Acts. 447

Commander in Chief of this Province for the Time being may by
Warrant under his Hand constitute and appoint all or any of the
said Officers who shall have the like Power and Authority as if they
or either of them had been by the said Commissioners regularly
nominated and appointed

Liber H. S.
No. I

And be it further Enacted That all Wheat Flour bolted and
brought to the said Town for Exportation from and after the first
Day of September next shall by the Bolters thereof be made mer-
chantable and of due Fineness without any mixture of coarser or
other Flour and well packed in good strong well seasoned Casks with
the Tare thereof marked thereon

[All Flour
for Exporta-
tion, after
the 1st of
Sept. to be
merchant-
able, &c.]

And be it further Enacted That if any Person or Persons shall
put a ffalse or wrong Tare on any Cask of Flour more than two
Pounds Weight to the Disadvantage of the Purchaser such Person
or Persons shall forfeit and pay for every Cask wrongfully or
falsely tared as aforesaid the sum of ten shillings Current Money
and the Inspector upon Suspicion or upon the Request of the Buyer
shall uncase or unpack any such Cask of Flour in Order to Try
the tare thereof and if the said Cask or Casks be found to be tared
more than two Pounds less than the true Weight the Bolter thereof
shall pay the Charge and Expence of unpacking or uncasing and
repacking or recasing over and above the sum of ten shillings Current
Money for each Cask as aforesaid but if the Weight of the same is
not more than two Pounds less than the Tare thereon marked then
the Officer or Purchaser at whose Request such Tryal be made shall
pay the Costs of unpacking or uncasing and repacking or recasing.

[Persons
putting false
Tare on any
cask of
Flour, more
than 2 lb to
the Disad-
vantage of
the Pur-
chaser, to
forfeit 10 s.]

And be it further Enacted That all and every Cask of Flour
brought to the said Town to be from thence laden and shipped for
Exportation shall be submitted to the View and Examination of the
Inspector aforesaid so as aforesaid nominated and appointed who
shall search and try the same by boring the Head and piercing it
through with an Instrument to be contrived for that Purpose in
Order to Prove whether it be honestly and well packed as also to
enable him to Judge of it's Goodness and shall afterwards plug up
the Hole And if the said Officer shall Judge the same to be mer-
chantable according to the Directions of this present Act he shall
be and everysuch Cask of Flour on the Quarter with the Word

[All Flour
brought for
Exportation,
to be in-
spected and
branded and
the Quality
distin-
guished]
p. 694

Baltimore with a publick Brand Mark to be Provided for that Pur-
pose and shall also brand and mark the Degree of Fineness which
he shall on Inspection determine the said Flour to be of which Degree
shall be distinguished as follows to wit Superfine, Fine, Midlings,
Ship-stuff; for which Trouble he the said Inspector shall have and
receive of the Owner of such Flour the sum of one penny and a half
of a Penny for each Cask and no more
And be it further Enacted That the said Inspector of Flour shall
not brand any Flour which shall prove on Examination thereof to be

[Inspector's
Fee 1 1/2 d. per
Cask]
[Unmer-
chantable
Flour shall
not be
branded; but
mark'd with
a broad
Arrow on
the Bilge,
&c.]