Acts. 175

Box or other Package of Tobacco stamped with a forged or Coun-
terfeit Stamp or Demand Tobacco of any Inspector or Inspectors
upon any such forged Counterfeit or altered Note or Receipt know-
ing such Note or Receipt or such Stamp to be forged Counterfeit
or altered or shall put or pack into any Hogshead Cask or Case of
Tobacco stamped by any Inspector any Tobacco whatsoever or shall
draw or take out any Stave Plank or Heading Board of any Hogs-
head Cask or Case of Tobacco after such Hogshead Cask or Case
of Tobacco shall be delivered out from any of the Public Ware-
houses aforesaid every Person so offending and being thereof Con-
victed by due Course of Law shall receive thirty nine Lashes on his
or her bare Back and stand in the Pillory for the Space of two
Hours And that in all such Cases the Testimony of the Inspector or
Inspectors with other strong and corroborating Circumstances shall
and may be admitted as Evidence

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it enacted that if any Inspector or Inspectors Notes or
Receipts be casually lost mislaid or destroyed the Person or Persons
entituled to receive the Tobacco by Virtue of any such note or
Receipt shall make Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker before a Justice
of the Peace of the County where the same is payable to the Number
or Date of every such Note or Receipt to whom and where payable
and for what Quantity of Tobacco the same was given and that
such Note or Receipt is lost mislaid or destroyed and that he she or
they at the Time such Note or Receipt was lost mislaid or destroyed
was lawfully entituled to receive the Tobacco therein mentioned and

shall take a Certificate thereof from such Justice and upon producing

the Certificate to the Inspector or Inspectors who signed such Note
or Receipt and lodging the same with them the said Inspector or
Inspectors shall pay and deliver to the Person obtaining such Cer-
tificate the Tobacco for which such Notes or Receipts were given
if the same or any Part thereof shall not have been before by him
or them paid by Virtue of the said Notes or receipts and shall be
thereby discharged from all Actions Suits and Demands on Account
of such Notes or receipts And if any Person shall be convicted of

[Inspectors
Notes or
Receipts
being lost,
mislaid, or
destroyed,
in what
Manner the
Tobacco con-
tained
therein may
be recov-
ered.]

making a false Oath or Affirmation or producing a forged Certificate
in the Case aforesaid he shall forfeit and pay to the Party grieved
two hundred and forty Pounds of Tobacco for every hundred
Pounds of Tobacco contained in such Certificate and so in Propor-
tion for a less Quantity and upon Conviction shall suffer as in Case
of Wilful and Corrupt Perjury.

p. 220
[Penalty and
Punishment
in Case of
false swear-
ing and
Forgery.]

And be it enacted that all Tobacco due or to grow due and pay-
able for such Public and County Levies and Parochial Charges as
aforesaid which shall not be discharged and paid in Gold and Silver
as by this Act is directed shallbe paid and discharged in the follow-
ing Manner that is to say the Public and County Levies in any of
the Warehouses within the County on which the same shall be levied
14

[Public and
County Lev-
ies, and pa-
rochial
charges
where to be
paid.]