| 1789.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
their charge, under a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds current money
for every
neglect. |
Inspectors to
account, &c. |
XXV. And be
it enacted, That all inspectors shall, on the second day of the
court of laying the assessment for their respective counties, account with
the
justices thereof, upon oath or affirmation, as the case may be, for all
monies
received, or which ought to be received, by them by virtue of this act,
in
which account they shall be allowed for necessary disbursements, in pursuance
of this act. |
Scales, &c.
vested in inspectors,
&c. |
XXVI. And be
it enacted, That the property of the scales, ropes, blocks,
branding and marking irons and weights, belonging to any warehouse established
by this act, shall be so far vested in the inspector or inspectors
for the time being,
as to punish any trespass or felony thereof. |
Inspectors to
deliver printed
notes, &c. |
XXVII. And be
it enacted, That the inspector or inspectors who shall pass
any tobacco, shall deliver as many printed notes, under the hands of the
said inspectors
or inspector, to the owner, and in his name, as shall be required,
in
which note or receipt shall be expressed the place and time of reception,
the
maker's mark, the warehouse number, and the gross, tare, and net weights,
for all tobacco inspected and passed, and also in the note shall be expressed,
whether
coloured or leaf; and the said notes shall be payable to the said owner,
or
bearer, and shall be current and received in payment of all debts and contracts
for tobacco, or judgments and decrees on contracts for tobacco, according
to the
terms and intention of the contract, judgment or decree, as the case may
be, and
shall be transferable from one person to another, and shall be paid,
upon demand,
by the inspector or inspectors who signed the same; and no tender of any
debt or contract for tobacco, or judgment or decree on any contract for
tobacco,
shall be accounted lawful, unless payment of the same shall be tendered
in inspector
or inspectors note or notes. |
When persons
are entitled to
receive tobacco,
inspectors
to open hogshead,
&c. |
XXVIII. And
be it enacted, That when any person shall be entitled to receive
tobacco by virtue of any inspector or inspectors note or notes, the inspector
or inspectors shall be obliged, if required, to open the hogshead, and
shew such
tobacco to the person demanding the same, and shall also reweigh the
same, if
required; and if such person shall refuse to accept of such tobacco as
unmerchantable,
he shall make immediate application to any justice of the peace of the
county where such warehouse shall be, at which the tobacco so refused shall
be
offered in payment, who is no ways related to the parties, nor concerned
in interest;
and the said justice, by warrant under his hand, shall immediately
appoint
three persons, well skilled in tobacco, and no ways related to the parties,
nor concerned in interest, to view and inspect the said tobacco, which
said three
persons so appointed shall immediately, under the penalty of five pounds
current
money each, repair before some justice, and take an oath or affirmation,
as the
case may be, which the said justice is hereby empowered and required to
administer,
that they will carefully uncase, break, view and examine, the tobacco
they are called upon to view and inspect, and that they will not pass any
tobacco
that is not, in their judgment and conscience, sound, clean, unmixed with
trash
or bad tobacco, and in good order and condition, and merchantable, and
that
they will do their duty without fear, favour, affection, malice or partiality;
and
afterwards they shall, under the like penalty, forthwith repair to the
warehouse
where such tobacco shall be offered to be delivered, and shall carefully
view and
examine the said tobacco, and if two of them shall adjudge such tobacco,
or any
part thereof, to be unmerchantable, they shall cause the same to be immediately
burnt, unless the inspector or inspectors who passed the said tobacco shall
desire
to pick the same, in which case the persons chosen to view such tobacco
as aforesaid,
shall cause the said inspector or inspectors to pick the same, and shall
cause
the unmerchantable tobacco therein to be burnt; and for their trouble,
the said
three persons who shall be present at such view, shall be paid, by the
inspector or
inspectors who offered such tobacco, six shillings and eight-pence current
money
each; and if the said persons, or any two of them, shall adjudge such tobacco
to |
|
 |
