168 Assembly Proceedings, November 16— December 23, 1773.

Liber R. G.
1773

or Debts nor to prohibit any Person to put or take on Board any
Vessel Hogsheads Casks or Cases of Tobacco to be Water-born to
any Warehouse appointed by this Act so as the same be not Carried
out of the Naval Officers District wherein the said Tobacco shall be
made nor to prohibit the Owner of any Tobacco to transport his
Crops or any Part thereof in Hogsheads Casks or Cases from one
Place to another for the better handling and managing thereof nor
any Purchaser of Tobacco from bringing the same by Water to be
repacked sorted stemmed or Prized before the same be Carried to

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any Warehouse so as such last mentioned Tobacco to be packed in
Hogsheads Casks or Cases

[Skippers
of Vessels,
&c. carry-
ing To-
bacco, to be
sworn.]

And be it enacted that it shall not be lawful for any Skipper of
any Vessel to take any Tobacco except as before excepted) from
any Warehouse within this Province in Order to Carry the same on
Board any Vessel for Exportation before such Skipper shall make
Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker before the Inspector or Inspectors
of such House or Houses who are hereby authorized and required
to administer the same under the Penalty of eight hundred Pounds'
of Tobacco for every Neglect that all such Tobacco which he shall
from Time to Time take on Board such Vessel he the said Skipper
will with all Opportunity of Wind and Weather convey or Cause to
be Conveyed on Board such Vessel to which it shall be directed by
the Owner or Owners thereof to be loaded for Exportation and that
he the said Skipper will not take nor suffer to be taken by any Per-
son whatsoever any Tobacco out of such Hogshead or Hogsheads
and that he will not willfully damage or suffer to be damaged such
Tobacco whilst the same shall be under his Care and Management

[Penalty on
refusing to
take the
Oath.]

and if any Skipper as aforesaid shall refuse or delay taking the
Oath (or Affirmation if a Quaker) aforesaid in Manner and form
aforesaid such Skipper for every Hogshead of Tobacco taken on
Board contrary to the Intention of this Act shall forfeit and pay
the Sum of three thousand two hundred Pounds of Tobacco

[Masters of
Ships to
lodge Three
fair Mani-
fests, sworn
to, with the
Naval
Officers.]

and be it enacted that the Master of every Vessel wherein Tobacco
shall be laden for Exportation shall at the Time of clearing deliver
to the Naval Officer three fair Manifests of all the Tobacco on
Board his Vessel expressing the Marks and Numbers of every Hogs-
head and the Tare and nett Weight stamped thereon the Person
by whom shipped and from what Warehouse and shall make Oath
or Affirmation if a Quaker thereto and that the same is a just and
true Account of the Marks Numbers Tare and nett Weight of each
respective Hogshead as the same was taken down by the Person or
Persons appointed by him to take the same before the said Tobacco
was stowed away and no Vessel shall be cleared by the naval Officer
before he shall have received such Lists and Manifests one of which
said Manifests shall by the said Naval Officer be annexed to such
Masters Certificate or Clearance to the End the same may be de-