Acts. 437

convenient Speed Carried thereafter to the Warehouse or Ship (as
the Case shall be) to which it was designed without Imbezzelment

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Provided also that if by any Accident or Negligence of the Masters
or Skippers of any Vessell any Tobacco which hath been Viewed
and Stamped shall in its Carriage to the Ship in which it is intended
to be exported receive so much Damage as the Master of such Ship
will not receive it on Board every Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco
so Damnified shall with all Convenient Speed be carried to some
Warehouse appointed by this Act and there lodged untill the owner
of such Tobacco or Master of the Vessell in which it was Damaged
shall have seperated the same and then the remaining good Tobacco
shall be Stamped by the Inspector or Inspectors Attending such
Warehouse without Fee or reward

[Tobacco
damaged in
its Carriage
to the Ship,
may be re-
landed, sepa-
rated, and
repacked]

Provided always that every Person appointed so to be Appointed
an Inspector by Virtue of this Act shall Yearly before he enters
upon the Execution of the said Office enter into Bond with Good
Surety before two Magistrates of the County wherein the inspecting
House at which such Inspector shall serve is Situate in the Penalty
of forty eight Thousand Pounds of Tobacco payable to the Lord
Proprietary his Heirs and Successors with Condition for the true
and faithfull Performance of his duty according to the Directions
of this Act and shall also take the following Oath or Affirmation if
a Quaker that is to say

[Inspectors
to give Bond
with Sureties
for the due
Execution of
their office]

"You shall Swear (or Affirm) that you will diligently and care-
fully view and examine all Tobacco brought to any Publick Ware-
house or Warehouses where you are Appointed to be Inspector and
all other Tobacco which you shall be called upon to View and
inspect and that you will not receive any Tobacco that is not in your
Judgment sound well Conditioned Merchantable and clear of Trash
nor receive pass or Stamp any Tobacco or Hogshead Cask or Case
of Tobacco Prohibited by an Act of Assembly entituled an Act for
amending the Staple of Tobacco for Preventing Frauds in his Maj-
estys Customs and for the Limitation of Officers fees, and that
you will receive pass and Stamp all Tobacco that is sound well Con-
ditioned Merchantable and Clear of Trash and in all Things well
and faithfully discharge your duty in the Office of an Inspector
According to the best of your Skill and Judgment and According
to the Directions of the said Act without Fear Favour Affection
Malice or Partiality So help you God" Which Oath or Affirmation
shall & may be taken before any one Justice of the Peace for the
County where such Inspector shall Officiate and- by such Justice
Certified to the Vestrymen and Church Wardens of the Parish and
an entry thereof made in the Book which the said Vestry are Obliged
to keep by this Act And if any Person shall Presume to execute the
Office of an Inspector before he has given such Bond and taken
such Oath or Affirmation as aforesaid as also the Oaths or Affirma-

[The Oath]