4 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

U. H. J.

Storehouses after it has been View'd and approved may take one or
more Promissory Notes for the same under the hand and Seal or
Stamp of the Inspectors payable to the Bearer which Notes shall be
Current in all Tobacco Payments and shall be Answer'd by the
Inspectors at the Storehouses from whence they Issued, Deducting
a reasonable Allowance for shrinkage in Cask to be deliver'd out
thence only for shipping.
That for defraying the Charges of building or hireing Store-
houses providing Scales and Weights, Erecting Wharfs for the
Shipping of Tobacco and for paying the Annual Salaries of the
Inspectors in proportion to the trouble they have respectively, there
be paid for each Hogshead of Tobacco Stamp'd as aforesaid by the
Owner or purchaser thereof the sum of Two Shillings and six pence
to be accounted for to a Publick Treasurer and by him Issued for the
purposes aforesaid.
That for preventing any undue preference in the payment of the
Tobacco Sold at the Storehouses, and for which Transferable Notes
are given as aforesaid, no Inspector during his being such shall
directly or indirectly for himself or any other person buy any
Tobacco whatsoever neither shall take or receive any Fee or Reward
for doing his Duty other then the Annual Sallary aforementioned,
and such Fee as shall be Judged reasonable for making out Signing
and Stamping the Transferrable notes for Sale Tobacco.

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NB. The Merchants now pay from Two Shillings to Two Shil-
lings and Six pence to the common Receivers for every Hogshead of
Tobacco they purchase, and very often are deceived by the fraud or
negligence of those Receivers so that the Fee of Two Shillings and
Six pence p hogshead now proposed will be much better employ'd
when the Tobacco is to pass the View of Men of better Skill and
Character.
And to the end the Ships may not be delay'd in the Country by a
tedious Expectation of Lading, nor put to the charge of fetching
Tobacco from the Houses and Plantations of the Inhabitants, which
now Costs them in Sloop hire mens wages &c. at least Three Shillings
p hogshead.
It is proposed.
That the Tobacco be delivered at the Store houses by the people
themselves or Transported thither in Sloops or Boats belonging to
the Country and that in recompense for the trouble and for the Con-
veniency of having their Ladings ready where the Ships lye, which
they are fetch'd on Board with their own Boats and men, the Master
of the ships shall allow and pay to the Freighter Two Shillings p
Hogshead and that no Ships Boat or Men shall be suffered to take
on Board any Tobacco but from the Store houses only and that to be
carried on Board the Ship directly for Transportation.