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CHAP.
LXI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
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 n inspectors,
&c. |
XXVIII. 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. |
XXIX. And be
it enacted, That the inspector 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 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 hogsheads,
&c. |
XXX. And be
it enacted, That when any person shall be entitled to
receive tobacco, by virtue of any inspector or inspectors notes, the inspector
or inspectors shall be obliged 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 any two of them shall carefully view and examine the sid tobacco,
and if any 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 same 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 eighty-pence current money each; and if the said persons,
or
any two of them, shall adjudge such tobacco to be merchantable, according
to the directions of this act, the sid persons, so attending, shall be |
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