Acts. 191

until the Defendant or Defendants shall put in such Special Bail
any Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding

Liber R. G.
1773

And whereas the Inspection heretofore established in Dorchester
at Plymouth is by this Act discontinued and one other Inspection
instead thereof appointed to be on the Land of John Airy near the
Mouth of Slaughter Creek in Dorchester Parish in the said County
Be it enacted that the Justices for the said County for the Time

[Plymouth
Warehouse
to be sold,
and the Title
vested in the
Purchaser.]

being shall and they are hereby directed and required at their next
March Court to sell by Way of Public Vendue for ready Money only
to the best Bidder or Bidders the Right of the said County to and
in the Public Warehouse and Land that now is at Plymouth and
the Purchaser and Purchasers thereof respectively are on Payment
of the Purchase Money hereby vested with and declared to have in
him her or them the same right and Title to and in the said Public
Warehouse and Land at Plymouth as the said County had or ought
to have by Virtue of any Act of Assembly of this Province hereto
fore made

p. 232

And be it enacted that all the Penalties and Forfeitures in this
Act mentioned wherein no Mode of recovery is herein before ap-
pointed nor different Application thereof directed if the same exceed
Six hundred Pounds of Tobacco shall and may be recovered by
Action of Debt Information or Indictment one half thereof to the
Informer or Person who sues for the same if the Recovery shall be
had in an Action of Debt or Information Quitam and the other half
to be applied towards Defraying the Charges of the County where
the Offence shall be Committed and if the Penalty or Forfeitures
shall not exceed six hundred Pounds of Tobacco then the Recovery
thereof shall be before any one Justice of the Peace and half of
the same shall be paid to the Informer and the other half to the
Use of the County as aforesaid and if the recovery shall be on an
Indictment or otherwise where there is no Informer the whole shall
be applied towards Defraying the Charge of the County where the
Offence shall be Committed

[Penalties,
wherein no
Mode of Re-
covery is be-
fore ap-
pointed nor
different
Applications
directed,
How to be
recovered
and applied.]

And whereas many of the Warehouses rented and used under the
late Inspection Law for the reception of Tobacco have been since
the Expiration of the said Law employed and used by the Owners
thereof to other Purposes and they may be now unwilling to rent
them for the Use of the Public and whereas it is necessary to erect
new Warehouses at some of the Places directed by this Law Be it
Enacted that the Justices of the County Court of such Counties
or any three of them in all such Cases shall and they are hereby
authorized and required to agree for and purchase a Quantity of
Land not exceeding one Acre the most Convenient and proper for
the Erection of Warehouses And in Case the Owner or Owners of
such Land shall refuse to make Sale of so much of the said Land
is

[Owners of
Warehouses
used under
the late In-
spection
Law being
unwilling to
rent them,
Justices to
purchase
Land con-
venient for
the Erection
of Ware-
houses, &c.]