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the preceding year, the said new inspector or inspectors shall,
within ten days after he or they shall be qualified to serve as an
inspector or inspectors, make out two fair manifests in writing,
signed by such new inspector or inspectors, of all the tobacco
then in the same warehouse, (which tobacco the old inspector
or inspectors are hereby obliged and directed to deliver, well
nailed, lined and fit for shipping, to the new inspector or
inspectors,) describing in the said manifests the marks, num-
bers, gross, tare and net weights, of such tobacco, and shall
sign a receipt at the foot of each manifest for all such tobacco
received from the old inspector or inspectors, and shall deliver
both manifests to the old inspector or inspectors, the one of
which manifests shall be by him or them lodged, within ten
days thereafter, with the clerk of the county, under the penalty
of three hundred dollars on each inspector neglecting to make
such manifests, and the same penalty on the old inspector or
inspectors who shall neglect to lodge the same with the county
clerk within ten days after such list shall be delivered to him or
them, unless a reasonable excuse be offered by such new or old
inspector for any such neglect ; and the new inspector or inspec-
tors is, and are hereby declared to be, answerable to the owners
of any notes mentioned and described in such manifests, so far
as to produce the same hogshead or hogsheads of tobacco be-
longing to any owner ; and the said new inspector or inspectors
shall be liable for, and answerable to, the old inspector or in-
spectors, for all damage that shall happen to such tobacco men-
tioned in the manifests aforesaid, through the negligence of the
said new inspector or inspectors, during the time of his or their
serving as inspector or inspectors.
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SEC. 40. And be it enacted, That every justice who shall be
appointed, and shall attend to execute any duty imposed by
this act, shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for every day
he shall necessarily attend in consequence of such appointment,
in the next county assessment; and every inspector who shall
meet and attend the justices aforesaid at the court-house, shall
be allowed two dollars per day, in the next county assessment,
for his attendance.
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Allowance
to justices.
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SEC. 41. And be it enacted, That the inspector or inspectors
of tobacco at the several warehouses within this state, shall
immediately on the delivery of every hogshead of tobacco at
the warehouse whereof they are inspectors, weigh and give a
receipt for such tobacco, if required by the proprietor, or person
bringing the same to the said warehouse, expressing therein,
that the same is for uninspected tobacco, which receipt shall be
given up to the inspectors, upon the said tobacco's being in-
spected, and before the inspectors shall be obliged to deliver
notes therefor.
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Inspectors
to receipt
for tobacco
delivered
to them.
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