Acts. 155

one Person out of the two recommended to him by any one Vestry
and Churchwardens to be Inspector or Inspectors as the Case may
require and where it shall happen that two Warehouses under one
and the same Inspection shall be in different Parishes there the
Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time being shall and
may choose and appoint two Persons to be Inspectors in Man-
ner aforesaid to wit one of the Nomination and Recommenda-
tion of each Parish to execute the Office of Inspectors at Such
Warehouses

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted that if any Person who shall be appointed by
his Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time
being to be an Inspector shall refuse to take upon himself the Exe-
cution of the said Office or Duty such Person so refusing shall be
and is hereby obliged and directed to signify such his Refusal in
Writing under his hand directed to the Clerk of the Council for the
Time being and shall within ten Days from this Receipt nf his

Warrant deliver such Writing to the Sheriff of the County or his
Deputy where such Person shall reside under the Penalty of four
hundred Pounds of Tobacco and the said Sheriff shall and he is
hereby obliged to forward the same in the like Manner that Public

[Inspectors,
if they re-
fuse, to give
Notice in
Ten Days.]

Letters indorsed for the Lord Proprietary's Service by the Laws of
this Province are to be forwarded and every Inspector or Inspectors
to be chosen and Accepting the Office shall not resign his said Office
or refuse to act therein until the first Day of November yearly

p. 201

And be it enacted that where the same Persons are by any of the
Vestries again rechosen to serve as Inspectors for the Year next
following they and every of the said Inspectors shall if they incline
to serve signify their Acceptance thereof within ten Days next after
such Time of their being so rechosen which Signification shall be
made in the same Manner as Persons appointed by his Excellency
the Governor to be Inspectors are by this Act before directed to
signify their Refusal to Accept of such Office

[In Case of
being re-
chosen.]

And to prevent the Inconvenience that may arise from the Sale
of the office of Inspector

Be it further enacted that if any Person or Persons nominated
and recommended by the Vestry and appointed by the Governor or
Commander in Chief for the Time being to be an Inspector or
Inspectors within this Province shall take or receive any Sums of
Money or Tobacco or any other thing or any Reward or Gratuity
to the Intent that he or they shall refuse to act under such Nomina-
tion and Appointment such Person so taking or receiving any thing
to the Intent aforesaid shall forfeit and pay double the Value of the
Sum of Money or Tobacco or other thing so taken or received and
the Person or Persons paying giving or delivering or offering to pay
give or deliver any Sum or Sums of Money or Tobacco or other
thing to the Intent aforesaid shall forfeit and pay double the Value

[Persons re-
ceiving a
gratuity for
refusing to
act as In-
spectors, to
forfeit dou-
ble the
Sum.]