Acts. 161

house or Warehouses under their Charge from the first Day of
January next till the first day of April then next And every Inspec-
tion afterwards from the first day of November till the first day
of April as often as required and Constantly from the said first Day
of April to the twentieth day of August Yearly except Sundays
and the Holy Days observed at Christmas Easter and Whitsuntide
or when hindered by Sickness or in such Cases wherein this Act
shall otherwise provide) and afterwards they or one of them
shall Constantly attend at the same (except on Sundays to deliver
out the Tobacco for Exportation untill all the Tobacco remaining
there the said twentieth day of August shall be so delivered and

Liber R. G.

1773

every Inspector neglecting to attend as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay
to the Party grieved sixty Pounds of Tobacco to be recovered with
Cost before one Justice of the Peace for every Neglect or shall be
liable to the Action upon the Case of the said Party grieved to recover
all Damages which he or she shall have sustained by Occasion of any
such Neglect together with his or her full Costs at the Election of such

[Penalty for
neglect.]

p. 207

Party and every Inspector shall uncase and break every Hogshead
Cask and Case of Tobacco brought to be inspected as aforesaid and if
the Inspector or Inspectors (where one only is appointed) by this Act
shall be of Opinion that the same is sound well Conditioned Mer-
chantable and Clear of Trash then such Tobacco shall be weighed
in Scales with Weights of the Lawful Standard and the Hogshead
Cask or Case shall also be weighed by the said Inspector or Inspectors
and stamped and marked with a hot Iron on the Head and Bulge in
the Presence of the said Inspector or Inspectors as the Case shall
be with the Name of the Warehouse at which the Tobacco therein
Contained shall be viewed and inspected as aforesaid and also with
the Tare of the Hogshead Cask or Case and Quantity of Nett To-
bacco therein Contained but if at any house for which by this Act
two Inspectors are appointed the said Inspectors shall at any Time

[The Duty
of Inspec-
tors.]

disagree Concerning the Quality of any Tobacco brought for their
Inspection to any Warehouse under their Charge they shall without
Delay or as soon as Conveniently may be Call from the next
adjacent Inspection another Inspector who shall determine the Differ-
ence and pass or reject such Tobacco and when any Inspector shall

[What is to
be done
when In-
spectors dis-
agree.]

bring his own Tobacco to the Warehouse whereof he is Inspector
the same shall not be passed or stamped unless it be first viewed
examined and found good and qualified as aforesaid by the other
Inspector there attending or by one or both the Inspectors as the
Case shall require from the next adjacent Inspection and in Case
that any Inspector shall bring his own Tobacco to the Warehouse
whereof he is the only Inspector the same shall be first viewed and
examined as aforesaid by the Inspectors or Inspector of the next
adjacent Inspection

and be it enacted that it shall and may be lawful in Case of the

[Inspectors
own to-
bacco.]