Acts. 177

Use of one or more of their Prizes for the repacking and Prizing
such Tobacco, And if there shall be several Hogsheads of Tobacco
belonging to several Owners to be picked repacked and prized at any
Public Warehouse the Owner or other Person bringing the same

Liber R. G.
1773

whose Tobacco shall be first viewed and refused shall be first per-
mitted and allowed to make Use of such Prize or Prizes and the
same Rule shall be observed in the Prizing all Tobacco which shall
be picked repacked and prized as aforesaid And for all Tobacco
repacked and prized by the Owner thereof or his Servants and

[Tobacco
first brought
to be first
sorted.]

Slaves there shall be paid to the Inspectors thereof only twenty eight
Pounds of Tobacco on the Eastern Shore and twenty four Pounds
of Tobacco on the Western Shore for stamping and for all Tobacco
repacked and prized by the Inspectors fifty six Pounds of Tobacco
for each Hogshead and also four Pounds of Tobacco for Nails
unless the Proprietor shall provide Nails And no Inspector shall
take or Convert to his own Use or otherwise dispose of any Draughts
or Samples of Freight or Crop Tobacco but the same if fit to pass
shall be Carefully put into the Hogshead out of which it was drawn
under the Penalty of forfeiting One hundred and sixty Pounds of
Tobacco for every Draught so taken away And all and every In-

[Twenty-
eight
Pounds of
Tobacco on
the Eastern
and 24 on
the Western
Shore to be
paid the
Inspectors.]
p. 221
[Samples, if
good, to be
replaced.]

spector or Inspectors if required shall alter the Mark of any Hogs-
head of Tobacco for which they have before given a Receipt and
for preventing Confusion and Mistakes shall keep a Waste Book
in which shall be Entered the Marks and numbers of all Hogs-
heads of Tobacco received by them and also the Marks and Num-
bers thereof when the same shall be delivered out by them And all
Inspectors when required shall be obliged to prize any Hogshead of
Crop Tobacco under nine hundred and fifty Pounds Nett Weight
so as to make it up that Weight but shall receive the same fee upon
such Hogshead as for transfer Tobacco and may make the Lawful
Abatements for the Tobacco Prized in And where any Tobacco
shall be brought to any Warehouse by the Overseer of the Owner

[Inspectors
to keep
Books of
Marks and
Numbers.]

thereof the Inspector or Inspectors shall give Notes and Receipts
in the Name of the Owner which Notes and Receipts shall be de-
livered to the Owner or to his Order

[Notes to be
given in the
Name of the
Owner.]

And be it further enacted that any light Hogshead or Parcel of
Tobacco after the same shall be passed at any Public Warehouse
and not Stamped shall and may be delivered out by the Inspector or
Inspectors to the Owner of their notes and such Tobacco may be
Carried away for the better sorting and Stemming the same Provided
the Person receiving such Tobacco shall pay for the Inspection
thereof after the Rate of fifty six Pounds of Tobacco for every nine
hundred and fifty Pounds Weight and so in Proportion for a greater
or less Quantity and that such Tobacco shall not be shipped off until
it shall be again inspected passed and stamped for which the In-
spector or Inspectors shall again receive the established fees under

[Light
Hogsheads
of Tobacco,
not stamped
may be de-
livered by
Inspectors to
the owners
of their
Notes, but
not shipped.]