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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR
tobacco the old inspector or inspectors are hereby obliged and directed
to deliver, well nailed, lines and fit for shipping, to the new
inspector or inspectors,) describing in the said manifests the marks,
numbers, 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 inspectors 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 belonging to any owner; and the said new inspector
or inspectors shall be liable for, and answerable to, the old inspector
or inspectors, for all damage that shall happen to such tobacco
mentioned 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. |
1801.
CHAP. 63. |
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. |
Allowance to justices. |
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 inspected, and before the inspectors
shall be obliged to deliver notes therefor. |
Inspectors to receipt
for tobacco
delivered to them. |
42. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be
lawful for any
person to erect or build, or cause to be erected or built, any chimney,
except brick or stone, within one hundred yards of any public
warehouse in this state; and where any chimney, except brick or
stone, is already built within the distance aforesaid from any public
warehouse, the owner or proprietor of the said chimney shall pull
down the same, or on refusal or neglect so to do in six months after
the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff of
the
county, and he is hereby required, upon notice, under the penalty
of one hundred and fifty dollars, to cause such chimney to be pulled
down and demolished; and the inspector or inspectors of the several
warehouses shall, under the penalty of sixty dollars, give notice
to the sheriff of their respective counties of any chimnies being
erected, or already built, contrary to the provision in this act, as
soon as may be after such chimney may be discovered. |
Wooden chimnies
not to be built
within 100 yards
of any warehouse. |
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