Acts. 169

livered to the Chief Officer of the customs in such Port or Place
where such Vessel shall unlade and one of the other two of the said
Manifests shall by the said naval Officer be transmitted to the said
Chief Officer of the Customs by the next convenient Opportunity
and the third kept in his Office

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted that if the Skipper of any Vessel or other Per-
son or Persons to whom the Care and Management thereof shall be
entrusted shall land or put on shore any Hogshead Cask or Case of
Tobacco put on Board the same to be carried to any Public Ware-
house at any other Place or Places than the Warehouse or Ware-
houses by this Act appointed for the Reception and Inspection of
Tobacco or at some one of them or the Wharfs or other Landing
to such Warehouse or Warehouses belonging or shall put the same
on Board any other Vessel or shall suffer the same to be done so as
the same be not delivered at some of the said Public Warehouses
without Fraud or Imbezzlement or shall open any Hogshead Cask or
Case of Tobacco so as aforesaid waterborn and landed and take
thereout any Tobacco before the same be viewed by some Inspector
or Inspectors according to the Directions of this Act or after the
same has been viewed shall fraudulently open any Hogshead Cask
or Case and take thereout any Tobacco every such Offence shall be
adjudged Felony and the Offender or Offenders shall suffer by
Whipping and Pilloring and paying fourfold as in Case of Felony.

[No To-
bacco to be
relanded but
at Inspec-
tion Houses;
Nor to be
taken out of
the Cask by
any Skipper,
&c. before
inspected:
nor taken
out fraudu-
lently after
Inspection.]
p. 215

Provided always that Nothing herein before contained shall be
Construed to prohibit the Landing or Putting on shore any Hogs-
head Cask or Case of Tobacco out of any Vessel so as such Landing
be really and bona fide for the Preservation of the Tobacco laden
in such Vessel and that the same be with all convenient Speed carried
thereafter to the Warehouse or Vessel as the case shall be to which
it was designed without Imbezzlement.

[Proviso in
Case of Dis-
tress of
Weather.]

Provided also that if by any Accident or Negligence of the Master

or Skipper of any Vessel any Tobacco which hath been viewed and

stamped shall in its Carriage to the Vessel in which it is intended
to be exported receive so much Damage as that the Master of such
Vessel will not receive it on Board every Hogshead Cask or Case
of Tobacco so damnified shall with all convenient Speed be Carried
to some Warehouse appointed by this Act and there lodged until
the Owner of such Tobacco or Master of the Vessel in which it
was damaged shall have so seperated the same and then the remain-
ing good Tobacco shall be stamped by the Inspector or Inspectors

[Tobacco
damaged in

its Carriage
to the Ship,
may be re-
landed, sepa-
rated, and
repacked.]

attending such Warehouse without Fee or Reward
And be it enacted that if any Tobacco shall be brought to any of
the said Warehouses the said Inspectors or one of them in Case
of Sickness or other Disability where two are appointed to attend
such House or the Inspector if one only is appointed to attend after
he or they hath or have viewed examined and weighed the said

[Notes to be
given by In-
spectors for
Tobacco
brought to
the Ware-
houses for
Payment of
Debts:]