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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1762-1763
Volume 58, Page 495   View pdf image (33K)
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Acts. 495


the Proprietor Guardian Husband or Attorney of or any other
Person concerned in any Warehouse shall refuse or Neglect to
make such Buildings Additions repairs or Other Necessary Con-
veniencies as shall or may be Wanting at any other times of the
Year and such as the said Justices shall direct it shall and may be
lawfull for the said Justices and they are hereby Required to have
the same Done at the expence of the County and the Justices of such
County shall receive so much of the rent of the said Warehouse of
the Inspectors as will reimburse the County the Charges of such
Buildings Additions and Repairs And if upon Application of the
Inspectors to the Justices aforesaid for Building enlarging or Repair-
ing any Warehouses Wharfs Prizes Cranes and other Conveniencies
such Justices shall refuse or delay to do their duty therein every
Justice so Neglecting or refusing shall forfeit eight hundred Pounds
of Tobacco to be recovered in the County Court with Costs by Action
of Debt or Information in the name of the respective Inspector or
Inspectors and to be Applied to the use of such Warehouse or
Warehouses

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further enacted that when and as often as a new In-
spector or Inspectors shall be elected and Chosen in the room and
Stead of the Inspector or Inspectors who served at the same Ware-
house the Preceeding Year That the said new Inspector or In-
spectors shall within ten days after he or they shall be Qualified to
serve as an Inspector or Inspectors According to the Directions in
this Act make out two Lists of all Hogsheads of Tobacco then in
the same Warehouse being (which Tobacco the old Inspector or
Inspectors are hereby Obliged and directed to deliver well Nailed
lined and fit for Shipping to the new Inspector or Inspectors) de-
scribing the Marks Numbers Gross Tare and Nett Weight Stamped

[Where new
inspectors
are chosen,
lists of
tobacco to
be delivered
by the old
ones,]

and marked thereon and sign a receipt at the foot of each List of
such Hogshead received from the Old Inspector or Inspectors which
Lists so as aforesaid given with the receipts thereto Signed shall be
delivered to the Old Inspector or Inspectors the one of which Lists
shall be by him or them lodged with the Clerk of the County to
be by him kept in his Office under the Penalty of eight Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco to each Inspector Neglecting to make such
Lists and the same Penalty on the Old Inspector or Inspectors who
shall Neglect to lodge the same with the County Clerk to be recovered
and Applied as herein before directed and the new Inspector or
Inspectors is and are hereby Declared to be Answerable to the
Owner of any Notes mentioned and Described in such Lists so far
as to Produce the same Hogshead or Hogsheads of Tobacco be-
longing to any Owner and likewise that the said New Inspector or

[for which
they are to
give a re-
ceipt to be
lodged with
the county
clerk.]

p. 505

[Penalty on
old inspec-
tors for
neglect of
their duty]

Inspectors shall be liable for and Answerable to the Old Inspector
or Inspectors for all Damage that shall happen to such Tobacco
mentioned in the Lists aforesaid through his or their Negligence
during the Time of his or their Serving as Inspector or Inspectors

[New in-
spectors to
be liable for
damage]



 
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