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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
45. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices
of the several county
courts be authorised and required, at their respective county
courts, to give this act in charge to the grand jury, and to direct
them to make diligent inquiry into any breaches of this act and
particularly into the conduct of the inspectors in their county. |
1801.
CHAP. 63.
Act to be given in
charge to grand
juries. |
46. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court
are hereby authorised and required to inquire into the number of
warehouses in their county, the quantity of tobacco inspected at each
warehouse within the year, the number of inspectors at each warehouse,
and the annual expense of, and receipts at, each warehouse,
and after full inquiry, and mature consideration of all these circumstances,
and the situation and convenience of the inhabitants of their
county who carry tobacco for inspection, to determine whether any
warehouse or warehouses appointed in their county in virtue of this
act ought to be discontinued and suppressed, and also whether the
number of inspectors at any warehouse ought to be increased or diminished,
and the said justices shall enter their determination in
the records of the minutes of their proceedings, and shall transmit
a copy thereof to the governor and council; and if the said justices
shall declare that any warehouse or warehouses is unnecessary, they
shall, by virtue of such order, be discontinued, and if belonging to
the county, the warehouse or warehouses, with the ground belonging
thereto, shall be sold by the order of the said justices, and the
sales thereof applied to the use of the county, and if they shall declare
that the number of inspectors are too few or too many at any
warehouse, the governor, with the advice of the council, may appoint
and commission, out of the last recommendation, as many
persons as may be necessary, or in the last case, take as many out
of the appointment and commission as may be requisite. |
Court to inquire
into number of
houses, &c. and if
necessary discontinue
them. |
47. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any warehouse
or warehouses
shall be declared to be unnecessary, and shall be discontinued, that
it shall be the duty of the inspector or inspectors at such warehouses
to send the tobacco remaining in such warehouse to the warehouse
most convenient thereto, the expense of which he shall charge to
the county, to be credited in his account or levied for him if he should
not be in arrears to the county; and the inspector at the warehouse
to
which the same is sent shall be accountable for the same. |
In case any
house should be
discontinued, tobacco
may be removed
to the
one most convenient. |
48. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for every hogshead
of tobacco
inspected after the commencement of this act in the counties of
Calvert (a) Prince-George's (b) and Somerset, there shall be paid
to the inspector or inspectors who shall deliver the said tobacco,
the sum of seventy-five cents, and for every hogshead of tobacco
inspected in the counties of Baltimore, Saint-Mary's, Charles,
Worcester, Dorchester, Anne-Arundel, Talbot and Queen-Anne's,
there shall be paid the sum of one dollar by the person receiving
the said tobacco, at the time of delivery thereof, and the said inspectors
shall account foe and pay all such monies by them received
to the justices of the levy court of their county, who shall, out
of such monies, pay the proprietors of the warehouses, within one
month after such account shall be settled, a sum of money, in their
discretion, not exceeding sixty-seven cents, nor less than twenty-five
(a) By 1803, ch. 4, s. 4, one
dollar per hogshead is allowed for inspection in
Calvert county.
(b) By 1817, ch. 73, the same sum to be paid in
Prince-George's county. |
Allowance to inspectors. |
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