Acts. 443

by Virtue of any such Note or receipt shall make Oath or Affirma-
tion if a Quaker before a Justice of the Peace of the County where
the same is payable to the Number or Date of every such Note or

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Receipt to whom and where payable and for what Quantity of
Tobacco the same was given and that such Note or receipt is lost
mislaid or destroyed and that he she or they at the time such Note
or Receipt was lost mislaid or destroyed was lawfully entituled to
receive the Tobacco therein mentioned and shall take a Certificate
thereof from such Justice And upon Producing a Certificate of such
Oath or Affirmation to the Inspector or Inspectors who signed such
Note or receipt and lodging the same with them the said Inspector
or Inspectors shall and he or they are hereby directed to pay and
deliver to the Person obtaining such Certificate the Tobacco for

[In what
Manner the
Tobacco
contained
therein may
be recovered
notwith-
standing]

which any such Notes or Receipts were given (if the same or any
part thereof shall not have been before by him or them paid by
Virtue of the said Notes or Receipts and shall be thereby discharged
from all Actions Suits and Demands on Account of such Notes or
Receipts And if any Person shall be Convicted of making a false

p. 456

Oath or Affirmation or Producing a forged Certificate in the Case
aforesaid he shall forfeit and pay two hundred and forty Pounds of
Tobacco for every hundred Pounds weight of Tobacco contained in
such Certificate and so in Proportion for a less Quantity and more-
over upon Conviction in any Court of Record shall suffer as in Case
of Wilfull and Corrupt Perjury

[Penalty and
Punishment
in case of
false Swear-
ing and
Forgery]

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all
Tobacco due or to grow due and payable for Public and County
levies Parochial Charges and all Officers and Attorneys fees which
shall not be discharged and paid in Gold and Silver as by this Act
is directed and the Allowance to the Clergy hereby Settled shall be
paid and discharged in the following Manner That is to say The
Public and County Levies in any of the Warehouses within the
County on which the same shall be levied Parochial Charges and
the Allowance to the Clergy in some Warehouse within that Parish
if required and all Officers and Attorneys fees in some of the Ware-
houses within the County where the Person shall live to whom the

same shall be Chargeable And should there happen to be any County
or Parish without a Warehouse that then and in such Case all the
aforesaid Public and County Levies Parochial Charges Officers and
Attorneys fees or such part thereof as shall not be paid in Gold or
Silver and Clergys Allowance shall be paid by Inspector or Inspectors
Notes at some Warehouse or Warehouses in the next Adjacent

[Public and
County
levies,
Parish
Charges,
Officers and
Attorney
Fees, where
to be paid]

County or Parish as the Case may require Provided always that no
Transfer Notes of the Preceding Years shall pass in any such
Payment

[Old Notes
not to pass]

And be it enacted that at the Time of laying any Public or County
Levies there shall be levied for the Sheriff that is to Collect and pay

[Sheriff's
Commission]