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a separate manifest for each hogshead of tobacco, if required,
containing the numbers, gross, tare and net weight, and marks,
of every hogshead of tobacco, to be delivered to the -master of
the vessel in which the same shall be put on board for exporta-
tion, in all which manifests the number of hogsheads contained
shall be expressed in letters, and not in figures ; and if the
tobacco delivered is intended to be put ori board several vessels,
then the inspector or inspectors shall deliver separate manifests
for the hogsheads intended to be put on board each vessel,
which manifest or manifests every master is required to produce
to, and lodge with, the collector of the district where the vessel
whereof he is master shall ride, or by whom he shall be cleared
out, sometime before her clearance ; and as it may happen that
the vessel in which such tobacco was intended to be put may be
so full as not to be capable of stowing all the tobacco contained
in such manifest, or by springing a leak, or other accident, it
may be necessary to reland the same, in such cases it shall and
may be lawful to ship the said tobacco, or any part thereof, on
board any other vessel, if the owner thereof shall think fit, or if
there be no vessel to receive the said tobacco, then it shall and
may be lawful for the master of the first mentioned vessel to
put the said tobacco in the nearest warehouse to the place where
such vessel shall ride, and the inspector or inspectors of the
warehouse where such tobacco shall be delivered shall receive
from the person relanding the same the sum of forty cents for
every hogshead so landed, and shall give a receipt for the same,
and shall cause the said tobacco to be safely lodged and deliver-
ed to the owner, or his order, when required, without any other
fee or reward, and one-half of the money so received shall be
paid to the owner of the warehouse, and the other half shall be
retained by the inspector or inspectors, and accounted for at the
time of settling his or their accounts with the next levy court.
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SEC. 25. And, for preventing the packing of tobacco in un-
sizeable casks, Be it enacted. That no tobacco shall be passed ;
or accounted lawful tobacco, except tobacco in parcels, unless
the same shall be packed in hogsheads not exceeding forty-
eight inches in the length of the stave, and seventy inches in
the whole diameter within the staves at the cross and bulge ;
and the owner of tobacco packed in any hogshead of greater
dimensions shall repack the same in sizeable hogsheads, as here-
in before expressed, at his own expense, before the same shall
be passed.
The size of the hogshead altered by 1828, ch. 164.
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Tobacco
not to be
passed
unless
packed in
hogsheads
of certain
dimensions^
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SEC. 26. And be it enacted. That if any person shall forge ;
or counterfeit any manifest or note of any inspector or in spec-
tors, or alter the quantity or quality of tobacco expressed in
such manifest or note, or shall offer, or cause to bo offered in
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Penalty for
forging
manifesto
or notes.
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