156 Assembly Proceedings, November 16-December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

of the Sum of Money or Tobacco or other thing so given or de-
livered or offered to be given or delivered and shall forever be
disabled to be an Inspector within this Province.

[In case of
the Death,
&c. of an
Inspector.]

And be it further enacted that in Case of the Death Refusal or
Removal of any Inspector or Inspectors the Governor or Commander
in Chief for the Time being shall and may nominate and appoint
any other Person or Persons mentioned in the last Recommendation
to be sent him as aforesaid from such Vestrymen and Churchwardens
for any Inspection where a Vacancy shall or may happen as aforesaid
to succeed any Inspector or Inspectors as aforesaid refusing removed
or dead but should it so happen that by Death Refusals or Removals

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there should not be Persons enough left in the Nominations of the
respective Vestrymen and Churchwardens so as aforesaid to be trans-
mitted for the Appointment of the Governor or Commander in Chief
then and in such Case the Vestrymen and Churchwardens of any
Parish or Parishes where this shall happen to be the Case shall im-
mediately meet as aforesaid and elect two or four as the Case shall
require for Inspectors and as before transmit Certificates of such
Nomination and Recommendation to the Sheriff of the said County
who shall forthwith transmit the same to the Clerk of the Council
to be as before laid by him before the Governor or Commander in
Chief out of which the said Governor or Commander in Chief shall
appoint a sufficient Number according to the true Intent and Mean-
ing of this Act to serve as Inspector or Inspectors respectively in
Pursuance of the Recommendation aforesaid

[Proviso.]

Provided always and it is true Intent and Meaning of this Act that
though the Vestrymen and Churchwardens are to elect Inspectors
annually yet where they elect again a former Inspector or Inspectors
they shall continue such without any new Appointment by the Gov-
ernor or Commander in Chief

[Vestries
not to ne-
glect to
meet, to
nominate
and recom-
mend In-
spectors.]

And be it further enacted that every Vestrymen and Church-
warden who shall neglect or refuse (not being prevented by Sickness
or some unavoidable Accident) to meet according to the Directions
of this Act to nominate and recommend Inspectors or who being
so met shall omit neglect or refuse to nominate and recommend
Inspectors whereby Inspectors shall not be nominated and recom-
mended in Pursuance of this Act shall forfeit and pay eight hundred
pounds of Tobacco for every such offence

[Proviso]

Provided always that no Vestrymen or Churchwarden who shall
be an Inspector shall have or be allowed so long as he shall be an
Inspector any Vote in the Nomination or Recommendation of any
other Inspector or Inspectors and that where any Person or Persons
shall be appointed in Pursuance of such Nomination and Recommen-
dation as already mentioned and shall afterwards and again be
nominated and recommended to be an Inspector or Inspectors for