| 1789.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
notes, to contain nine hundred pounds f 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 seventeen shillings and six-pence current money 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. |
Owner of any
transfer note
may receive
hogsheads,
&c. |
XXXII. And be
it enacted, That the owner of any transfer note may, at
any time, receive and mark hogsheads of tobacco for satisfying such notes,
and
the inspector or inspectors shall take in his or their former notes, and
deliver
crop notes and receipts for such hogshead, and shall be answerable for
the safekeeping
thereof in the same manner as they are for crop tobacco, but the person
receiving such hogshead shall pay to the inspector or inspectors the sum
of seventeen
shillings and six-pence current money for the cask, nails and prizing,
and
the inspector or inspectors shall sell all transfer tobacco which shall
not be so
received and marked, on the second day of holding the court, if fair weather,
if not, on the first fair day thereafter, of the court of their respective
counties
in the months of September and November on the eastern shore, yearly, by
public
auction, in single hogsheads, and not otherwise, and shall pay the money
arising
by such sale at the average price of the sale of tobacco belonging to each
house,
in satisfaction of their notes, from time to time, to the proprietors thereof
making their demand, under the same penalty as is inflicted for not paying
inspectors notes. |
Transfer tobacco
subject
to charges,
&c. |
XXXIII. And
be it enacted, That all transfer tobacco, when prized in
hogsheads, shall be subject to the same charges for inspection, and otherwise,
as
crop tobacco is subject to. |
Every hogshead
o be entered
in a
book, &c. |
XXXIV. And be
it enacted, That the inspector or inspectors shall carefully
enter in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose alone, every hogshead
of tobacco viewed, passed, stamped and branded, by him or them, and the
quality thereof, and the maker's mark, and warehouse 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 loan 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,
maybe so full as not to be capable of stowing all the tobacco contained
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