Acts. 181

or Inspectors and their Proceedings shall be in a summary Way and
if they adjudge any Inspector or Inspectors to be removed the said
Justices in such Case shall with all Convenient Speed notify the
same to the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time being
Provided always that the Inspector or Inspectors to be Complained
against be summoned to appear and make his or their Defence but
in Case he or they will not appear his Non Appearance shall be taken
for a Confession without some reasonable Excuse be given for
the same.

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it further enacted that it shall not be lawful for any In-

spector or Inspectors to inspect or pass any Hogshead or Parcel of
Tobacco at any Time between the twentieth day of August and the
first day of November yearly unless such Hogshead or Parcel of To-
bacco be brought to and left at the said Inspection House on or before
the said twentieth Day of August Yearly And that if any Inspector
or Inspectors shall presume to inspect or pass any Hogshead or
Parcel of Tobacco between the said twentieth day of August and
the first Day of November yearly (except as aforesaid) he or they
so offending shall forfeit and pay one hundred and sixty Pounds
of Tobacco for every Hundred Pounds of Tobacco so by him or
them inspected

[Inspectors

not to pass
any Tobacco
between the
20th of Au-
gust and 1st
of Novem-
ber, except
brought be-
for the 20th
of August.
Penalty.]

And be it further enacted that the Sum of three hundred and
twenty Pounds of Tobacco per Annum for each Inspection respec-
tively for Printing and Delivering a sufficient Number of Books
Notes and Manifests for the Inspectors of each Inspection within
their Counties shall be allowed by the several and Respective County
Courts at the Laying of their County Levy to the Printer who shall
print and deliver the same

[Allowance
to the
Printer for
Books and
Notes.]

And be it enacted that in all Payments which shall or may be
made under or by Direction of this Act and also in Payment of all
Charges attending the Inspection or Delivery out of Tobacco for
all Penalties and Allowances mentioned in this Act And for all
Penalties and Forfeitures imposed in Tobacco by any former Laws
of this Province a Deduction of one fifth Part of such last men-
tioned Penalties and Forfeitures being first made the following
Species of Gold and Silver Coin if offered or tendered shall be

[Payments
may be made
in Gold and
Silver.]
p. 224

accepted and received at the following Rates Regulations and Values
Viz.^t Johannes's weighing 18 dw.^t at 960'^o Tobacco Half Johannes's
weighing 9 dw.^t at 400.^lb Tobacco Moidores weighing 6 dw.^t 18 grs
at 36olb Tobacco English Guineas weighing 5 dw.^t 6 grs at 28olb
Tobacco French Guineas weighing 5 dw.^t 5 Grs at 276^lb Tobacco;
Spanish Pistoles not lighter than 4 dw.^t 6 grs at 22o^lb Tobacco
French Milled Pistoles weighing 4 dw.^t 4 grs @ 216^lb Tobacco
Arabian Chequins weighing 2 dw.^t 3 Grs at 110^lb Tobacco English
Milled Crowns at 66 2/3^lb Tobacco Other English Milled Silver at
same Rate. Other Gold Coin (German excepted) by the Penny

[The Rates
at which
they pass.]