Acts. 441

hundred Pounds of Tobacco Contained in such Notes and so Pro-
portionably for a Greater or lesser Quantity for Shrinkage and
Wasting if the said Tobacco be Paid at any Time within two
Months after the date of the Note given for the same and one
Pound of Tobacco for every Hundred for every Month the same
shall be unpaid after the Said Allowance so as such Allowance for
Shrinkage and Wasting do not exceed in the whole Six Pounds of
Tobacco for every Hundred and if any Inspector or Inspectors by

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Shrinkage]

whom any such Notes for Tobacco as aforesaid shall be Signed
shall refuse or delay to pay and Satisfy the same when Demanded
every Inspector so refusing or delaying shall forfeit and pay to the
Party Injoined double the Value of the Tobacco so refused or de-
layed to be paid to be recovered with Costs in any Court of Record
within this Province if the Note or Notes so refused or delayed to
be paid exceed six hundred Pounds of Tobacco and if the said Note

p. 454

[Inspectors
not to delay
Payment]

or Notes do not Exceed six hundred pounds of Tobacco double the
Value aforesaid shall and may be recovered before any Justice of the
Peace of the County wherein the Warehouse shall be at which the
Note or Notes ought to be Paid

[The
Penalty]

And be it further enacted That no Inspector or Inspectors shall
hereafter on any Pretence Whatsoever presume to give out any
Promissory Note or Notes for Tobacco to any Person Whatsoever
unless he or they shall have Actually received and Passed the full
Quantity of Tobacco for which such Note or Notes shall be given
under the Penalty of his or their Forfeiting of his or their Years

[Inspectors
not to give
Notes unless
they have the
Tobacco]

Sallary nor shall any Inspector or Inspectors hereafter Presume to
give out any Crop Note or receipt in Lieu of Transfer Tobacco
unless the Hogshead of Tobacco for which such Note or Receipt
shall be so given out shall be Actually and Bonafide prized and
ready to be delivered for Exportation under the Penalty of eight
Hundred Pounds of Tobacco for every Crop Note or receipt so
given out

[Penalty]

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all
Tobacco brought to any of the said Warehouses in Hogsheads Casks
or Cases to be exported on Account and for the use of the Owner
thereof after the same shall have been viewed examined and Weighed
and found to be Good shall be Stampt as herein before directed
And the said Inspector or Inspectors shall deliver to the Person
bringing the same as many Receipts signed as aforesaid as shall
be required for the Number of Hogsheads so brought and Stampt
And for every Hogshead Cask or Case brought to any of the said
Warehouses on the Eastern Shore to be exported on Account and
for the Use of the Owners thereof their shall be Paid to the
Inspector or Inspectors there Attending twenty eight Pounds of
Tobacco for viewing examining and Stamping the same and the

[Inspected
Hogsheads
to be
stamped]