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

Liber R. G.

1773

the same Penalties as are herein before inflicted for shipping off
and taking on Board any Ship or other Vessel Tobacco not inspected
viewed and stamped according to the Directions of this Act

[Inspectors
to nail up
the Tobacco
as soon as
inspected.]

And be it enacted that the several Inspectors shall be and are
hereby obliged whenever they shall have inspected a Hogshead or
Hogsheads of Tobacco to Case and nail up the same in good Order
and according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act imme-
diately after inspecting the same

[Transfer
Tobacco,
not received
and marked,
to be sold
annually by
Auction.]

And be it enacted that the Owner of any Transfer notes may at any
Time receive and mark Hogsheads of Tobacco for satisfying such
Notes and the Inspector or Inspectors shall take in his or their former
Notes and deliver Crop Notes and Receipts for such Hogsheads and
shall be answerable for the safe keeping thereof in the same Manner
as they are for Crop Tobacco but the Persons receiving such Hogs-
heads shall pay to the Inspector Sixty Pounds of Tobacco for the
Inspection and Nails for every Hogshead that is to say thirty two
Pounds of Tobacco upon the Eastern Shore and thirty six Pounds
of Tobacco upon the Western Shore at the Time of taking such
Crop Notes or Receipts and twenty eight Pounds of Tobacco on the
Eastern shore and twenty four Pounds of Tobacco on the Western
Shore when the Tobacco shall be delivered out And the Inspectors
shall sell all Transfer Tobacco which shall not be so received and
marked on the second Day of Holding the Court if fair Weather if
not on the next fair Day of the Court of their Respective Counties
in the Month of November Yearly by Public Auction in single
Hogsheads and not otherwise and shall pay the Money arising by
such Sale at the Average Price of the Sale of the Tobacco belonging
to each House in Satisfaction of their Notes from Time to Time
to the Proprietors thereof making their Demand under the same
Penalty as is inflicted for not paying Inspectors Notes

[How to
prevent
Fraud in
selling
only part
of the
Transfer
Tobacco.]
p. 222

And for preventing Fraud by selling only Part of such Tobacco
not received as aforesaid Be it enacted that all Inspectors shall in ten
Days before November Court in each respective County yearly Lodge
with the Respective County Clerks where they shall Officiate an
Account upon Oath of all the Transfer Tobacco at that Time in
their hands before the same shall be exposed to Sale and all Inspec-
tors shall keep a just and true Account of the Tobacco gained or
saved upon the Allowances made for Cask or Shrinkage of transfer
Tobacco and if any Tobacco shall be so gained or saved shall exhibit
an Account thereof upon Oath (or Affirmation if a Quaker) in the
same manner as is before directed concerning transfer Tobacco not
received and shall also sell the Tobacco so gained and saved in the
same Manner as is before directed for the Sale of transfer Tobacco
and shall account for the Money arising by such Sale to the Justices
aforesaid and no Inspector shall Convert any Tobacco so gained or