CHAP.
XXII.
His Duty in
receiving
Grain and other
Commodities
into the
Store-houses.
Shall give
Receipts for
Grain, &c.
which shall
be transferable.
One per Cent
for shrinkage
if lying above
three Months.
A Viewer or
Examiner of
Flour to be
appointed,
who shall
View and
Brand all
Flour Shipped
off.
His Fee 3 d.
per Barrel.
All Flour
Shipped off
from North-East
River,
shall be
brought to
Charles-Town
and there
Viewed and
Branded.
Penalty. |
and honest Dealing; Be it Enacted,
by
the Authority aforesaid,
That the said
Commissioners shall provide for the said Officer, out of the public Money,
sufficient Sealed Exact Measures, as used in this Province, and that the
said Officer shall give due Attendance at the said Wharf and Store-houses,
and shall receive therein all such clean and merchantable Grain and Commodities
as shall be brought there to be Stored, which he shall endeavour as
much as he can to keep in separate Parcels: But whereas he may be
often
obliged to mix the Grain belonging to several People, the said Officer
shall
use his utmost Skill in examining the Grain so brought in at different
Times,
and shall not receive into the said Store-house any Wheat, or other Grain,
that shall not be sufficiently Clean, Sound, and Merchantable.
VII. And be it
also Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid,
That the
said
Store-Keeper shall give all Persons lodging any Grain, or other Country
Produce
of Commodities in the said Store-house, authentic Receipts for the
same, and that the said Receipts shall be transferable, and being legally
Indorsed
or Assigned, shall oblige the said Store-Keeper to deliver to the Indorsee
or Assignee, without delay, the Goods or Commodities as is
hereafter rated and expressed, and no more.
VIII. Provided
nevertheless,
That for any Wheat or other Grain, measured
into the said Store-house, and lying therein above Three Months, the
said Store-Keeper shall be allowed One per Cent, on the Delivery thereof,
for
Shrinkage or other Waste of the said Grain.
IX. And for
Encouragement of Persons Trading to the said Town, and
for the Credit of the Manufacture of Wheat Shipped therefrom; Be
it also
Enacted,
by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That
as soon as the
said Officer or Store-Keeper shall be appointed as aforesaid, or at such
other
Times as the said Commissioners shall see necessary to appoint a Viewer
or
Examiner of Flour, and after one Month's Public Notice of the same, that
no Flour shall be Shipped off from the said Town, but what shall be carefully
Viewed and Branded by the said Officer (for which Purpose a public Brand-Iron
shall be provided by the Commissioners), who shall, at his entering on
said Office, make Oath before one Provincial or County Magistrate,
" That
" without Favour, Partiality, or Respect of Persons, he will use his best
Skill
" and Knowledge, that no Flour be Passed or Branded by him without his
" Viewing and Examining the same; and that he will not Brand, or cause
" to be Branded, and Cask or Casks of Flour, that does not appear to the
" best of his Skill and Knowledge, to be in all Respects sufficiently Clean,
" Sweet, and Merchantable, so as to be of equal Goodness and Fineness
" with the like Commodities usually Exported from the neighbouring Trading
" Colonies;" for Viewing and Branding whereof, he shall receive from
the Owner or Owners thereof, the Sum of Three Pence Current Money
per Barrel, and no more.
X. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid,
That after
such
Viewer and Examiner shall be appointed in Manner aforesaid, no Flour
whatsoever shall be Shipped off for Exportation of Trade, from any other
Place or Landing on North-East River; but that all Flour from thence
intended
to be Shipped off, shall be brought either by Land or by Water to the
said Town, and be there Viewed and Branded by the Officer aforesaid, on
Penalty of Forfeiture of the said Flour, or Value thereof, to be recovered
in any County Court of this Province, by Bill, Plaint, or Information,
wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law shall be allowed; one Moiety
of which Forfeiture to be paid to the Informer, the other Moiety to be
paid to the Commissioners, or the major Part of them, for the Time being,
to be applied towards the Building, Repairing or Maintaining the said
Public Wharf and Ware-house, and to be accounted for as abovesaid. |
