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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shall be liable for costs, and any person bringing suit on such bond
may be compelled by the court in which such suit may be instituted
to give security for costs; and if the same person be continued inspector,
he shall, on every appointment, give bond as aforesaid. |
1801.
CHAP. 63 |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court, or
a majority of them, shall, at the time of making their county assessment,
ascertain the salaries of the inspectors, so that the same
shall not exceed three hundred dollars for each inspector within
their county; and if the sum allowed by this act for inspection shall
not be sufficient to satisfy the said salaries and warehouse rent,
and other charges of the inspection-houses within their counties,
the said justices shall assess in their county assessment a sum of
money sufficient to discharge the same. |
Court to ascertain
inspectors salaries. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no inspector shall,
directly or indirectly,
during his continuance in the said office, buy, or receive any
tobacco by way of barter, loan or exchange, or any way intermeddle
with or busy himself in procuring tobacco to be sold or consigned to
any merchant, or in loading any ship or vessel with tobacco, except
the proper tobacco of such inspector, under the penalty of sixteen
dollars for every hogshead of tobacco so bought or received,
or procured to be sold or consigned, contrary to this act; provided,
that any inspector may receive his own proper rents or debts in
tobacco. |
Inspectors not to
levy or receive tobacco
by way of
barter--penalty. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
shall erase, or in
anywise alter or deface, any letter, mark, number, or figure, set
upon any hogshead by any inspector, or if any person shall counterfeit
any letter, mark, number or figure, on any hogshead, such
person shall forfeit one hundred and fifty dollars for every such offence. |
Penalty on altering
marks. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any inspector
shall accept or
receive, directly or indirectly, any gratuity or reward for any thing
by him done in pursuance of this act, other than his salary, every
such inspector, being thereof convicted, shall forfeit and pay the
sum of three hundred dollars, and shall be disabled from holding
the office of inspector during the continuance of this act; and if
any person shall offer any gratuity, reward or bribe, to any inspector,
for any thing by him to be done in pursuance of this act,
and shall be thereof convicted, such person shall, for every such
offence, forfeit and pay three hundred dollars. |
Penalty for receiving
any gratuity
or reward other
than his salary. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every inspector
neglecting to attend
as directed by the levy court, unless prevented by sickness, or
other unavoidable accident, shall forfeit and pay to the party grieved
twenty dollars for every neglect, or shall be liable to an action
upon the case of the party grieved, to recover all damages sustained
by occasion of any such neglect, together with costs, at the election
of such party. |
Penalty for neglecting
to attend
as directed by
court. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every inspector
shall uncase and
break every hogshead of tobacco, or cause the same to be done in
his presence, which he may be called on to inspect as aforesaid, in
not less than three different places, and if the inspector or inspectors,
as the case may be, shall be of opinion that such tobacco is
sound, clean, in good order, condition, and merchantable, he or they
shall weigh, or cause the same to be weighed in his or their presence,
such tobacco, in scales, with weights of the lawful standard, |
Every hogshead
brought to inspect
shall be uncased
and broke in not
less than three
different places--
marks. |
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