CHAP.
XVIII.
Allowance of
4 per Cent, if
brought in
good Cask.
Weight of
Transfer Tobacco,
when
paid out.
Allowance to
Inspectors for
Inspecting,
and Nails,
for Shrinkage.
Inspectors delaying
Payment
on Demand,
The Penalty.
Inspectors not
to give Notes
unless they
have the Tobacco.
Penalty.
Nor any
Crop Note in
lieu of Transfer,
unless
prized, &c.
Crop Hogsheads
to be
inspected and
stamped; and
Notes given
for them
28 lb of Tobacco
allow'd
on the Eastern-Shore
to be paid
the Inspectors,
and
24 lb of Tobacco
on the
Western, per
Crop Hogshead. |
bringing the same, after the Rate of Four Pounds of Tobacco, for every
Hundred
Pounds the Tobacco therein contained shall weigh, after the same shall
be viewed and passed. And the said Inspector or Inspectors shall,
and are
hereby obliged to make every Hogshead by him or them paid away, in
Discharge
of any Note by him or them given as aforesaid, to contain One Thousand
Pounds of Nett Tobacco at the least, exclusive of the Allowance for
the
Cask; and for every such Hogshead of Tobacco by him or them paid away,
will line and nailed fit for Shopping, there shall be paid by the Person
receiving
such Hogshead, Fifty-six Pounds of Tobacco for inspecting, and Four
Pounds of Tobacco for Nails; which said Sum of Four Pounds of Tobacco,
the said Inspectors or Inspector shall and may retain in his or their
Hands,
for his or their own Use, to reimburse him or them the Expence of providing
Nails: And the Person demanding or receiving Tobacco in Discharge
of
Notes as aforesaid, shall allow to the Inspector or Inspectors Four
Pounds of
Tobacco per Centum, for the Cask, and Two Pounds of Tobacco
for every
Hundred Pounds of Tobacco contained in such Notes; and so proportionably
for a greater or lesser Quantity, for Shrinkage and Wasting, if the
said Tobacco
be paid at any Time within Two Months after the Date of the Note
given for the same; and One Pound of Tobacco for every Hundred, for
every
Month the same shall be unpaid after the said Allowance; so as such
Allowance
for Shrinkage and Wasting, do not exceed in the whole, Six Pounds of
Tobacco for every Hundred. And if any Inspector or Inspectors,
by whom
any such Notes for Tobacco as aforesaid shall be signed, shall refuse
or delay
to pay and satisfy the same when demanded, every Inspector so refusing
or delaying
shall forfeit and pay to the Party injured, double the value of the
Tobacco
so refused or delayed to be paid; to be recovered with Costs, in any
Court of Record within this Province, if the Note or Notes so refused
or delayed
to be paid exceed Six Hundred Pounds of Tobacco; and if the said
Note or Notes do not exceed Six Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, double the
Value aforesaid shall and may be recovered before any Justice of the
Peace of
the County wherein the Warehouse shall be, at which the Note or Notes
ought to be paid.
XV. And be it
further Enacted, That no Inspector or Inspectors shall hereafter,
on any Pretence whatsoever, presume to give out any promissory Note
or Notes for Tobacco, to any Person whatsoever, unless he or they shall
have
actually received and passed the full Quantity of Tobacco, for which
such
Note or Notes shall be given, under the Penalty of his or their forfeiting
of
his or their Year's Salary; nor shall any Inspector or Inspectors,
hereafter presume
to give out any Crop Note, or Receipt, in lieu of Transfer Tobacco,
unless the Hogshead of Tobacco, for which such Note or Receipt shall
be so
given out, shall be actually and bonâ fide, prized, and
ready to be delivered
for Exportation, under the Penalty of Eight Hundred Pounds of Tobacco,
for every Crop Note, or Receipt, so given.
XVI. And be it further
Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Tobacco
brought to any of the said Warehouses in Hogsheads, Casks, or Cases,
to be exported on Account and for the Use of the Owner thereof, after the
same shall have been viewed, examined, and weighed, and found to be Good,
shall be stampt as herein before directed: And the said Inspector,
or Inspectors,
shall deliver to the Person bringing the same, as many Receipts signed
as aforesaid, as shall be required for the Number of Hogsheads so brought
and stampt. And for every Hogshead, Cask, or Case, brought to any
of the
said Warehouses on the Eastern Shore, to be exported, on Account and for
the Use of the Owners thereof, there shall be paid to the Inspector, or
Inspectors
there attending, Twenty-eight Pounds of Tobacco, for viewing, examining,
and stamping the same; and the Owners of the said Tobacco shall
find and provide Nails for the Nailing thereof. And for every
Hogshead,
Cask, or Case, brought to any of the said Warehouses on the Western-Shore, |
