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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
his duty in the office of an inspector, according to the best of his
skill and judgment, and according to the directions of the said act; and
the said commissioner or commissioners shall immediately cause the said
bond to be proved by the witnesses thereto, and shall forthwith endorse
the probate on the back thereof, and transmit the said bond to the clerk
of the county court within ten days, who shall record the same, with
the
endorsement thereon, and transmit it to the clerk of the general court,
who shall immediately record the same bond, and endorsement aforesaid,
and immediately afterwards deliver the original bond to the register of
the
chancery court, to be by him safely kept in the chancery office; and an
attested copy of the said bond and probate, from either of the said records,
shall be as good evidence in la to maintain an action of debt for any
breach of the condition of the said bond, as if the same was actually produced
and proved in court; and the same bond may be sued by any person
entitled as holder of any note of such inspector, for the nonpayment
or not delivering the tobacco mentioned in such note, and on nonsuit or
judgment for defendant, the person suing such bond shall be liable
for
costs, and any person bringing suit on such bond, may be awarded by the
court to give security for costs; and if the same person be continued inspector,
he shall on every appointment, give bond as aforesaid, with other
and good security, and shall qualify as aforesaid. |
1785.
CHAP.
LXI. |
XVIII. And be
it enacted, That the justices of the several counties, or
any three or more of them, shall, at the time of making their county assessment,
ascertain salaries, in current money, for the inspectors within
their county and if the reward allowed by this act for inspection shall
not
be sufficient to satisfy the said salaries and warehouse rent, and other
charges
of the inspection houses within their counties, the said justices shall
assess in their county assessment, a sum of money sufficient to discharge
the same. |
Justices to ascertain
their
salaries, &c. |
XIX. And be
it enacted, That no inspector shall, directly or indirectly,
during his continuance in the said office, buy, or receive any tobacco
by
way of barter, loan, or exchange, or any way intermeddle with, or busy
himself in procuring, tobacco, to be sold or consigned to any merchant,
or in loading any ship or vessel with tobacco, except the proper tobacco
of such inspector, under the penalty of five pounds current money for
every hogshead of tobacco so bought or received, or procured to be sold
or consigned, contrary to this act; provided that any inspector may receive
his own proper rents or debts in tobacco. |
Inspectors not
to buy tobacco,
&c. |
XX. And be it
enacted, That if any person shall erase, cut out, burn
out, blot out, or in anywise alter, change or deface, any letter, mark,
number or figure, stamped or branded, or burnt on, or set upon, any hogshead
by any inspector, and if any person shall counterfeit any letter, mark,
number or figure, on any hogshead, such person shall forfeit fifty pounds
current money for every such offence. |
Penalty on
persons altering
marks,
&c. |
XXI. And,
for the direction of inspectors in their duty, Be
it enacted,
That if any inspector shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly,
any
gratuity or reward, for any thing by him done in pursuance of this
act,
other than his salary, every such inspector, being thereof convicted, shall
forfeit and pay one hundred pounds current money, and shall be disabled
from holding the office of inspector, during the continuance of this act;
and if any person shall offer any gratuity, reward or bribe, to any
inspector,
for any thing by him to be done in pursuance of this act, and shall
be thereof convicted, such person shall, for every such offence, forfeit
and
pay one hundred pounds current money. |
Inspectors not
to accept gratuities,
&c. |
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