XVII.  And be it further Enacted, That during the Continuance of this
Act, no Tender of any Debt or Duty payable in Tobacco shall be accounted 
lawful, unless Payment of the same shall be tendered in Inspector or Inspectors
Notes or Receipts.

    XVIII.  And for restraining the undue Practice of mixing trash with stemmed
Tobacco, and preventing the packing Tobacco in unsizeable Casks, Be 
it Enacted and Declared, That all Stemmed Tobacco not laid strait, whether
the same be packed loose or in Bundles; and all Tobacco packed in Hogsheads
which exceed Forty-eight Inches in the Length of the Stave, and Seventy
Inches in the whole Diameters within the Staves at the Croze and
Bulge, shall be accounted unlawful Tobacco, and shall not be passed or received:
But the owner of such Tobacco, packed in Casks or greater Dimensions
than before expressed, shall be obliged to re-pack the same in sizeable
Cask, at his own Cost and Charge, before the same shall be stamped by the
said Inspectors.

    XIX.  And be it further Enacted, That if any Person whatsoever shall
forge or counterfeit the Stamp, Note, or Receipt, of any Inspector, or Inspectors,
or tender in Payment any such Forged or Counterfeited Note or Receipt,
knowing it to be such; or export, or cause to be exported, any Hogshead,
Cask, Case, Chest, Box, or other Package of Tobacco, stampt with a
forged or Counterfeit Stamp; or demand Tobacco of any Inspector, or Inspectors,
upon any such forged or counterfeited Note or Receipt, knowing
such Note or Receipt, or such Stamp, to be forge or counterfeited; or shall
put or pack into any Hogshead, Cask, or Case of Tobacco, stamped by any
Inspector, any Tobacco whatsoever; or shall draw or take out any Stave,
Plank or Heading-board of any Hogshead, Cask, or Case of Tobacco after
such Hogshead, Cask, or Case of Tobacco, shall be delivered out from any
of the public Warehouses aforesaid; every Person so offending, and being
thereof convicted by due Course of Law, shall receive Thirty-nine Lashes on
his, her, or their bare Back, and stand in the Pillory for the Space of Two 
Hours; and that in all such Cases, the Testimony of the Inspector or Inspectors,
joined with other strong and corroborating Circumstances, shall and
may be admitted as Evidence.

    XX.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Inspector or Inspectors Notes or Receipts be casually lost, mislaid, or destroyed,
the Person or Persons entitled to receive the Tobacco by virtue of 
any such Note or Receipt, shall make Oath, or Affirmation if a Quaker, before
a Justice of the Peace of the County where the same is payable, " to the
" Number or Date of every such Note or Receipt, to whom and where payable,
" and for what Quantity of Tobacco the same was given, and that such Note
" or Receipt is lost, mislaid, or destroyed; and that he, she, or they, at the
" Time such Note or Receipt was lost, mislaid or destroyed, was lawfully entitled
" to receive the Tobacco therein mentioned;"  and shall take a Certificate
thereof from such Justice:  And upon producing a Certificate of such Oath,
or Affirmation, to the Inspector or Inspectors who signed such Note or Receipt,
and lodging the same with them, the said Inspector or Inspectors shall,
and he or they are hereby directed to pay and deliver to the Person obtaining
such Certificate, the Tobacco for which any such Notes or Receipts were given
(if the same, or any Part thereof, shall not have been before him or them
paid, by virtue of the said Notes or Receipts,) and shall be thereby discharged
from all Actions, Suits, and Demands, on Account of such Notes or