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

Liber H. S.
No. 1

such Tobacco and so in Proportion for a greater or less Quantity
so taken or received on Board in Bulk or Parcell and shall also
forfeit and pay Sixty Pounds of Tobacco for every day such Servant
shall thereafter be employed as Skipper or Master of any Sloop
Boat or other Vessell to him belonging To be recovered and Applied
as aforesaid

[Proviso, in
regard to
Tobacco for
the Payment
of Levies,
Debts etc]

Provided always that nothing herein before contained shall be
construed to Prohibit any Person from carrying or causing to be
carried to the said Warehouses in any Boat or other Vessell any
Tobacco in Bulk or Parcells for the Payment of his or her Levies
Debts or other duties nor to Prohibit any Person to put or take on
Board any Sloop Boat or other Vessel any Hogsheads Casks or Cases
of Tobacco to be Waterborn to any Warehouse or Warehouses Ap-
pointed by this Act so as the same be not carried out of the Naval
Officers district wherein the said Tobacco shall be made nor to
prohibit the owner of any Tobacco to transport his Crops or any
part thereof in Hogsheads Casks or Cases from one place to another
for the better handling and managing thereof nor any Purchaser
of Tobacco from bringing the same by Water to be repacked Sorted
Stemed or prized before the same be carried to the said Warehouses
so as such last mentioned Tobacco be packed in Hogsheads Casks
or Cases

[No Tobacco
to be re-
landed but at
Inspection
Houses; nor
to be taken
out of cask
by any Skip-
per, etc. be-
fore inspec-
ted: Nor
taken out
fraudulently
after In-
spection]

And be it further enacted That if the Skippers of any Sloop Boat
or other Vessel or other Person or Persons to whom the care and
Management thereof shall be entrusted shall Land or put on Shore
any Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco put on Board the same
to be carried to any Publick Warehouse at any other Place or Places
than the Warehouse or Warehouses by this Act Appointed for the
reception and inspection of Tobacco or at some or one of them or
the Wharffs or other Landing to such Ware House or Warehouses
belonging or shall put the same on Board any other Vessel or suffer
the same to be done so as the same be not delivered at some of the
said Publick Warehouses without fraud or Imbezzlement or shall
open any Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco so as aforesaid Water-
borne and landed and take thereout any Tobacco before the same
be viewed by some Inspector or Inspectors According to the Direc-
tions of this Act or after the same has been Viewed shall fraudulently
open any Hogshead Cask or Case and take thereout any Tobacco
every such Offence shall be Adjudged Felony and the Offender or
Offenders shall suffer by Whipping and Pillorying and paying four
Fold as in Case of Felony

p. 450
[Proviso,
in case of
Distress of
Weather]

Provided always that nothing herein before contained shall be
construed to Prohibit the Landing or putting on Shore any Hogshead
Cask or Case of Tobacco out of any Sloop Boat or other Vessel
so as such Landing be really and bonafide for the Preservation of
the Tobacco Laden in such Vessel and that the same be with all