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and pay the sum of twenty pounds current money, to be recovered in any court of record within this state, one half of which forfeiture shall be to and for the use of such inspector refusing such bribe or reward, and the other half to the person who will inform and sue for the same. And there shall be paid to the several Inspector's inspectors, appointed to attend and attending the said salaries, several ware houses, the salaries herein after mentioned, that is to say: At Pitt's, Guilford, and Pungoteague, under one inspection, thirty-five pounds; at Roy's, sixty pounds; at Kennon's, thirty pounds; at Bolling's point, eighty pounds; at Bollingbrooke, eighty pounds; at Cedar Point, eighty pounds, if the ware-houses shall be re-built and inspectors appointed; at Hobb's Hole, thirty-five pounds; at Bowler's, thirty pounds; at Layton's; thirty pounds; at Colchester, fifty - pounds; at Alexandria, forty pounds; at the Falls of Potowmack, forty pounds; at Deacon's Neck, thirty pounds; at Page's, eighty pounds; at Meriwether's, sixty pounds; at Poropotank, thirty pounds; at Rockey Ridge, eighty pounds; at Warwick, seventy pounds; at Osborn's, sixty pounds; at John Bolling's, sixty pounds; at Byrd's, eighty pounds; at Shockoe's, eigh ty pounds; at Rockett's, eighty pounds; at Smithfield & Fulgham's, under one inspection, thirty-five pounds; at Mantapike and Frazer's, under one inspection, forty pounds; at Shepherd's, thirty pounds; at Aylett's and Todd's, under one inspection, forty pounds; at Boyd's Hole and Machodack, under one inspection, forty-five pounds; at Gibson's, thirty pounds, at Davis's and Lowry's, under one inspection, thirty pounds; at Urbanna, thirty pounds; at Coan's and North Wicomico, under one inspection, forty pounds; at Deep Creek and Glasscock's, under one inspection, thirty-five pounds; at Indian Creek and South Wicomico, under one inspection, forty pounds; at Milner's and Wilkinson's under one inspection, forty pounds; at Cherrystone's and Naswaddox, under one inspection, thirty-five pounds; at Littlepage's, thirty-five pounds; at the Brick-House, thirty pounds; at Boyd's, eighty pounds; at Davis's, in Blandford, eighty pounds; at Blandford, eighty pounds; at Quantico, seventy pounds; at Dumfries, seventy-pounds; at Cat Point, thirty pounds; at Totusky, thirty pounds; at Gray's Creek, thirtyfive pounds; at Low-Point, forty pounds; at Falmouth,

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sixty pounds; at Acquia, fifty pounds at Dixon sixty pounds; at Fredericksburg, seventy pounds; at. Royston's, seventy pounds; at Denbigh, twenty-five pounds; at Nominy, thirty pounds; at Leer's and Mad dox, under one inspection, fifty pounds; at Yocomico. and Rust's, under one inspection, forty pounds; at York-Town and the College-Landing, under one in spection, forty pounds; at Hampton, ten pounds.

Method of XXVIII. And for the better detecting inspectors detecting who shall not do their duty, and for the more speedy inspectors who shall and easy examination into complaints against them; not do their Be it enacted. That any two justices of the peace, not duty. being inspectors, shall have power to hear all com plaints against any inspector within their county, and. to take the depositions of witnesses upon the matter of such complaint on both sides, which shall be transmitsed by them to the governor and council, for their de termination. And to the end such depositions may be taken in the best manner, the clerk of the county, or some sufficient person by him to be appointed, shall attend the said justices for that purpose, and, be paid by the county the same fees as is or shall be by law established for attending the examination of witnesses upon a dedimus potestatum. And moreover any two justices shall have power to visit all or any of the public ware-houses within their county, and if they shall dis cover any negligence in the inspectors either in securing the tobacco or stowing the same away in a proper manner for saving the room in such houses, or that they are guilty of any other breach or breaches of their duty, the justices shall certify the governor and coun cil thereof. And if any inspector shall be adjudged guilty of a breach of his duty, he shall be removed from his office, and be for ever after incapable of serv ing as an inspector. And if any inspector shall be removed from his office, upon a complaint and prosecution against him in the method by this act prescribed he shall be liable to the action on the case of the prose cutor for his necessary costs and expences in such pro secution, in which the prosecutor shall recover his full costs of suit, but if the inspector or inspectors shall be acquitted upon such examination, the prosecutor shall be liable to the action of such inspector or inspectors for the recovery of all damages and expenses which he or they shall have sustained or been put to by suck

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prosecution and costs, unless the governor and council shall certify that there was reasonable cause for such complaint; and every inspector shall moreover be liable to the action of the party grieved for all loss and damage that may happen or arise to any person by occasion of any failure of duty or neglect of any such inspector, in which action the plaintiff shall recover bis full costs, although the damages do not exceed forty shillings.

XXIX. And be it further enacted, That all tobacco How tobac due or to grow due and payable for public, county, co due for le and parish levies, or for clerks, sheriffs, surveyors, or vies, clerk's, sheriffs, sur: other officers fees, shall be paid and discharged by veyors, or transfer receipts in the following manner, that is to other offi

say All levies shall be paid in some ware-house in cers fees, shall be paid the county where such levies are laid, and all officers fees in the county where the person chargeable therewith lives, except such person shall have a plantation with slaves thereon in the county where the service is performed, and then all fees shall be paid in such county; but the said levies and fees due and payable in any county where no public ware-house is established shall be paid at some ware-house in the next adjacent county. Provided always, That the receipts from the ware-houses hereafter mentioned shall pass in payment of all levies and officers fees payable in the counties following, that is to say: In the county of Accomack, Cherrystone's and Naswaddox; in the county of Albe marle, Page's, Fredericksburg, Roystons, Meriwether's, Rockey Ridge, Byrd's, Shockoe's, and Rocket's; Amelia, Charlotte, Halifax, Henry, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Pittsylvania, and Prince Edward, at Blandford, Bolling's Point, Bollingbrooke, Davis's, Cedar-Point, Boyd's, Rockey Ridge, Warwick, and Osborn's; Amherst, at Byrd's, Shockoe's, Rockett's, Rockey Ridge, Page's, and Meriwether's; Bedford and Campbell, at Byrd's, Shockoe's, Rockett's, Rockey Ridge, and Warwick, Brunswick & Greensville, at Blandford, Bolling's Point, Bollingbrooke, John Bolling's, Boyd's, Davis's, Cedar Point, Smithfield, Fulgham's, LowPoint, and Gray's Creek, Nansemond, at Smithfield, Fulgham's, and Low-Point; Buckingham, at Byrd's, Shockoe's; Rocketts, Rockey Ridge, Warwick, and Osborne's; Caroline, at Todd's, Aylett's, and Lay son's Culpeper, at Dixon's, Quantico, Dumfries, Ac

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quin, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, and Royston's; Cum
berland and Powhatan, at Byrd's, Shockoe's, Rock
en's, Rockey Ridge, Warwick, and Osbornes: Din-
widdie, at Blandford, Boyd's John Bolling's, and
Davis's; Elizabeth City, at Hampton, Essex, at Port
Royal, Todd's, and Mantipike, Fauquier, at Fal-
mouth, Dixon's, Quantico, Dumfries, and Acquia;
Goochland and Fluvanna, at Byrd's, Shockoe's, Rock-
ett's, Page's, Meriwether's, and Rockey Ridge; James
City, at Littlepage's, Kennon's, the Brick-House,
York, and College-Landing; King George, at Dix-
on's Falmouth, and Mattox; Isle of Wight, at Ken-
fron's, Wilkinson's, and Milner's; King William, at
Meriwether's and Page's; Lancaster, at Indian Creek,
Loudenn, at any of the ware-houses in Fairfax and
Prince William; Louisa and Orange, at Fredericks-
burg, Royston's, Page's, Meriwether's, Byrd's, Shoc-
koe's, and Rockett's; Norfolk, at any of the ware-houses
in Nansemend and Elizabeth City, Northampton, at
Pitt's, Guilford, and Pungoteague; New-Kent, at the
Brick-House, Littlepage's, and Kennon's; Northum-
berland, at Yocomico and Rust's; Prince George, at
Bolling's Point, John Bolling's, Cedar-Point, Bol
lingbrooke, Davis's, Blandford, Low-Point, Gray's
Creek, and Kennon's; Prince William, at Alexandria,
Acquia, and Colchester; Fairfax, at Quantico and
Dumfries, Gloncester, at Deacon's Neck and Poropo-
tank, Princess Anne, at any of the ware-houses in
Nansemond and Elizabeth City; Southampton, at any..
of the ware-houses in Isle of Wight and at Low-Point
Stafford, at Boyd's Hole, Gibson's, Dumfries, and
Quantico; Surry, at Kennon's, Blandford, Boyd's,
and Davis's; Sussex, at Blandford, Bolling's Point,
Bollingbrooke, John Bolling's, Davis's, Boyd's, Ce-
dar Point, Gray's Creek, Low-Point, and Smithfield
Westmoreland. at Machodack and Gibson's; York, at
College-Landing, Denbigh, and the Brick-House.

XXX. And be it further enacted, That all public, and officers county, and parish levies, sheriffs, clerks, surveyors, fees may be and other officers fees, payable in tobacco, shall be distrained paid and satisfied, by the persons chargeable with, and indebted for the same, to the sheriffs or other collect ors, by transfer receipts before the tenth day of June yearly. And if any person chargeable with the levies and fees aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to pay the

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