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No. 37 An Act empowering the County Courts to settle with Persons who
were formerly Inspectors of Tobacco.

Whereas by the Expiration of the Act entitled an Act for amend-
ing the Staple of Tobacco for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's
Customs & for the Limitation of Officers Fees the Power of the
County Courts to settle the Accounts of Inspectors ceases, whereby
the Public in many Instances are deprived of the Balance due from
Inspectors and in others the Inspectors remain unpaid.

Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor and

Liber R. G.

1771
p. 169

[Preamble.]

the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same, that it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the
several County Courts within this Province & they are hereby re-
quired at their next County Courts to call before them the Persons
who were Inspectors of Tobacco in the Year seventeen hundred and
seventy in their respective Counties who are hereby obliged to attend
and to settle with & adjust the Accounts of the said Inspectors &
such Inspectors are hereby empowered to make publick Sale during
the Sitting of the County Court of any Tobaccoes inspected by them
in the Year aforesaid which they might or could have sold in Virtue
of the Act aforesaid and where any Sum of Money appears to be
due from the said Inspectors the said Justices shall receive & apply
the same to the Use of their respective Counties and where any
Sum of Money shall appear on such Settlement to be due to any
Inspector the said Justices respectively are hereby authorized and
required to pay to the said Inspectors such Sum out of any Monies
that shall then be in their Hands & if no Money then in Hand such
Justices shall at their next November Courts levy any Sum or Sums
so due on the Taxable Inhabitants of their respective Counties to
and for the Use of such Inspectors.

[Justices of
County
Courts to
settle with
Persons who
were Inspec-
tors of
Tobacco in
1770, &c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly, November 29.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order,
Jn° Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho.

On Behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I Will this be a Law.
Rob.t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Nov.^r 29.^th
1771. Read & assented to.
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

The Great Seal
in Wax appendant