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CHAP. 84. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
building and completing the said bridge; and that the said levy
courts in the respective counties shall make such compensation to
the said commissioners as they in their judgment may think proper. |
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Passed Jan. 19, 1805.
* 1801, ch. 63. |
CHAP. LXXXV.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act to regulate the
inspection
of Tobacco. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 667. |
Inspectors to view
tobacco brought in
parcels, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
where any tobacco shall be brought in parcels to any warehouse in
this state, appointed in consequence of the act to which this is a
further supplement, for the reception and inspection of tobacco, the
inspector or inspectors are hereby directed carefully to view and
examine the same, and if found to be sound, clear of trash, in good
condition and merchantable, to weigh, and render to the owner
thereof as many transfer notes as he or she may require, to the
amount of the quantity so examined and weighed; which notes shall
be current, and received 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 may be, and shall be
transferrable from one to another in all such tobacco payments, and
shall be paid and satisfied by the inspector or inspectors 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 discharge 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 rato, 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 aforesaid 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 delayed 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. |
Owners of transfer
notes may receive
in satisfaction for
the same, notes for
a marked hogshead. |
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 |
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