Acts. 487

should be used for Storing Tobacco only and the owner thereof
not Burthened with the expence of keeping Prizes for his said
House or a Wharf and Crane at his Landing Be it therefore enacted
and Declared that one third part only of the six Pounds of Tobacco
per Hogshead due for rent on all Tobacco delivered out of the said
two Warehouses shall be Paid to the Owner of the House on William
Willsons Lott and the remaining two thirds to the Owner of the
House on William Gale's Lott

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further enacted That no Deputy Commissary within
this Province shall exact extort Demand take accept or receive from
any Person Whatsoever any fee or Fees Gratuity Gift or Reward
for giving his Advice in any matter or thing relative to his Office
or for Procuring a Commission from the Commissary General to
pass any Account before him

[Deputy
Commissary
not to charge
any Fee for
advice &c]

And be it further enacted that no deputy Commissary shall exact
Demand take or receive any other Fee or reward for drawing and
Slating all Accounts than the sum of one Pound and a half of
Tobacco for each Voucher Produced and Allowed in such Accounts
and no more

[Their fees
for stating
accounts]

And be it also further enacted That no Deputy Commissary shall
Charge more than the sum of fifty Pounds of Tobacco for passing
the first Account of every Pauper Estate or Demand exact or receive
any fee or Reward for Passing any Additional Account thereof

[In Pauper
Estates]

And be it further enacted that in Case any Security hath been or
shall be taken for the Payment of any Tobacco Debt contracted or
that became due before the fifteenth day of May one Thousand
seven hundred and Forty seven to be Paid in Inspected Tobacco
such Tobacco so secured to be Paid as aforesaid shall be liable and
Subject to an Abatement or Deduction of one Fourth Part And if
any Person or Persons shall be sued on any such Security the
Plaintiff shall or may be examined and Interrogated by the Court
wherein the action shall be commenced in the same manner as is
above in this Act Provided in such Cases wherein any Security hath
been or shall be taken for the Payment of Money instead of Tobacco.

[Deduction
in debts due
before May
1747]

And be it further enacted That the Inspector at Plymouth Ware-
house in Dorchester County shall not be Obliged to Attend at the
said Warehouse more than three Days in a Week between the first
day of April and the last day of July Yearly and the Inspector
at the Warehouse at John Hollands on Bohemia more than three
days in each Week at the said Warehouse from the first day of

[Time of
Inspectors
attendance
at some
warehouses]

April till the last day of July Yearly and the Inspector at Annapolis
Warehouse shall not be Obliged to Attend more than three days
in each Week at the said Warehouse between the first day of April
and the last day of July Yearly and at the Warehouse on Hopewells
Land in St Marys County more than four days in each Week at

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