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And be it Enacted that in case of the Sickness or other Inability
of any one of the said Inspectors to Attend his Duty it shall and
may be Law full for him and he is hereby required to Nominate and
appoint one other person being a planter and well skilled in Tobacco
to Act in his room during the time the said Inspector shall be
unable to Attend, the said person so Appointed, first taking the Oath
of Office and other Oaths or Affirmation if a Quaker as are directed
by the above recited Act to be taken by Inspectors and Subscribing
the Oath of Abjuration and repeating and Subscribing the Test
and the said Inspector and his Sureties shall be answerable for the
Tobacco Inspected and passed by the person so by him appointed in
the same manner as if he had personally officiated
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[In case of
an Inspec-
tor's Sick-
ness, &c. he
is to appoint,
&c.]
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And whereas it has been represented to this General Assembly
that the Salaries allowed by the above recited Act to the Inspectors
at Pomunkey and Chickamuxon Warehouses in Charles County and
at the Ware houses at Wiccocomico and on Gilbert Mackeys Plan-
tation in Saint Marys County and at Elk Ridge landing and
Indian Landing in Ann Arundel County are too small and inade-
quate to their Care and Trouble in their Office of Inspectors
Be it Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid
that for this present year and for every future year during the
Continuance of the above recited Act there shall be Allowed and
paid to each of the Inspectors at the Ware houses aforesaid the
sum of Eight hundred pounds of Tobacco over and above the
Salaries allowed to them by the Act aforesaid which said sum of
Eight hundred pounds of Tobacco to each of the Inspectors at
Pomunkey and Chickamuxon and at Wiccocomico and on Gilbert
Mackeys Plantation and at Elk Ridge Landing and Indian Landing
Warehouses aforesaid shall be Allowed and paid in the same man-
ner as Inspectors Salaries are allowed and paid by the said Act
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[Some In-
spectors Sal-
aries raised]
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And it is further represented to this General Assembly that the
Salary allowed by the above recited Act to the Inspector at Newport
Warehouse in Worcester County is too large for the Quantity of
Tobacco that comes to the said Ware house
Be it Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid
that there shall be allowed and paid to the Inspector at Newport
Warehouse who shall be Obliged to Attend the Mondays and
Tuesdays in each Week and oftner if required the sum of Three
thousand two hundred pounds of Tobacco in full for his Salary as
Inspector at said Warehouse which sum of Tobacco shall be allowed
and paid as other Inspectors Salaries are in the aforesaid Act any
thing therein Contained to the Contrary Notwithstanding
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p. 638
[Inspector's
Salary at
New-Port
lessen'd]
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