CHAP.
XVIII.
Penalty on
Justices for
Neglect.
Money assessed
to be re-paid
by Rent
of the House.
Justices to
have Power
any Time of
the Year to
regulate about
Repairs, &c.
Penalty on
Justices neglecting
their
Duty when
applied to be
the Inspectors.
New Inspectors
shall deliver
Two
Lists (with
Receipts) of
Tobacco left
in the Warehouse
by the
old Inspectors;
one of which
to be lodged
with the
County-Clerk.
Penalty for
Neglect.
New Inspectors
to be answerable
for
the Tobacco,
and for Damage
thro'
Negligence. |
CXLIII. And
be it Enacted, That if any Justice of the Peace shall omit
or neglect the Duty enjoined and required of him, as to the making the
Contracts,
or taking or lodging the Bonds aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the
Sum of Eight Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, to be recovered and applied as
aforesaid.
CXLIV. And be
it Enacted, That whatever Sum or Sums the Justices
aforesaid may contract for as aforesaid, shall be assessed and allowed
in the
next County Levy after the Performance of such Contract, and shall be deducted
out of the Tobacco and Money arising due for the Rent of the
House, for which such Sum or Sums were paid, until the County shall be
reimbursed.
CXLV. And be
it further Enacted, That the Justices of each respective
County shall, and are hereby directed to have a full subsisting and continuing
Power, at all other Times of the Year, to put in Execution so much of this
Act as relates to the Building, Enlarging and Repairing public Warehouses,
and
to regulate all Matters concerning the same, and to direct the Building,
Enlarging,
and Repairing any Warehouses, Wharfs, Prizes, Cranes, and other
Conveniencies, from Time to Time, as to them shall seem necessary and expedient;
and in Case where the Proprietor, Guardian, Husband, or Attorney
of, or any other Person concerned in any Warehouse, shall refuse or neglect
to make such Buildings, Additions, Repairs, or other necessary Conveniencies
as shall or may be wanting, at any other Times of the Year, and such
as the said Justices shall direct, it shall and may be lawful for the said
Justices,
and they are hereby required to have the same done, at the Expence of the
County, and the Justices of each County, shall receive so much of the Rent
of
the said Warehouse of the Inspectors, as will reimburse the County the
Charges
of such Buildings, Additions, and Repairs. And if upon Application
of the
Inspectors to the Justices aforesaid, for Building, Enlarging, or Repairing,
any
Warehouses, Wharfs, Prizes, Cranes, and other Conveniencies, such Justices
shall refuse or delay to do their Duty therein, every Justice so neglecting
or refusing, shall forfeit Eight Hundred Pounds of Tobacco, to be recovered
in the County Court with Costs, by Action of Debt, or Information, in the
Name of the respective Inspector or Inspectors, and to be applied to the
Use
of such Warehouse or Warehouses.
CXLVI. And be
it further Enacted, That when and as often as a new Inspector
or Inspectors shall be elected and chosen, in the Room and Stead of
the Inspector or Inspectors, who served at the same Warehouse the preceding
Year, that the said new Inspector or Inspectors shall, within Ten Days
after
he or they shall be qualified to serve, as an Inspector or Inspectors,
according
to the Directions in this Act, make out Two Lists of all Hogsheads of
Tobacco then in the same Warehouse being, (which Tobacco the old Inspector
or Inspectors are hereby obliged and directed to deliver) well Nailed,
Lines, or fit for Shipping, (to the New Inspector or Inspectors) describing
the Marks, Numbers, Gross, Tare, and Nett Weight, stamped and marked
thereon, and sign a Receipt at the Foot of each List, of such Hogsheads
received
from the old Inspector or Inspectors, which Lists so as aforesaid given,
with the Receipts thereto signed, shall be delivered to the old Inspector
or
Inspectors, the one of which Lists shall be by him or them lodged with
the
Clerk of the County, to be by him kept in his Office, under the Penalty
of
Eight Thousand Pounds of Tobacco to each Inspector neglecting to make
such Lists; and the same Penalty on the old Inspector or Inspectors,
who shall
neglect to lodge the same with the County Clerk, to be recovered and applied
as herein before directed; and the new Inspector or Inspectors is, and
are hereby
declared to be, answerable to the Owners of any Notes mentioned and described
in such Lists, so far as to produce the same Hogshead or Hogsheads of
Tobacco belonging to any Owner; and likewise that the said new Inspector |