When the

ty aforesaid, That the same be established for each inspector, according to the following rates, viz. at Smithfield, and Smith's, under one inspection, thirty five pounds per annum; at Curl's, near Hampton, twenty five pounds per annum; at Falmouth, forty pounds per annum; at Dixon's, forty pounds per annum, at Byrd's, fifty pounds per annum; at Walkerton, and Waller's, under one inspection, thirty five pounds per annum; at Osborne's, forty pounds per annum; at Occoquan, and Peyton's, under one inspection, thirty five pounds per annum; at Pohich, thirty pounds per annum; at Page's fifty pounds per annum; at Crutchfield's, fifty pounds per annum; at Acquia, thirty five pounds per annum; at Cabin-Point, fifty pounds per annum; at Bolling's point, fifty pounds per annum; at Cat-Point, and Beckwith's, under the same inspection, thirty five pounds per annum; at Pleasant's, and Woodson's, under one inspection, thirty pounds per annum; at Bermuda-Hundred, twenty pounds per annum.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforeinspectors said, That all inspectors of tobacco, do constantly atare to attend tend their duty at the warehouses under their charge, their duty. from the twentieth day of October, to the last day of August, yearly, (except Sundays, and holidays observed at Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide, or when hindered by sickness) and if any inspector, thro' sickness or other inability, shall be unable to discharge the duties of his office, it shall and may be lawful, for the governor, or commander in chief, by and with the advice and consent of the council, to appoint one of the persons nominated in the recommendation of the county court, for such inspection, to act in the stead of such sick or disabled inspeetor; which inspector so appointed, shall execute the office of inspector during the time of the sickness, or other inability of the former inspector, and shall be entitled to take and receive of the salary due at such inspection, in proportion to the time he shall officiate.

Proviso.

All inspect

ors to ac

VI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed to hinder any inspector of an adjacent warehouse, to view and inspect tobacco, as in the said act is directed, till a person shall be appointed as aforesaid.

VII. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That all inspectors of tobacco, shall hereafter

account with the treasurer, in the manner as prescri- count with bed and set down by the before recited act, on or be- the treasurfore the twentieth day of October annually.

er.

whether the

VIII. And be it further enacted, by the authority afore- Their resaid, That from after the commencement of this act, ceipts are to the several inspectors do, in their receipts for tobac- express co, express whether the same is tied in bundles or not; Tobacco is and where any hogshead hath part leaf and part stem- tied in bunmed, they shall likewise signify the same, at the bot- dles or not, tom of such receipt, and that they shall not mix stemm'd and leaf tobacco, in any hogshead, which they shall leaf. prize, and pay away in discharge of transfer notes by them given out.

and whether

notes of an

lawful ten

How inspec

IX. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That no crop or transfer notes, of the county of Prince-William, shall pass in any payment of levies, quit-rents, or officers fees, becoming due in the county of Culpeper: And that no crop notes, or receipts, of No crop an older date than eighteen months, shall be a lawful older date tender, in discharge of any tobacco-debt whatsoever, than 18 and if any tobacco hath remained, or shall hereafter re- months, a main undemanded, in a public warehouse, three years der for any after the same is inspected; the inspectors at such tobacco warehouse shall advertise in the Virginia Gazette, a debt. list of the marks, numbers, and weights of such tobacco; and if no owner appears to claim the same, within six months, they shall, at the next court to be held for the county in which such warehouse shall be, bacco reafter the expiration thereof, deliver to the said court, mains undethe like list; which court is hereby impowered and re-manded 3 quired, to order the same to be sold publickly, at the inspection. court-house door, on a court day, to the highest bidder, and the money arising from the sale thereof, shall be paid by the inspectors, to the treasurer of this colony for the time being, who shall account for the same, from time to time, to the General Assembly. And if any person, having a right in any tobacco so sold, shall prove his property therein, the said treasurer, shall repay, to such person, the money for which such tobacco was sold.

X. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That no inspector shall hereafter take in any note or receipt for crop-tobacco, and afterwards give transfer notes in exchange for the same, unless the hogshead specified in such note or receipt, shall conbain at least nine hundred and fifty pounds, of nett DD-Vol. 6.

tors are to act if any to

years after

In what counties the notes of the

several

payment.

tobacco, and not mixed leaf and stemm'd; any thing in the before recited act, to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.

XI. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the notes of the several warehouses hereafter mentioned, shall pass in payment of all levies, warehouses quitrents, and officer's fees, payable in the counties shall pass in following; that is to say, the notes of Fredericksburg, Royston's, Falmouth, and Dixon's, shall pass in the county of Culpeper; the notes of Warwick, Osborne's, Bermuda-Hundred. John Bolling's, Cabbin-Point, and Bolling's Point, shall pass in the counties of Prince George, and Dinwiddie; the notes of Cabbin-Point, Maycox, and Jordan's, shall pass in the county of Southampton; the notes of Smithfield, shall pass in the County of Surry; the notes of Fredericksburg and Royston's, shall pass in the county of Albemarle, and the notes of Shockoe's, and Byrd's, shall pass in the county of Cumberland.

The abatement:

XII. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That out of every hundred pounds of tobacco, which shall be paid in discharge of quit-rents, secretary's, clerks, sheriffs, surveyors, or other officers fees, in the counties hereafter mentioned, and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity, there shall be the following abatements, or allowances to the payer, that is to say, for tobacco due in the counties of Culpeper, and Cumberland, the person paying shall and may retain in his hands, thirty pounds of tobacco, for every hundred so due from him; for tobacco due in the counties of Isle of Wight, and Prince-George, ten pounds of tobacco; for tobacco due in the counties of Southampton and Dinwiddie, twenty pounds of tobacco; and for tobacco due in the county of Chesterfield, fourteen pounds of tobacco.

Inspectors XIH. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforemay be col said, That so much of the said recited act, as prohilectors of his bits inspectors to be collectors of his majesty's quitmajesty's rents, or of any public, county, or parish levies, or any officers fees, or to buy and receive for themselves, ́or any other person, by way of barter, loan, or exchange, any tobacco whatsoever, within two years after they are out of office, under a penalty therein mentioned, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Seafaring

men to give

XIV. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforespecial bail. said, That when any action shall be commenced

and prosecuted against any seafaring person, founded on this or the before recited act, such person shall not be admitted to appear to such action, until he or they shall have given special bail; any law or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.

act.

XV. And be it further enacted, by the authority afore- The comsaid, That this act shall commence and be in force, mencement from and immediately after the passing thereof, and and continu together with the said recited act, For amending the ance of this staple of tobacco, and preventing frauds in his majes ty's customs, for so much thereof as is not repealed or altered by this act, shall continue in force, until the twentieth day of October, in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, and from thence to the end of the next session of Assembly.

CHAP. IV.

An Act for erecting a Light-House at
Cape-Henry.

I. WHEREAS the erecting and maintaining a lighthouse at Cape-Henry, will greatly conduce to the safe- Preamble. ty and preservation of ships, and other vessels, coming into, and going out of the bay of Chesapeak; and the expence of such building, and keeping a light therein, may be defrayed by a small and inconsiderable duty on the tonnage of such ships, and vessels, to be paid by their owners or masters, in consideration of the immediate benefits arising to them. To the end therefore, that a work of such public use, may be compleated with all convenient speed;

II. BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and Burgesses of this present General Assembly, and

it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That Directors the honorable John Blair, and Thomas Nelson, esqrs. appointed. Lunsford Lomax, Róbert Tucker, Samuel Boush the younger, John Hutchings, Edward Hack Mosely, Anthony Walke the younger, John Norton, William Westwood, John Tabb, Littleton Eyre, Lemuel Riddick, Samual Boush, Jacob Elligood, Jacob Walker,

and John Hunter, gentlemen; shall be, and are hereby appointed directors and managers, for the erecting and finishing, or causing to be erected and finished, at such convenient place, on the head land of CapeHenry, as to them in their discretion shall appear most proper for that purpose, a good and substantial light-house of such height and dimensions as they shall think best: And the said directors and managers, or any nine of them, shall have power and authority, by virtue of this act, to contract and agree with any person or persons. for building and finishing such lighthouse, in the best and most substantial manner, upon such terms as to them shall seem reasonable, and also for placing, and constantly keeping a light therein; which agreement, or agreements, being by them certified to the governor, or commander in chief of this dominion, and a warrant thereupon obtained from him, to the treasurer of Virginia for the time being, the said treasurer is hereby authorised and required, out of the public monies in his hands, to pay the sum or sums so certified, to be due unto the person or persons, to whom the same shall be ordered by the said directors.

III. And for reimbursing the monies so advanced, and for the maintenance and support of the said lighthouse, in all time to come: Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the kindling, or placing, a light, useful for shipping, in the said light-house, there shall be paid by the masters or owners of all ships, and other vessels, coming into, or going out of the said bay of Chesapeak, once every voyage, at the time of their clearing out, the duty of Duty to be two pence per ton, of the burthen of each ship or vespaid by mas-sel, to be collected and received, by the respective colters of ships. lectors, er officers, who shall be appointed to receive the same, which duty shall be to our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors for ever, for the uses, and purposes, hereafter mentioned, and by them to be accounted for, and paid to the treasurer of Virginia, in the same manner, and with the like salary, for collecting, as they are by law directed to account for the duties upon liquors, and.by the said treasurer shall be accounted for to the General Assembly, to be by them applied, and ordered, for the reimbursing the monies so advanced, and for the future support and