1756, Lancaster County Tobacco Proprietors - Lancaster Co. VA ---------------- MARCH 1756 --- 29th GEORGE II CHAP. IX. An Act for continuing and amending an Act, intituled [sic], An Act for the relief of the proprietors of the Tobacco burnt at Bolling’s-Point warehouse, in the county of Dinwiddie, and for the relief of the proprietors of Tobacco burnt in Coan and Deep-Creek warehouses. 1. WHEREAS in and by an act of Assembly, made in the twenty eight year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for the relief of the proprietors of the tobacco burnt in Bolling’s-Point warehouse, in the county of Dinwiddie, among other things a duty of three shillings and six-pence is imposed for every hogshead of tobacco passed at the several warehouses in this colony, from and after the twentieth day of October last past, which act as to so much thereof as relates to the imposition of the said duty, will expire on the twentieth day of October next ensuing. III. And whereas by a late accidental fire large quantities of tobacco were burnt in the public warehouses at Coan, in the county of Northumberland, and at Deep-Creek, in the county of Lancaster, an account of which tobacco, with the names of the proprietors, is stated in the memorials of the inspectors of the said warehouses respectively, and contained in a schedule hereunto annexed, for the relief of which sufferers, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That the said treasurer, out of the money to be raised by this and the said recited act, shall, some time before the last day of July next ensuing, pay to the several proprietors of the tobacco burnt in the said last mentioned warehouses, and mentioned in the said schedule, after the rates following, that is to say, for the two hogsheads of crop tobacco inspected at Coan warehouse, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty three, also for the transfer tobacco burnt in the said warehouse, for which the inspectors notes are out, and for the three hogsheads of uninspected tobacco burnt in the said warehouse after the rate of ten shillings and six-pence per hundred; for the nett transfer tobacco burnt in the said warehouse, and for which no notes are out, and also for all the transfer tobacco burnt in the said Deep Creek warehouse, after the rate of eleven shillings per hundred; for the hogshead of crop tobacco inspected in the said Coan warehouse, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four, after the rate of twelve shillings per hundred; and for the crop tobacco inspected at each of the said warehouses of Coan and Deep-Creek, in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, after the rate of twelve shillings and six pence per hundred... A Schedule of the Tobacco burnt in Deep-Creek Warehouse, to which this act refers. Crop Tobacco Quan. of Owners Name Marks Num’s. Nett tob. William Glascock W G 1 950 do do 2 950 George Kerr G K 1 950 do do 2 950 do do 3 950 George McCall G M 1 950 do do 2 950 do do 3 950 Henry Tapscott H T 11 951 do do 12 945 do do 13 949 do do 14 955 do do 15 946 George Heale G S H* 20 950 James Bush I B 3 903 Joseph Chinn I P C* 16 986 Samuel Brumley S B 3 1050 Henry Newby N N 1 950 *Over the S and P is a figure of 4, and under them a Crow’s foot. Transfer Tobacco Quantity of Owners Name Nett tobacco Christopher Lawson 1680 Miel Scurlock 964 Henry Tapscott 558 Henry Newby 178 Mary Newby 43 George Kerr 220 George M’Call 1021 Transfer notes not given in, amounting to 2811. ------------------------ Submitted by Gwen Hurst Transcribed from: Hening, William Waller 1820 The Statutes at Large; Being A Collection Of All the Laws Of Virginia From The First Session Of The Legislature, In The Year 1619. Volume VII. Franklin Press, Richmond, Virginia (pages 46, 47, 50). **************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ****************************************************************