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

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Sheriffs
to pay before
the last of
June]

the Sheriffs shall before the last day of June Yearly pay and deliver
to each Creditor According to their respective Debts or Claims all
the Inspector or Inspectors Notes or Money he hath received in
Satisfaction thereof And if any Sheriff shall refuse or delay to make
Payment Accordingly if required he or they so refusing or delaying
shall forfeit and pay to the party Grieved double the Value of the
Tobacco or Money so refused or delayed to be paid to be recovered
with Costs if the Party Creditor only inclines to sue the Sheriff or
Otherwise if he sue his Bond in this Case the -Creditor shall only
take his Debt Interest and Costs out of the Sheriffs Bond that shall

be sued.

[Tobacco re-
fused by the
Inspectors,
to be burnt;
unless the
owner de-
sires to sort
or pick it]

And be it Further enacted that when any Tobacco shall be Brought
to any of the Publick Warehouses and refused by the Inspector or
Inspectors there Officiating the same shall be immediately burnt by
them unless the Owner or Person bringing such Tobacco desires to
Sort and Seperate the same and to pick out such as is bad, in which
Case the Inspector or Inspectors Shall Permit the same to be done
at the Warehouse to which the said Tobacco shall be brought without
fee or reward but shall not on any Pretence Suffer the said Tobacco
to be removed or carried from the said Warehouse And the said

[The whole
to be burnt,
if not sorted
in one
month, ex-
cept where
it may be
necessary to
allow a
longer time]
p. 459

Inspector or Inspectors shall Allow one Month for Seperating or
Picking such Tobacco after which Time if the same be not done it
shall be lawful for him or them to burn the whole except where the
Tobacco is in a Sweat or where the Circumstances or Accidents of
Weather may have Prevented the handling of it in which Case the
Inspector or Inspectors shall Allow such further Time as he or they
shall think Reasonable And where any Tobacco shall be Seperated
and Picked as aforesaid the Trash and bad Tobacco shall be bound
by the Inspector or Inspectors the same day it shall be Picked out
under the Penalty of forfeiting fifty six Pounds of Tobacco for
every failure to the informer and if any Tobacco packed in Casks

[Overseers
to make
good all
burnt
Tobacco of
their own
making and
packing]

by an Overseer or the Hands under his Care shall be burnt by the
said Inspector or Inspectors by reason of its being bad unsound or
not in Good Condition the Overseer who had the care of making
and Packing the same shall bar the loss of the Tobacco so burnt and
make Satisfaction for the same out of his Share of the Crop or
Otherwise and the Inspector or Inspectors shall be Obliged to keep
an Account of all Tobacco so burnt

[Frauds
in his
Majesty's
Customs,
how to be
prevented]

And to the intent that the Just Quantity of Tobacco exported
may be more exactly known and all evil Practices to defraud his
Majesty of his Customs prevented Be it enacted by the Authority
aforesaid that all and every Inspector or Inspectors shall Carefully
enter in a Book to be Provided and kept for that Purpose the Marks
Numbers Gross Nett Weight and Tare of all Tobacco Viewed and
Stamped by him or them as aforesaid and in what Ships or Vessells