Acts. 467

the Money and Tobacco paid for Nails for every Hogshead of Trans-
fer in which Account they shall be Allowed their Sallaries the rent
for Warehouses Purchase of Tobacco Hogsheads and other Neces-
sary Disbursements in Pursuance of this Act and shall and are
hereby Obliged to pay the Owners or Proprietors for the Rent of
their Warehouses the same proportion in Money and Tobacco as
they shall on the whole receive in that Year on Account of their
said Several Warehouses

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And if it shall so happen that at the laying of the said County levy
there shall be any Claim or Claims arising by the Salary of an
Inspector or Inspectors County Clerk or other Annual Charge from
any Inspecting House or Houses within any County in this Prov-
ince it shall and may be lawfull for the Justices of such County
Respectively and they are hereby directed and required at the
November Court of such County Yearly to Assess and levy a Quan-
tity of Tobacco Sufficient to discharge the same on the Taxable
Inhabitants of such County that thereby the Current expences of
each Year may be defrayed

[Charges
arising by
Salaries, &c.
to be settled
in November
annually]
p. 477

And be it further enacted That all Debtors now owing Tobacco

which did arise due before the Sixteenth day of May Seventeen

hundred and forty Seven their Executors and Administrators shall
if they pay their Tobacco Debts then due in Inspected Tobacco at
Warehouses in Pursuance of this Act be Allowed by their Several
and respective Creditors their Executors or Administrators a Deduc-
tion of one fourth Part of their said Debts or Demands

[A fourth to

be deducted

from old
Tobacco
Debts]

And for as much as Several or most of the Traders within this
Province have kept their Books in Money though in truth their
dealings have been for Tobacco and the intentions both of Creditor
and Debtor hath been that the Payment should be made in Tobacco
Be it therefore enacted That in all such Cases the Creditor shall be
Paid in Tobacco at the General Rates such Creditor dealt at the
Time such Contract was made and Accordingly to the true intent
and meaning of this Act deducting from such Debts one fourth part
of the Demands as aforesaid if the Creditor be paid in Inspected

Tobacco in Case of Debts due before the Sixteenth day of May

Seventeen hundred and forty seven and not Otherwise

[Debts con-
tracted for
Tobacco]

And be it further enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent
aforesaid That all Judgments Bonds Bills Mortgages Bills of Ex-
change Notes or Other Securities of any kind for the Payment of
Money instead of Tobacco which have been or shall be taken in
order to elude the Provision made by this Act or the Act entituled
an Act for Amending the Staple of Tobacco for Preventing frauds
in his Majestys Customs and for the Limitation of Officers ffees
made at a Session of Assembly begun and held at the City of An-
napolis on the Sixteenth day of May Seventeen hundred and forty

[Notes,
bonds, &c
given for
money, to be
void if the
debt was
contracted
for Tobacco
before May
16, 1747]