JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, NOVEMBER.

1801.

repairs, or other necessary conveniences, as shall or may be wanting at any other times of the
year, and such as the said justices shall direct, it shall and may be lawful for the said justices, and
they are hereby required, to have the same done at the expence of the county; and the justices
of such county shall receive so much of the rent of the said warehouse of the inspectors, which
they are hereby directed to withhold from the proprietors, and obliged to pay to the justices, as
will reimburse the county the charges of such buildings, additions and repairs; and if upon ap-
plication of the inspectors to the justices aforesaid, for building, enlarging or repairing, any ware-
houses or wharfs, such justices shall refuse or delay to do their duty therein, every justice, so re-
fusing or neglecting, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars.

CHAP.
LXIII.

XXXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases under the late inspection law, where the
owners or proprietors of warehouses have given the same up to be repaired at the expence of the
county, or where warehouses have been built at the expence of the county, and the rents already
received have not reimbursed the money advanced in building or repairing such warehouses, the
justices of the levy courts of the said counties shall receive the rents of all such warehouses from
the inspector or inspectors, under the present act, until the whole money advanced as aforesaid, and
interest thereon, shall be repaid, and they are hereby authorised to allow, out of the sums so re-
ceived, such compensation to the proprietor of any land on which such warehouse may stand, as
they in their discretion may think right and proper, not exceeding twenty dollars per year.

And to receive
rents, &c.

XXXIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when and as often as a new inspector or inspectors shall be
appointed in the place of the inspector or inspectors who served at the same warehouse the pre-
ceding year, the said new inspector or inspectors shall, within ten days after he or they shall be
qualified to serve as an inspector or inspectors, make out two fair manifests in writing, signed by
such new inspector or inspectors, of all the tobacco then in the same warehouse, (which tobacco
the old inspector or inspectors are hereby obliged and directed to deliver, well nailed, lined and fit
for shipping, to the new inspector or inspectors,) describing in the said manifests the marks, num-
bers, gross, tare and net weights, of such tobacco, and shall sign a receipt at the foot of each
manifest for all such tobacco received from the old inspector or inspectors, and shall deliver both
manifests to the old inspector or inspectors, the one of which manifests shall be by him or them
lodged, within ten days thereafter, with the clerk of the county, under the penalty of three hun-
dred dollars on each inspector neglecting to make such manifests, and the same penalty on the old
inspedtor or inspectors who shall neglect to lodge the same with the county clerk within ten days
after such list shall be delivered to him or them, unless a reasonable excuse be offered by such
new or old inspector for any such neglect ; and the new inspector or inspectors is, and are hereby
declared to be, answerable to the owners of any notes mentioned and descried in such manifests,
so far as to produce the same hogshead or hogsheads of tobacco belonging to any owner ; and the
said new inspector or inspectors shall be liable for, and answerable to, the old inspector or inspec-
tors, for all damage that shall happen to such tobacco mentioned in the manifests aforesaid, through
the negligence of the said new inspector or inspectors, during the time of his or their serving as
inspector or inspectors.

New inspectors
to make out
manifests, &c.

XL. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every justice who shall be appointed, and shall attend to exe-
cute any duty imposed by this act, shall be allowed the sum of two dollars for every day he shall
necessarily attend in consequence of such appointment, in the next county assessment; and
every inspector who shall meet and attend the justices aforesaid at the court-house, shall be allow-
ed two dollars per day, in the next county assessment, for his attendance.

Justices to be
allowed, &c.

XLI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inspector or inspectors of tobacco at the several ware-
houses within this state, shall immediately on the delivery of every hogshead of tobacco at the
warehouse whereof they are inspectors, weigh and give a receipt for such tobacco, if required by
the proprietor, or person bringing the same to the said warehouse, expressing therein, that the
same is for uninspected tobacco, which receipt shall be given up to the inspectors, upon the said
tobacco's being inspected, and before the inspectors shall be obliged to deliver notes therefor.

Inspectors to

give receipts
&c.

XLII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or build, or
cause to be erected or built, any chimney, except brick or stone, within one hundred yards of any
public warehouse in this state; and where any chimney, except brick or stone, is already built
within the distance aforesaid from any public warehouse, the owner or proprietor of the said chim-
ney shall pull down the same, or on refusal or neglect so to do in six months after the passing
this act, it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff of the county, and he is hereby required, upon
P notice

Wooden chim-
nies not to be
built, &c.