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any warehouse ; and the said two justices shall, within ten
days after such appointment, give notice to the proprietor or
proprietors of each warehouse concerning which they are ap-
pointed to contract, or his or their agent, to meet them at some
convenient place, by them in such notice to be appointed, at a
time not exceeding ten days from the date of such notice, at
which meeting the said two justices shall inform the said pro-
prietor or proprietors, or his or their agent, what is required of
him or them, according to the determination of the justices
aforesaid ; and if the said proprietor or proprietors will not
immediately enter into bond to the state, in such penalty as the
said two justices shall think proper, not exceeding one thousand
dollars, to do what is required as aforesaid within six months
after the date of such bond at farthest, or if after such bond
given, such proprietor or proprietors shall not complete every
thing therein specified, according to the tenor thereof, in either
case the said two justices shall forthwith agree with some other
person for doing what is determined as aforesaid to be neces-
sary, or may be unfinished as aforesaid, and shall take a bond
for performance of such their agreement; and in case one of the
two justices aforesaid should die, or be removed, the other shall
have as full power to act as if such death or removal had not
happened ; and if both such justices should die, or be removed,
then the levy court shall appoint two other justices, who shall
have the powers aforesaid ; and if any warehouse shall be suf-
fered by the proprietor to be out of repair for the space of six
weeks, after having notice given him by the justices appointed
to attend such warehouse that such repairs are wanting, every
such proprietor shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding sixty
dollars, and shall also be liable to an action of the party grieved
for damages sustained by occasion of such warehouse being out
of repair ; and it shall be the duty of the inspector or inspectors
of the respective warehouses to inform against any proprietor
suffering the warehouse to be out of repair as aforesaid; and
any inspector, knowing the warehouse of which he is an in-
spector to be out of repair as aforesaid, and not informing some
judge or justice, or grand jury, of the same, shall forfeit a sum
not exceeding sixty dollars.
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SEC. 34. And be it enacted, That the bond taken by the jus-
tices aforesaid shall be lodged by them, within twenty days
thereafter, with the clerk of their respective counties, to be by
him safely kept.
See 1823, ch. 165, as to the bond to be executed by the inspectors
appointed to the state warehouses.
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Bond to be
lodged with
clerk.
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SEC. 35. And be it enacted. That if either of the said two
justices of the peace shall omit or neglect the duty enjoined and
required, as to making the contracts, and taking and lodging the
bonds aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of sixty dollars.
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Penalty on
justices
neglecting
their duty.
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