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

Liber H. S.
No. 1
[Inspectors
to be liable
for damage,
by fire,
occasioned
by their
neglect]

And to the End that Inspectors may be more Careful of the
Fire they may have Occasion for at the Warehouses to Brand
Tobacco Be it enacted that if any Warehouse in this Province shall
be hereafter burnt and it can be made Appear to have happened
by the Negligence of the Inspector or Inspectors belonging to such
Warehouse such Inspector or Inspectors shall forfeit and pay Sixteen
Thousand Pounds of Tobacco each to be recovered and Applied as
aforesaid

[Regula-
tions as to
the late
Emerson's
warehouse
in Talbot
county]

And Whereas no Land has ever been yet Surveyed or layed out
at the late Emersons now Maxwells Warehouse in Talbot County
for the use of the Publick Be it therefore enacted that the same
Justices who shall be Appointed as herein before directed to Contract
for Reparing said Warehouse shall within one Month after such
Appointment give notice to the Surveyor of the County or some
other Surveyor Sufficiently Qualified to meet them at the said
Warehouse at a Time not Less than five nor more than ten days
after such notice Given and the said Surveyor shall then Survey
and lay out one Acre of Land and for the use of the Publick Adjoin-
ing to the said Warehouse in such Manner as the said Justices shall
Direct not including the Storehouse or Salt House near the same
or going nearer to them than the Publick Utility may require bound-
ing the same at each Corner by a Good Locust Post well fixed in
the Ground and shall within a Month after making the said Survey
return one fair Plot and Certificate thereof to the Clerk of the
County to be by him Carefully kept and Another to the Proprietor
of the Land or his Agent for all which Services the said Surveyor
shall be Allowed at the next laying of the levy for the said County
the sum of one hundred Pounds of Tobacco and no more and each
Justice the sum of Sixty four Pounds of Tobacco and no more And
if either of the said Justices or the Surveyor shall Neglect his duty
therein he shall forfeit and Pay the sum of eight hundred Pounds
of Tobacco to be recovered and Applied as aforesaid

[Allowance
to justices
and in-
spectors]

p. 506

And be it enacted that every Justice who shall meet at their Re-
spective Court House and every Justice who shall be Appointed and
Attend in Order to Agree as aforesaid or Try and Adjust the Weights
as aforesaid shall be Allowed the sum of Sixty four Pounds of
Tobacco for every day he shall Necessarily Attend in Consequence
of such Appointments in the next County Levy and every Inspector
who shall meet and Attend the Justices aforesaid at the Court
House shall be Allowed thirty two Pounds of Tobacco Per day in
the next County Levy for his Attendance

[What is to
be done with
old inspected
tobacco]

And Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that
there are in divers Warehouses in this Province several Hogsheads
of Old Tobacco remaining in the way of the Inspectors and have been
lying there for many Years Past and no owners Appear to Claim
the same To remedy which Inconvenience for the future Be it enacted