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[Inspectors
to examine
such To-
bacco, and
if found
good to
pass it, if not
to burn it.]
p. 226
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upon such Summons accordingly and such Inspectors or Inspector
so attending shall search view and examine such Tobacco and if
upon such View Search and Examination the said Tobacco or any
considerable Proportion thereof shall appear to him or them to be
such as he or they are by this Act required and obliged as Inspectors
to pass that then the same or such Part thereof shall be by him or
them in all Respects treated dealt with and managed as other Tobacco
by them passed is by this Act directed the Party owning or Claiming
such Tobacco paying or allowing to the Warrant Officer or Officers
after the rate of Eight Pounds of Tobacco for every hundred Pounds
of such Tobacco as shall as aforesaid pass Inspection for Carrying
the same to such Inspecting House which Rate or Proportion the
Inspectors are hereby authorized and required to demand and receive
of the Person who Claims such Tobacco before they permit the same
to be taken out of the Inspecting House and which Rate or Pro-
portion after the Receipt thereof as aforesaid shall be by the said
Inspectors paid to such Warrant Officer or Officers or his or their
Order upon Demand and in Case such Tobacco or any Part thereof
as aforesaid shall not upon such View and Examination as aforesaid
by such Inspector or Inspectors be passed then such Tobacco or
such Part thereof as shall not pass Inspection as aforesaid shall by
such Inspectors or Inspector after being by him or them weighed be
immediately burnt and the said Warrant Officer or Officers shall
have and receive as a Reward for his or their Diligence in the
Execution of this present Act after the Rate of Eight Pounds of To-
bacco for every hundred Pounds of Tobacco which shall be so taken
and burnt as aforesaid to be recovered either from the Person Owner
of the said House Vessel or other Place knowing the said Tobacco
to have been there or from the Person owning such Tobacco at the
Time of such Seizure before a single Magistrate out of Court with
full Costs and to be levied by Way of Execution against the Person
Goods or Chattels of the Party so offending
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[Unmer-
chantable
Tobacco dis-
covered un-
der Car-
riage to be
seized, and
carried to
the next
Inspection
House.]
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And be it Enacted that where any Person or Persons whatsoever
shall discover under Carriage any Trashy or unmerchantable Tobacco
he or they so discovering shall be and they are hereby authorized
and required to stop and seize such Trashy or unmerchantable To-
bacco and the same shall Convey or shall direct and require the
Party or Parties so carrying the same as aforesaid to Carry such
Tobacco to the next or any other Convenient Inspecting House and
that such Party or Parties refusing to Carry the same shall forfeit
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