
Shore and take such Oath he shall for the said Offence forfeit and
pay four thousand eight hundred Pounds of Tobacco and if any
Master or Commander of any Ship or Vessel shall take on Board or
suffer to be taken on Board the Ship or Vessel whereof he is Master
any Tobacco brought from any other place, than some or one of the
Publick Warehouses herein after mentioned as any Hogshead Cask
or Case of Tobacco not Stamped by some lawfull inspector or shall
suffer to be brought on Board any Tobacco except in Hogsheads
Casks or Cases Stamped as aforesaid every such Master and Com-
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