| 1801.
CHAP. 63. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
number, with the gross, tare and net weight, of all such tobacco,
and in what vessel the same shall be laden, and shall send with every
load of tobacco a manifest thereof, or a separate manifest for
each hogshead of tobacco, if required, containing the numbers,
gross, tare and net weight, and marks, of every hogshead of tobacco,
to be delivered to the master of the vessel in which the same
shall be put on board for exportation, in all which manifests the
number of hogsheads contained shall be expressed in letters, and
not in figures; and if the tobacco delivered is intended to be put
on
board several vessels, then the inspector or inspectors shall deliver
separate manifests for the hogsheads intended to be put on board
each vessel, which manifest or manifests every master is required
to produce to, and lodge with, the collector of the district where
the
vessel whereof he is master shall ride, or by whom he shall be cleared
out, some time before her clearance; and as it may happen that
the vessel in which such tobacco was intended to be put may be so
full as not to be capable of stowing all the tobacco contained in such
manifest, or by springing a leak, or other accident, it may be necessary
to reland the same, in such cases it shall and may be lawful
to ship the said tobacco, or any part thereof, on board any other
vessel, if the owner thereof shall think fit, or if there be no vessel
to receive the said tobacco, then it shall and may be lawful for the
master of the first mentioned vessel to put the said tobacco in the
nearest warehouse to the place where such vessel shall ride, and
the inspector or inspectors of the warehouse where such tobacco
shall be delivered shall receive from the person relanding the same
the sum of forty cents for every hogshead so landed, and shall give
a receipt for the same, and shall cause the said tobacco to be safely
lodged and delivered to the owner, or his order, when required,
without any other fee or reward, and one half of the money so received
shall be paid to the owner of the warehouse, and the other
half shall be retained by the inspector or inspectors, and accounted
for at the time of settling his or their accounts with the next levy
court. |
Tobacco not to be
passed unless
packed in hogsheads
of certain
dimensions. |
25. AND, for preventing the packing of tobacco
in unsizeable
casks, BE IT ENACTED, That no tobacco shall be passed or accounted
lawful tobacco, except tobacco in parcels, unless the same
shall be packed in hogsheads not exceeding forty-eight inches in
the length of the stave, and seventy inches in the whole diameter
within the staves at the cross and bulge; and the owner of tobacco
packed in any hogshead of greater dimensions shall repack the same
in sizeable hogsheads, as herein before expressed, at his own expense,
before the same shall be passed. |
Penalty for forging
manifests or
notes. |
26. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
shall forge or counterfeit
any manifest or note of any inspector or inspectors, or alter
the quantity or quality of tobacco expressed in such manifest or note,
or shall offer, or cause to be offered in payment, any such forged,
counterfeited or altered, and shall be thereof convicted in
the general court or any county 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. |
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