and required, to provide good and sufficient warehouses for the storage of hemp, flour, or deer-skins, as the same are respectively made receivable at the said towns, and stone-house in the county of Botetourt, in the manner herein before directed, and to appoint one And appoint or two reputable persons, as the case may require, one or two within the said towns respectively, and at the stone- receivers at house in the county of Botetourt, for the receiving, each place safe-keeping, and delivery of the said hemp, flour, or deer-skins, on public account, and for inspecting the said hemp, who, in the receipts given by them, or either of them, shall specify the names of the persons or owners delivering the same, the number and quantity of each bundle of hemp, and the ware-house, number, and nett weight of each barrel of inspected flour received, for which the inspectors manifest shall be produced, and filed at the said ware-house, as a voucher to prove the inspection thereof, before the delivery by the owner; and the said courts respectively are here- And allowby authorized to allow to the inspectors or receivers ance. aforesaid, for their risk and trouble, five per cent. in money, valuing the articles by them received at the price they are estimated at in this act, which they shall certify to the auditors of public accounts; and all other expences attending the said ware-houses for the receiving and delivering of the hemp and flour aforesaid, shall be allowed and certified in like manner, and shall be paid out of the money in the public treasury arising from the sale thereof; and the said receivers or inspectors of hemp and flour, or deer-skins, shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, give bond in a reasonable penalty, payable to the treasurer for the time being, or to his successors, for the use of the commonwealth, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the duties required of them by law in the execution of their said office; and in case of failure in any court to appoint an inspector or receiver respec- courtsfailing Penalty on tively as aforesaid, such court shall be liable to the same penalties as is provided in the case of the justices neglecting or refusing to take and return lists of the enumerated articles, to be recovered and applied in like manner; and such inspector or receiver shall be liable to damages upon the action of the party grieved, ceivers. and shall moreover forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred pounds, recoverable on information in any court, for the use of the commonwealth.

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IV. And be it further enacted, That hemp, flour, and all other articles directed to be paid by this act, shall be weighed by the nett weight or short hundred, and that the several certificates for hemp and flour shall be separate, so that the several commutable articles may appear in a clear and distinct view.

V. And be it further enacted, That the treasurer may receive shall and may receive from any sheriff or collector, partial pay who shall obtain the certificate of the auditors of any partial settlement made with them, such sums of money, or quantities of tobacco, hemp, flour, or deer skins, or sums in warrants and certificates receivable by law, as such sheriff or collector shall tender him in payment for the same, and grant his receipts accordingly.

VI. And whereas very great loss has been hereto fore sustained by the article of hemp, owing to the carelessness of the inspectors or receivers thereof, or other causes: That the like may in future be preventHemp may ed, Be it enacted, That the purchaser or person receivbe reviewed ing the notes for hemp, from the public, may at his by the pur own proper cost and charges upon delivery thereof,

giving notice to the inspector or receiver, open and review the hemp so to him delivered, and if the same shall appear unmerchantable or damaged, it shall and may be lawful for any two justices of the peace for the Proceeding county in which such hemp shall have been stored, upon application of the person demanding the same, to issue their warrant, directed to seven men well skilled in the quality of hemp, who, or any five of them, having first taken an oath to do impartial justice between the person demanding the hemp, and the public inspector or receiver, shall examine the quality and condition thereof, and if it shall be found by them that the same is not sound, clean, and merchantable, they shall make report thereof, and such hemp shall, by order of two justices (upon such report to them presented) be directed to be sold at public vendue, for ready money, What satis- upon such notice as to them shall seem reasonable; and faction shall if the said hemp shall not sell for the current price of be made by good merchantable hemp (which price shall be affixed