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ed in payment and satisfaction of all contracts for tobacco, and
judgments and decrees on contracts for tobacco, subject to a
deduction of six per cent, when paid or received in lieu of crop
tobacco, and of ten per cent, when paid or received in lieu of
crop tobacco clear of cask, according to the terms and intention
of the contract, judgment or decree, as the case maybe, and
shall be transferable from one to another in all such tobacco
payments, and shall be paid and satisfied by the inspector or in-
spectors who signed the same, upon demand ; and the said
inspector or inspectors shall and are hereby obliged to make
every hogshead of tobacco by him or them paid away in dis-
charge of such transfer notes, to contain nine hundred pounds
of net tobacco at least ; and for every such hogshead of tobacco
by him or them paid away, well lined and nailed, in fit order
for shipping, there shall be paid by the person receiving such
hogshead the sum of five dollars, for the hogshead, packing,
prizing and finding nails for lining the same ; and the person
demanding or receiving tobacco in discharge of transfer notes
as aforesaid, shall allow the inspector or inspectors two pounds
of tobacco per hundred, and so pro rata, for shrinkage and waste,
if the said tobacco be paid at any time within two months after
the date of the note or notes given for the same, and one pound
of tobacco for every hundred for every month in which the
same shall be unpaid after the said allowance, so as all such
allowances for shrinkage and waste do not exceed, in the whole,
six pounds for every hundred pounds of tobacco; and if any
inspector or inspectors by whom such notes for tobacco as afore-
said shall be signed, shall refuse or delay to pay and satisfy the
same when demanded, every inspector so refusing or delaying,
shall forfeit and pay to the party injured double the value of the
tobacco so refused or delayed to be paid, to be recovered in the
county court, with costs, if the note or notes so refused or de-
layed to be paid exceed five hundred pounds of tobacco, and if
the note or notes do not exceed five hundred pounds of tobacco,
double the value shall and may be recovered before a single
magistrate.
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Owners of
transfer
notes may
receive in
satisfaction
for the
same, notes
for a
marked
hogshead.
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SEC 2, And be it enacted, That the owner of any transfer
note or notes may at any time receive a note or notes for a
marked hogshead or hogsheads of tobacco in satisfaction for
such notes, and the inspector or inspectors, on delivering the
same, shall take in his or their former notes, and be answerable
for the safe keeping of every hogshead of tobacco, the note for
which shall be so delivered, in the same manner that they are
now for crop tobacco, but the person receiving such note shall
pay to the inspector or inspectors the sum of five dollars for the
cask, nails and prizing thereof; and the inspector or inspectors
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