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

Liber H. S.
No. 1

[28ft Of

Tobacco
allow'd on
the Eastern
Shore to be
Paid the
Inspectors]
[24lb on the
Western]

owners of the said Tobacco shall find and Provide Nails for the
Nailing thereof And for every Hogshead Cash or Case brought to
any of the said Warehouses on the Western Shores to be exported
on Account and for the use of the Owners thereof there shall be
paid to the Inspector or Inspectors there Attending Twenty four
Pounds of Tobacco for viewing examining and Stamping the same
and the Owners of the said Tobacco shall find and Provide Nails
for the nailing thereof

[What is
lawful
Tender]

And be it further enacted That during the Continuance of this
Act no tender of any Debt or duty payable in Tobacco shall be
accounted Law full unless Payment of the same shall be tendered in
Inspector or Inspectors Notes or Receipts And for restraining the
undue Practice of mixing Trash with Stemmed Tobacco and Pre-

[Size of
Tobacco
Hogsheads]

venting the packing Tobacco in unsizable Casks Be it enacted and
declared That all stemmed Tobacco not laid Strieght Whether the
same be Packed loose or in bundles and all Tobacco Packed in Hogs-

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heads which exceed forty eight Inches in the length of the Stave
and Seventy Inches in the whole Diameters within the Staves at
the Croze and Bulge shall be accounted unlawfull Tobacco and
shall not be passed or received But the owner of such Tobacco
packed in Casks of Greater Dimensions than before expressed shall
be Obliged to repack the same in sizable Cask at his own Cost and
Charge before the same shall be Stamped by the said Inspectors

[Punishment
for forging
Notes or
Stamps]

And be it further enacted That if any Person Whatsoever shall
Forge or Counterfeit the Stamp Note or Receipt of any Inspector
or Inspectors or tender in Payment any such forged or Counter-
feited Note or receipt knowing it to be such or export or Cause to
be exported any Hogshead Cask Case Chest Box or other package
of Tobacco stampt with a forged or Counterfeit Stamp or Demand
Tobacco of any Inspector or Inspectors upon any such forged or
counterfeited Note or receipt knowing such Note or receipt or such
Stamp to be forged or Counterfeited or shall put or Pack into any
Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco Stamped by any Inspector any
Tobacco Whatsoever or shall draw or take out any Stave Plank or
Heading Board of any Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco after such
Hogshead Cask or Case of Tobacco shall be delivered out from any
of the Public Warehouses aforesaid every Person so Offending and
being thereof convicted by due Course of Law shall receive thirty
nine Lashes on his or her or their bare back and stand in the Pillory
for the space of two Hours and that in all such Cases the Testimony
of the Inspector or Inspectors Joined with other Strong and Cor-
roborating Circumstances shall and may be Admitted as Evidence

[Inspectors
Notes or
Receipts
being lost,
mislaid, or
destroyed]

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any
Inspector or Inspectors Notes or Receipts be Casually Lost mislaid;

or destroyed the Person or Persons entituled to receive the Tobacco