and in Words at length, and whenever any Person or Persons interested
in
them, or to whom the same shall be charged, shall desire a Copy of such
Account,
the several Officers shall, and are hereby required to give such person
so applying therefore, in as short a Time as may be convenient, an Account
of such Charge in Words at length. And that all Under-Clerks and
Deputies,
writing in any the Offices aforesaid, or doing Service in them, shall be
the Time aforesaid, or before they enter into any of the Services aforesaid,
before some Provincial or County Magistrate (who is hereby authorized and
required to administer the same), take the following Oath, under the
Penalty
of Five Thousand Pounds of Tobacco for every such Refusal or Neglect,
to
be recovered in any Court of Record within this Province, by Action of
Debt,
Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of
Law, shall be allowed, nor more than one Imparlance; the one Half to the
Informer, or him or them that will sue for the same, and the other Half
to
the Use of the County where such Neglect or Refusal shall happen, towards
defraying the Charge of carrying this Act into Execution, viz.
" You A. B.
" do Swear, that you will not, for Lucre or Malice, delay any Person
or Persons
" applying to you for any Business belonging to the Office you officiate
in; and that
" you will not, directly or indirectly, ask, demand, take, or receive
from, or charge
" to, any such Person or Persons, to your own Use (except your Salary
from your
" Principal), any Fee or Reward whatsoever, for any Service you shall do
as Clerk
" of the said Office: And also, that in making out the Office Fees,
you will not
" wittingly or willingly charge other or higher Fees, than limited
by the Act entitled,
" An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds
in
" his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees."
Which
said Oaths beforementioned, shall be severally returned by the Magistrate
before
whom the same shall be taken, to the Provincial or County Offices,
as
the Case shall require, and be there entered on Record. And that
all and
every Person or Persons, claiming Right to any Fee or Fees, allowed by
this
Act, shall be obliged to set up and affix in the most public Place
of his Office,
a Table of Fees to the Intent that all Persons concerned may have Recourse
to the same.
CXII. And be
it further Enacted, That no Officer or Officers herein beforementioned,
under the Penalty aforesaid, to be recovered as aforesaid, shall
make or send out their Fees on Execution but once in every Year, and that
between the First Day of December, and the Tenth Day of January
yearly,
during the Continuance of this Act. And that the Party or Parties
charged,
their Persons, Goods, or Chattels, shall not be executed for any of
the aforesaid
Fees, unless their Accounts be delivered them at or before the last Day
of February, in any Year they shall be demanded.
CXIII. And be
it further Enacted, That wherever any Deputy-Surveyor
returns a Certificate or Certificates, for the Examination of the Examiner-General,
and that the same shall be found erroneous, that in such Case, the
Party for whose Use such Survey is made, shall not be burthened with double
Fees, either by the Examiner-General or Deputy-Surveyor; but that the
several Deputy-Surveyors shall pay the Examiner-General for any extraordinary
Trouble they give him in re-examining, such Fees as by this Act is allowed
to the Examiner-General.
CXIV. And be
it further Enacted, That the several Inspectors shall be,
and are hereby obliged, whenever they shall have inspected a Hogshead or
Hogsheads of Tobacco, to case and nail up the same in good Order, and according
to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, immediately after inspecting
the same.
CXV. And be it
further Enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any
of the Sheriffs within this Province, and they are hereby directed and
required.
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CHAP.
XVIII.
Accounts of
Officers Fees,
and Copies
thereof, to be
made out in
Words at
length.
Under-
Clerks to
be sworn.
Penalty for
refusing to
swear.
The Oath.
Oath to be
recorded.
Table of Fees
to be set up.
Time of sending
out Fees
on Execution,
annually.
Accounts to
be delivered
before the last
of February.
Deputy-Surveyors
making
erroneous
Returns shall
pay the extra
Fees.
Tobacco to
be cased and
mail'd, as soon
as inspected. |
