304 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

Directions of this Act (except as before excepted:) But that all
such Tobacco, to be received or taken on board any Ship, Sloop, or
other Vessel, and to be therein exported; or to be carried or put on
board any other Ship, Sloop, or Vessel, for Exportation, as afore-
said; shall be received or taken on board at the several Warehouses
for that Purpose herein after mentioned, or some or one of them,
and at no other Place or Places whatsoever. And every Master,

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Mate, or Boatswain, which shall arrive in this Province, in order to
lade Tobacco, during the Continuance of this Act, shall, before the
said Ship or Vessel be permitted to take on board any such Tobacco,

[An Oath to
be adminis-
tered, to
Masters,
Mates, and
Boatswains
of Vessels,
before tak-
ing Tobacco

on board.]

make Oath, or Affirmation, if a Quaker, before the Naval Officer
of the District wherein such Ship or Vessel shall arrive, (which
Oath the said Naval-Officer is hereby impowered and required to
administer); " That they will not permit any such Tobacco to be
taken on board their respective Ships or Vessels, except the same be

packed in Hogsheads, Casks or Cases, stamped by some Inspector,

legally thereunto appointed: " Which Oath they shall subscribe in a
Book, to be kept by the Naval Officer for that Purpose. And if any
such Master shall cause any Person who is not really, and bona fide,
Mate or Boatswain of the Ship, or Vessel, to come on Shore and

[Penalty in
Case of
Default.]

take such Oath, he shall, for the said Offence, forfeit and pay Thirty
Pounds Current Money: And if any Master or Commander of any
Ship or Vessel, shall take on board, or suffer to be taken on board the
Ship or Vessel whereof he is Master, any Tobacco brought from
any other Place, than some or one of the public Warehouses herein
after mentioned, or any Hogshead, Cask or Case of Tobacco, not
stamped by some lawful Inspector, or shall suffer to be brought on
board, any Tobacco, except in Hogsheads, Casks or Cases, stamped
as aforesaid, every such Master and Commander shall forfeit and
pay Thirty Pounds Current Money for every Hogshead, Cask or
Case of Tobacco, which shall not have been brought from one of the
public Warehouses, or which shall not be stamped as aforesaid; and
moreover, every such Hogshead, Cask or Case of Tobacco, shall
be forfeited.

[No Tobacco
to be taken
on board any
sloop, Boat,
&c. in Bulk
or Parcels.]

And forasmuch as the permitting Tobacco in Bulk or Parcels to
be water-born, on Pretence of being carried to the Warehouses estab-
lished by this Act, may give great Opportunity to the clandestine
running the same on board the Ships lying at or near the said Ware-
houses, whereby the Evil of exporting trash Tobacco may be still
continued :
Be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Person, taking upon himself to carry any Tobacco to or from any
of the said Warehouses, in his Sloop, Boat, or other Vessel, for
Hire, shall presume to take on board, or permit or suffer to be taken
on board, any Tobacco whatsoever, in Bulk or Parcels, such Tobacco
shall not only be forfeited, and may be seized by any Person or