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

Liber R. G.

1773

Tobacco according to the Directions of this Act shall be obliged to
deliver to the Persons bringing the same as many Notes under the
hands of the said Inspectors or Inspector as shall be required
for the full Quantity received by them or him in which shall be
expressed whether the Tobacco so received be stemmed leaf or

[To be cur-
rent and
transfer-
able.]

coloured which Notes shall be current and received in Payment
and Satisffaction of all Contracts for Tobacco and Judgments
and Dues on Contracts for Tobacco and all Public Levies and
all County Levies assessed by Virtue of the Act entituled an Act
impowering the Commissioners of the County Courts to levy and
assess Tobacco to defray the necessary Charges of their Coun-
ties and Parishes and also of all Parish Assessments made in
Virtue of any Application by the Vestrymen and Church War-
dens of any Parish within this Province in the County where the
Tobacco shall be inspected according to the Species expressed in
the Note and shall be transferrable from one to another in all such
Tobacco Payments and shall be payed and satisfied by the Inspector
or Inspectors who signed the same upon demand and for every Hogs-
head of Tobacco brought to any Public Warehouse for the Dis-

p. 216
[Allowance
of 4 per
Cent, for
Tobacco
brought in
good Casks.]

charge of any Public or private Debt in good Cask of such Dimen-
sions as herein after expressed there shall be allowed by the Inspector
or Inspectors thereof to the Person bringing the same after the
rate of four Pounds of Tobacco for every hundred Pounds of
Tobacco therein contained after the same shall be viewed and
passed and the said Inspector or Inspectors shall and are hereby
obliged to make every Hogshead by him or them paid away in

[Weight.]

Discharge of any Note by him or them given as aforesaid to con-
tain nine hundred and fifty Pounds of Tobacco at the least exclusive
of the Allowance for the Cask and for every such Hogshead of
Tobacco by him or them paid away well lined and nailed fit for
Shipping there shall be paid by the Person receiving such Hogs-
head fifty six Pounds of Tobacco for inspecting and four Pounds
of Tobacco for Nails which said Sum of four Pounds of Tobacco

[Allowance
to Inspec-
tors for
Nails, &c.]

the Inspector may retain in his hands to reimburse the Expence of
providing Nails And the Person demanding or receiving Tobacco
in Discharge of Notes as aforesaid shall allow to the Inspector or
Inspectors four Pounds of Tobacco per Centum for the Cask and
two Pounds of Tobacco for every hundred Pounds of Tobacco

[Shrink-
age.]

contained in such Notes and so proportionably for a greater or
lesser Quantity for Shrinkage and wasting if the said Tobacco be
paid at any Time within two Months after the Date of the Note
given for the same and one Pound of Tobacco for every hundred
Pounds of Tobacco for every Month the same shall be unpaid
after the said Allowance so as such Allowance for Shrinkage and
Wasting does not exceed in the whole six Pounds of Tobacco for
every hundred Pounds of Tobacco and if any Inspector or Inspectors