Acts. 457

Provided always and it is the true Intent and meaning of this Act
that though the Vestrymen and Churchwardens are to Elect In-
spectors Annually yet where they elect again a Former Inspector
or Inspectors they shall Continue such without any new Appoint-
ment by the Governor or Commander in Chief

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Proviso]

And be it further enacted That every Vestrymen or Church-
warden who shall Neglect or refuse (not being Prevented by Sick-
ness or some unavoidable Accident) to meet According to the
Directions of this Act to Nominate and recommend an Inspector or
Inspectors whereby Inspectors shall not be Nominated and Recom-
mended in Pursuance of this Act shall forfeit and pay eight hundred

[Vestries
not to neg-
lect to meet,
to nominate
and recom-
mend In-
spectors]

Pounds of Tobacco with Costs of Suit for every such Offence one
Moiety to the informer the other Moiety to the uses in this Act
mentoned and to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or
Information wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall
be Allowed

[Penalty]

Provided always that no Vestrymen or Church Warden who shall
be an Inspector shall have or be Allowed so long as he shall be an
Inspector any Vote in the Nomination or Recommendation of any
other Inspector or Inspectors and that where any Person or Persons
shall be Appointed in Pursuance of such Nomination and Recom-
mendation as already mentioned and shall Afterwards and again
be Nominated and recommended to be an Inspector or Inspectors
for the ensuing Year such Nomination and Recommendation shall
be a Sufficient Power to such Inspector or Inspectors to be and
Continue in the said Office without any further Appointment and
so from Year to Year so long as he or they shall be Nominated and
Recommended as aforesaid

[No Vestry-
men etc. who
is an In-
spector, to
have a Vote
in Nomina-
tion]

And be it further Enacted that every Vestrymen and Church
Warden shall take the following Oath before they Proceed to the
Nomination or Recommendation of any Inspector or Inspectors
to wit "I AB to Swear that I will faithfully honestly and Justly
Nominate and Recommend such Person or Persons to be an In-
spector or Inspectors as I think in my Judgment and Conscience is
or are fit and Capable to execute the Office of an Inspector or
Inspectors so help me God"

[Oath to be
taken by
Vestrymen
and Church-
warden]

And be it further enacted That there shall by the Justices of each
County at the County Charge and kept at every one of the said
Warehouses a Good and Sufficient Beam Weights and Scale to
weigh fifteen hundred Gross Pounds at the least and a set of Small
Weights the same that are or ought to be Provided for the Standard
Weights of each County And the said Justices are hereby required
and Obliged to keep the same in Good repair together with the
Blocks Tackles and other Necessaries

p. 469

[Weights to
be Provided
to weigh 15
Cwt. and
small ones]