Acts. 455

Nominate and Recommend to the Governor or Commander in Chief
of this Province for the Time being two Good and able Planters
well Skilled in Tobacco for each of the said Inspections for the
Execution of the Office of Inspector at the Houses aforesaid

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it enacted That the several and Respective Vestrymen
and Church Wardens in all Cases shall forthwith Transmit Certifi-
cates of such Nomination and Recommendation to the Sheriff of
the said County who shall forthwith Transmit the same to the Clerk
of the Council for the time being to be by him Immediately laid
before the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time being
out of which said four or two Persons to be mentioned and Recom-
mended for Inspector or Inspectors the Governor or Commander in
Chief shall and may Appoint by Warrant under his Hand two
Persons out of the four or one Person out of the two recommended
to him from any one Vestry and Churchwardens to be Inspector or
Inspectors as the Case may require and where it shall happen that
two Warehouses under one and the same Inspection shall be in differ-
ent Parishes there the Governor or Commander in Chief for the

[Lists of
Inspectors
to be trans-
mitted to the
Governor,
who is to
choose Two
out of Four,
or One out
of Two]

time being shall and may choose and Appoint two Persons to be
Inspectors in Manner aforesaid to wit one out of the Nomination
and Recommendation of each Parish to execute the Office of In-
spector at such Inspection

p. 467

And be it further Enacted That if any Person who is or shall be
Appointed by his Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief
for the Time being to be an Inspector shall refuse to take upon
himself the Execution of the said Office or duty such Person so
refusing shall be and is hereby Obliged and directed to Signify such
his Refusal in Writing under his Hand directed to the Clerk of the

[Inspectors,
if they
refuse]

Council for the Time being and shall within ten days from the
Receipt of his Warrant deliver such Writing to the Sheriff of the
County or his deputy where such Person shall reside under the
Penalty of four hundred Pounds of Tobacco to be recovered before
one Majestrate as in Case of small Debts and the said Sheriff shall
and is hereby Obliged to forward the same in the like manner that
Public Letters by the Laws of this Province are to be forwarded
which are directed for his Lordships Service And every Inspector
or Inspectors to be Chosen and accepting the Office shall not resign
his said Office or refuse to Act therein until the first day of Novem-
ber Yearly

[They are to
give notice
in Ten Day s]

And be it further enacted That where the same Persons are by
any of the Vestries again Rechose to serve as Inspectors for the
Year next Following they and every of the said Inspectors shall if
they incline to serve signify their Acceptance thereof within ten days
next after such Time of their being so Rechosen which Signification
shall be made in the same Manner as Persons Appointed by his

[In case of
being re-
chosen]