ed in similar cases, shall be lodged with the clerk of the court of that county where the tobacco was inspected, to be by him transmitted to the auditors of public accounts, on or before the twenty-fifth day of October annually, to be by them compared with the inspectors accounts. And in case the owner of the tobacco shall suspect any fraud to have been practised or used by any skipper or waggoner in the transportation thereof from either of the said warehouses, it shall be lawful for the inspectors at any warehouse to which the same may be brought, and they are hereby required, at the request of such owner, to re-inspect and weigh the same, and if found to be damaged or embezzled, the inspectors shall not enter the same in their books, but it shall remain subject to the directions of the owner, in like manner as other damaged tobacco.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the appointment of inspectors, and all other regulations appertaining to the said warehouses, shall be the same as is provided for by law for other inspections, so far as the same do not contravene this act. All tobacco inspected at either of the said warehouses, shall be subject to the same duties and imposts, and be collected and accounted for by the inspectors in the same manner and under the like penalties, as are directed and prescribed for other warehouses heretofore established. And the inspectors at each of the said warehouses, may demand and receive for each hogshead by them inspected, the sum of four shillings, one shilling whereof to be by them accounted for and paid to the proprietor for the rent of the warehouse, and the residue for their own ase. Provided nevertheless, That no person shall be obliged to receive any notes, passed at any of the said warehouses, in discharge of any tobacco contracts heretofore entered into. And whereas great advantages may be derived to the commonwealth, by encouraging the manufacture of tobacco:

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V. Be it therefore enacted, That the inspectors at the Manufacture several warehouses within this commonwealth, shall of tobacco, deliver any inspected tobacco to any person or persons eerning. who shall duly demand such tobacco for the purpose of manufacturing the same, and grant him or them a manifest therefor, upon such persons paying the usual duties, and lodging with them a certificate of his or their having before some court of record within this com

monwealth entered into bond, with sufficient security, in the penalty of one thousand pounds, payable to the governor and his successors, for the use of the commonwealth, with condition that he or they will not export, or cause or suffer to be exported, either by land or water, any tobacco received by him or them for the purpose of manufacturing, until it has been so manufactured: Nevertheless, it shall be lawful to export any such manufactured tobacco, affidavit being made before a magistrate that the said tobacco had been inspected and passed at some inspection before the same was manufactured, although the same be not packed in hogsheads any law to the contrary, notwithstanding.

Inspection of

tobacco at

CHAP. XXI.

An act for establishing an inspection of tobacco at Kinsale, and discontinuing that at Rust's warehouse, and for other purposes.

I. BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Kinsale esta- inspection of tobacco at Rust's warehouse, in the counblished; and ty of Westmoreland, shall from and after the tenth day Rust's ware of February next, be discontinued, and thenceforth an house discontinued. inspection of tobacco shall be, and the same is hereby established on the lands of Catesby Jones, in the town of Kinsale, to be called and known by the name of Kinsale; provided the said Jones shall build convenient houses at his own expence. The transfer notes issued by the inspectors thereof, shall be payable for public dues in like manner as those of Rust's warehouse, and shall be under the same inspection with Yeocomico.

Robert Bol

house remo

II. And be it further enacted, That from and after ling's ware- the first day of October next, the inspection of tobacco at Robert Bolling's warehouse, shall be removed to, and established on the lands of the proprietors thereof adjoining to Bolling's and Tabb's mill, and that conve

ved.

bient and proper houses shall be built thereon at the expence of the proprietors. The inspection of tobacco at Shepherd's warehouse, in the county of King and Queen, shall be, and the same is hereby revived and Inspection at established, for and during the term of two years.

Suffolk revi

warehouses.

III. And be it further enacted, That the inspection ved. of tobacco in the town of Suffolk is hereby revived and established, the proprietors of the land being willing to Rules as to rebuild convenient houses thereon. inspectors saIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That laries, at Suf if at the expiration of two years from the passing of this folk & other act, the quantity of tobacco taken at Suffolk warehouse shall not be sufficient to pay the rents and inspectors salaries, that thenceforth the said inspection shall be discontinued. There shall be allowed and paid annually, to each of the inspectors at Shepherd's, the sum of twenty-five pounds; to each of the inspectors at Suffolk, the sum of twenty-five pounds; to each of the in spectors at Petersburg warehouse, the sum of eighty pounds; and to each of the inspectors at John Bolling's, the sum of seventy pounds; and no more. And whereas, by an act of assembly passed in May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, intituled "An act to amend and reduce the several acts of assembly for the inspection of tobacco, into one act;" it is among other things declared and enacted, "That in case any of the said warehouses therein named, shall not after the first day of October next, and before the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, receive a sufficient quantity of tobacco to pay the inspectors salaries and rents of the warehouses, the inspection of tobacco at such warehouses respectively shall be thenceforth discontinued, unless the same shall be supported at private expence: Provided, That this clause shall not extend to the discontinuance at one time, of two or more warehouses which may be in the same county, or county next adjacent; but in such cases that warehouse shall be discontiued to which the smallest quantity of tobacco may be brought in the years aforesaid:" And it is judged expedient that the operation of Act as to disthe said clause should be suspended:

continuance

V. Be it therefore enacted, That the operation of the of warehous said clause shall be, and the same is hereby suspended, es suspended

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from and after the said first day of October last, until the first day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.

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tobacco at

Lynch's fer

CHAP. XXII.

An act for establishing certain inspections of tobacco.

Inspections of 1, WHEREAS it Iras been represented to this present general assembly, that it would be of great public ry, in Camp. utility to establish warehouses for the reception and inbell, and at spection of tobacco at John Lynch's ferry, on the land Point of Fork of the said Lynch on James river, in the county of established. Campbell, and at the Point of Fork, in the county of

in Fluvanna

Fluvanna, on the lands of David Ross; and that the

proprietors of the said lands are willing to build convenient houses at their own expence:

II. Be it therefore enacted, That inspections of tobacco shall be, and the same are hereby established, on the land of the said John Lynch, at his ferry in the said county of Campbell, to be called and known by the name of Lynch's; and at the point of Fork, in the County of Fluvanna, on the lands of David Ross, to be called and known by the name of Rivanna warehouse. "There shall be allowed and paid annually, to each of the inspectors at the said warehouses, the sum of thirty Rules for transporting pounds for their salary. The inspectors at the said the tobacco warehouses, upon the delivery of their notes, or an orto other ware der where they have not issued notes, shall deliver the tobacco for transportation, with a manifest of the same, expressing the owner's name, the name of the skipper of the batteau or canoe, with the marks, number, and weight of the tobacco, and stamped with the warehouse's name; which tobacco, with the manifest, shall be delivered to the inspectors at Byrd's, Shockoe's, Manchester, Rocky Ridge, or Rockett's, who are hereby required to receive the same, and enter the said tobacco agreeable to the said manifest, in books to be

houses, on

tide water.

by them provided and kept for that purpose, and grant their receipts for the same to the owners thereof, and be delivered for exportation, when required. The inspectors at the last mentioned warehouses are hereby empowered to examine and weigh any tobacco to them delivered, when required by the owner thereof, and if found to be damaged or embezzled, the same shall not be entered in the books, but remain in the warehouse, subject to the direction of the owner, in like manner as other damaged tobacco.

Warehouse

tion,

III, Be it further enacted, That the inspectors at each of the said warehouses of Byrd's, Shockoe's, Man- rent on tobac chester, Rocky Ridge, or Rocketts, shall demand and co brought receive for all tobacco brought to the said warehouses, from an up. by virtue of this act, the same warehouse rent as is al per inspeclowed for tobacco relanded from on board any vessel, and be appropriated in the manner directed by law for the appropriation of the tax or rent on such relanded tobacco. The impost and duty on tobacco inspected at the said warehouses, shall be the same, and collected, accounted for, and paid in like manner as is directed and prescribed by law for other tobacco inspections, except where it shall be otherwise particularly directed by this act

IV. And be it further enacted, That the county courts of Campbell and Fluvanna, be empowered, and they are hereby required, to recommend fit persons for each of the said inspections in the months of March or April next, to inspect all tobacco that shall be brought to the said warehouses. Provided nevertheless, That no person shall be obliged to receive any notes for tobacco passed at either of the said warehouses, in discharge of any tobacco contract heretofore entered into.