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

Liber H. S.
No. I

Quaker that he suspects and verily believes some Trashy or Un-
merchantable Tobacco is or shall be in any Patricular Tobacco
House Store House Warehouse Barn or other out House Ship or
other Vessel Inclosure or other Place whatsoever it shall and may
be Lawfull to and for such Magistrate and he is hereby Authorized
and required immediately upon such Information as aforesaid
either to raise and Compell Assistance and to Proceed himself or by

p. 500

Warrant under his Hand and Seal directed to such Informer Singly
or with others Jointly and Severally or to any other Person or
Persons Jointly and Severally thereby Authorizing and Directing
him or them to Compell Assistance and to Proceed forthwith to such
or any other such Suspected Place aforesaid and there quietly enter

[in places
suspected]

it) except such House of Place be on the Plantation where such
Trashy or Unmerchantable Tobacco shall Appear by the Oath or
Affirmation if a Quaker of the owner or of any other Credible
Person to have been made or on some other Plantation belonging to
such Person who made such Tobacco and also except Inspecting
Houses and other Houses Used by Inspectors for the convenient
Carrying on an Execution of this Act if the Person having the
Care of such Place be Present and will immediately Permit such
entry or if the Party having the care of such Place be not then

[and may,
in case &c
forcibly
enter,]

Present or being Present will not Permit such entry then to enter

Forcibly into such or any other such suspected Place and there to
Search for any such Tobacco as aforesaid and the same being
Found to take remove and carry away not only such Tobacco as the
said Search is or shall be Particularly made for but also all such
Trashy or unmerchantable Tobacco as shall be then there found to
the next Inspecting House by such Officer or Officers aforesaid and
in Case neither of the Inspectors Attending that House shall happen
to be Present then the said Magistrate or Warrant Officer or Officers
or one of them shall be and he or they are hereby Authorized and

[The tobacco
found, to be
carried to a
Warehouse]

required to Summons one or both of the said Inspetcors imme-
diately to Attend at such Warehouse and it is hereby declared
to be the duty of such Inspectors or Inspector immediately to
Attend upon such Summons Accordingly and such Inspectors or
Inspector so Attending shall Search view and Examine such To-
bacco and if upon such View Search and Examination the said
Tobacco or any Considerable Proportion thereof shall Appear to
him or them to be such as he or they are by this Act required and

[and be
examined]

Obliged as Inspectors to pass that then the same or such Part thereof
shall be by him or them in all Respects Treated dealt with and
managed as other Tobacco by them Passed is by this Act directed
the party owning or Claiming such Tobacco paying or Allowing to
the Warrant Officer or Officers after the rate of eight Pounds of
Tobacco for every hundred Pounds of such Tobacco as shall as
aforesaid pass Inspection for carrying the same to such Inspecting