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

Liber R. G.
1773

[Inspectors
to account
annually.]

to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act and that for all Matters
relating to the Expence of putting this Act in Execution and the
Profits to be raised thereby the several Inspectors shall Annually
lay before the respective Justices fair and distinct Accounts of the
Profits and Loss relating to their respective Offices on Oath or Af-
firmation if a Quaker and the Justices aforesaid shall settle and
adjust such Accounts and that if the Profits of the said Warehouses
shall over and above bear the Expences of this Act that then the
Overplus shall be applied to defray the Charge of the County.

[Owners of
Warehouses
or Inspec-
tors not to
make any
private Use
thereof.]

And be it enacted that the Owner or Proprietor or the Inspector
or Inspectors of any Warehouse or Warehouses shall not on any
Pretence whatsoever make, any Private Use thereof or suffer the
same to be done whilst the same shall be under Rent to the Public
under the Penalty of one thousand Pounds of Tobacco nor shall the
said Inspectors keep any horses Cattle Sheep or hogs in any the

[Inspectors
not to keep
Horses &c.
in Ware-
houses,
&c.]

Public Warehouses nor shall the said Inspectors or any other Per-
son bringing any Tobacco to any Warehouse according to the
Directions of this Act suffer or allow their horses to be at large
upon the Land appointed for such Warehouses or the Lands adjoin-
ing thereto under the Penalty of forty Pounds of Tobacco to the
Owner of the Land to be recovered by him before any one Justice
of the County nor shall any person hunt on the Lands appointed

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for any Public Warehouse under Penalty of two hundred Pounds
of Tobacco to the Owner to be recovered as aforesaid

[Inspectors
to account
every
November
Court with
the Jus-
tices.]

And be it enacted that all Inspectors shall annually in November
Court after the Sale of the Transfer Tobacco and one day before
the laying of the County Levy account with the Justices of the re-
spective Counties upon Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker for all
Monies and Tobaccoes received or which ought to be received by
them by Virtue of this Act except the Money and Tobacco paid for
Nails In which Account they shall be allowed their Salaries the Rent
for Warehouses Purchase of Tobacco Hogsheads and other neces-
sary Disbursements in Pursuance of this Act and shall and are
hereby obliged to pay to the Owners or Proprietors for the Rent
of their Warehouses the same Proportion in Money and Tobacco
as they shall on the whole receive in that Year on Account of the

[Justices to
levy a suf-
ficient
Quantity of
Tobacco at
their
November
Courts
Yearly to
discharge
the Claims
of Inspec-
tors.]

said Warehouses
And if it shall happen that at the Laying of the said County Levy
there shall be any Claim or Claims arising by the Salary of an
Inspector or Inspectors County Clerk or other Annual Charge from
any Inspection House or Houses within any County in this Province
it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of such County respec-
tively and they are hereby directed and required at the November
Court of such County Yearly to assess and levy a Quantity of To-
bacco sufficient to discharge the same on the taxable Inhabitants of