Acts. 165

such County that thereby the Current Expences of each Year may
be defrayed.

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted that if any of the Warehouses herein before
mentioned or that shall be erected in Virtue of this Act shall happen
to be burnt the Loss of Tobacco sustained thereby shall be made
good and repaid to the several Persons injured by an Allowance in
the Public Levy at the next Sessions of Assembly after such Loss
And in Case of such Accident no Inspector or Inspectors shall be sued
or molested for or by Reason of any Notes or Receipts by them
given for any Tobacco burnt in the said Warehouse but shall be
altogether acquitted and discharged of and from the Payment in
the Tobacco in such Notes or Receipts mentioned any thing to the
Contrary Notwithstanding

[If Ware-
houses
should hap-
pen to be
burnt, the
Loss to be
made good.]

And be it enacted that the Inspectors hereafter mentioned shall
not be obliged to attend on any other Days between the first day of
April and the twentieth Day of August Yearly unless specially re-
quired, than the Days following that is to say the Inspector at
Worton in Kent County on the Monday of every Week the Inspector
at Langfords Bay on the Fryday and Saturday of every Week the
Inspector at Toveys Warehouse on the Fryday and Saturday of every
Week the Inspector at Chester Town on the Thursday Fryday
and Saturday of every Week the Inspector at Broad Creek in
Worcester County the Monday in every Week the Inspector at New
Port Warehouse in Worcester County Thursday Fryday and Satur-
day in every Week The Inspector at Wells's Warehouse and Bridge
Town Warehouse in Queen Anns County Monday and Tuesday in
every Week and the Inspector at Frederick Town in Cecil County
on Monday in every Week

[Time of
Attendance
of the In-
spectors of
some partic-
ular Ware-
houses.]

p. 211

And be it enacted that every Inspector and Inspectors within this
Province shall and they are hereby obliged and directed Yearly
immediately after the Conclusion of the respective Inspections and
prizing Carefully to take down the Scales Ropes and Blocks belong-
ing to the several and respective houses and lay up the same with
the Weights in some Part of the respective houses and preserve the
the same from damage and that the Property of the said Scales
Ropes Blocks and Weights shall be so far vested in the said Inspectors
as to punish any Tresspass or Felony thereof and an Inspector or
Inspectors who shall neglect to take down and lay up the Blocks
Ropes Scales and Weights as aforesaid immediately after they have
finished Prizing shall forfeit and pay the Sum of eight hundred
Pounds of Tobacco.

[Inspectors
to take care
of Weights,
Ropes,
Scales, &c.]

And whereas it has been represented to this Assembly that the
Warehouse on Broad Creek at Daniel Sherwood's Landing in Talbot
County was blown down in May seventeen hundred and seventy one
and was immediately rebuilt at private Expence and it is thought
just and reasonable that such Expence be reimbursed

[Broad-
Creek
Warehouse
being blown
down, and
rebuilt at
private
Expence; ]