CHAP.
XVIII.
Samples, if
good, to be
replaced by
the Inspectors.
Penalty.
Inspectors to
keep a Book
of Marks and
Numbers of
Tobacco received,
and another
of the Marks,
&c. when delivered
out.
Light Crop
Hogsheads.
Notes to be
given in the
Name of the
Owners of
Tobacco
when brought
by Overseers.
Light Hogsheads
of Tobacco
not
stamped, may
be delivered
after Inspection
to Owners,
but not
shipped till
inspected anew.
Transfer
Notes may be
turned into
Crop.
Allowance to
the Inspectors.
Transfer Tobacco
not
turned into
Crop, shall
be sold annually
by Auction
each November
Court,
in single
Hogsheads,
&c. |
Shore, for stamping; and for all Tobacco re-packed and prized by the
Inspectors,
Fifty-six Pounds of Tobacco for each Hogshead, and also Four Pounds
of Tobacco for Nails, unless the Proprietor shall find and provide
Nails.
And no Inspector shall take or convert to his own Use, or otherwise dispose
of,
any Draughts or Samples of Freight or Crop Tobacco; but the same (if fit
to pass) shall be carefully put into the Hogsheads out of which it was
drawn,
under the Penalty of forfeiting One Hundred and Sixty Pounds of Tobacco,
for every Draught so taken away, contrary to the Directions of this Act:
To be recovered before any Justice of the Peace of the County wherein such
Offence shall be committed. And all and every Inspector or Inspectors,
if
required, shall alter the Mark of any Hogshead of Tobacco, for which
they
have before given a Receipt; and for preventing Confusion and Mistakes,
shall keep a Waste-Book, in which shall be entered the Marks and Numbers
of all Hogsheads or Tobacco received by them; and another Book, in which
shall be entered the Marks and Numbers thereof, when the same shall be
delivered
out by them. And all Inspectors, when required, shall be obliged
to
prize any Hogshead of Crop Tobacco, under Nine Hundred and Fifty Pounds
Nett, so as to make it up that Weight; but shall receive the same Fee upon
such Hogshead, as for Transfer Tobacco, and may make the lawful Abatements
for the Tobacco prized in, And where any Tobacco shall be brought
to any Warehouse, by the Overseer of the Owner thereof, the Inspector
or
Inspectors shall give Notes and Receipts in the Name of the Owner, and
not
of the Overseer; which Notes and Receipts shall be delivered to the Owner,
or to his Order.
LXV. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any light
Hogshead or Parcel of Tobacco, after the same shall be passed at any public
Warehouse, and not stamped, shall and may be delivered out by the Inspector
or Inspectors to the Owner of their Notes; and such Tobacco may be
carried away, for the better sorting and stemming the same; provided the
Person receiving such Tobacco shall pay for the Inspection thereof, after
the
Rate of Fifty-six Pounds of Tobacco for ever Nine Hundred and Fifty
Pounds Weight, and so in Proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity:
And
that such Tobacco shall not be shipped off, until it shall be again inspected,
passed, and stamped; for which the Inspector or Inspectors shall again
receive
the established Fees, under the same Penalties as are herein before inflicted,
for shipping off, and taking on board any Ship, or other Vessel, Tobacco
not
inspected, viewed, and stamped, according to the Directions of this Act.
LXVI. And be
it further Enacted, That the Owner of any Transfer Notes,
may at any Time receive and mark Hogsheads of Tobacco for satisfying such
Notes, and the Inspector or Inspectors shall take in his or their former
Notes,
and deliver Crop Notes and Receipts for such Hogsheads, and shall be answerable
for the safe keeping thereof, in the same Manner as they are for Crop
Tobacco.
But the persons receiving such Hogsheads shall pay to the Inspectors
Sixty Pounds of Tobacco for the Inspection and Nails, for every Hogshead;
That is to say, Thirty-two Pounds of Tobacco upon the Eastern Shore,
and
Thirty-six Pounds of Tobacco upon the Western Shore, down, and Twenty-eight
Pounds of Tobacco on the Eastern Shore, and Twenty-four Pounds of
Tobacco on the Western Shore, when the Tobacco shall be delivered out.
And the Inspectors shall sell all Transfer Tobacco, which shall not be
so received
and marked, on the Second Day of holding the Court, if fair Weather,
if not, on the next fair Day of the Court of their respective Counties,
in the
Month of November, yearly, by public Auction, in single Hogsheads,
and
not otherwise, in their County Courts respectively held in that Month;
and
shall pay the Money arising by such Sale, at the average Price of the Sale
of
the Tobacco belonging to each House, in Satisfaction of their Notes, from
Time to Time, to the Proprietors thereof making their Demand, under
the
same Penalty as is inflicted for not paying Inspectors Notes. |
