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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1601.

payment, any such forged, counterfeited or altered manifest or
note, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or altered,
and shall be thereof convicted in the general court or any coun-
ty court, or shall refuse to plead, he shall be publicly whipped
not exceeding thirty-nine lashes, or fined in any sum not
exceeding three hundred dollars, or shall be sentenced to hard
labour for any term not exceeding seven years, or all of them,
in the discretion of the court.

And for
exporting
tobacco
with a
forged
stamp.

SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That if any person shall export,
or cause to be exported, any hogshead of tobacco marked with
a forged or counterfeited mark, or demand tobacco of any in-
spector or inspectors upon any forged, counterfeited or altered
manifest or note, knowing such manifest or note, or such mark,
to be forged, counterfeited or altered, every person so offending,
and being thereof convicted, shall receive thirty-nine lashes on
his or her bare back, or be sentenced to hard labour not exceed-
ing seven years, or be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars,
or all of them, in the discretion of the court; and if any person
shall put or pack any tobacco into any hogshead marked by any
inspector or inspectors in lieu of tobacco inspected, or shall draw
or take out any stave, plank or heading board, of any hogshead
of tobacco, after it shall be delivered out from any public ware-
house, unless it be for the purpose of examining the quality of
the tobacco by a person intending to purchase the same, every
person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined a
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, if free, and if a servant
or slave shall be whipped not exceeding twenty lashes, and in
all such cases the testimony of the inspector or inspectors may
be admitted as evidence.

Persons
losing notes
upon mak-
ing oath
thereof
entitled to
new ones.

SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That if any note or notes of any
inspector or inspectors be lost, mislaid or destroyed, the person
entitled to receive the tobacco by virtue of any such note or
notes shall make oath, or affirmation, (as the case may be,)
before a justice of the peace of the county where the same is
payable, to the mark, number and date of such note, to whom
and where payable, and for what quantity of tobacco the same
was given, and that such note or notes is lost, mislaid or des-
troyed, was first made by the party, and that such person, at
the time such note or notes was lost, mislaid or destroyed, was
lawfully and justly entitled to receive the tobacco therein men-
tioned, and shall take a certificate thereof from such justice, and
upon producing such certificate to the inspector or inspectors
who signed such note or notes, and lodging the same with him
or them, the said inspector or inspectors of the said tobacco in
the said note or notes shall deliver to the person obtaining such
certificate a new note or notes, with the marks, numbers,
weights and dates, corresponding with the former note or notes