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| Citation | 3 & 4 Geo. 3. c. 3 |
| Enacted by | Virginia General Assembly |
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The Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 (popularly known as the Tobacco Inspection Act[1]) was a 1730 law of the Virginia General Assembly designed to improve the quality of tobacco exported from Colonial Virginia. Proposed by Virginia Lieutenant Governor Sir William Gooch, the law was far-reaching in impact in part because it gave warehouses the power to destroy substandard crops and issue bills of exchange that served as currency.[2] The law centralized the inspection of tobacco at 40 locations described in the law.[3]
The 1730 warehouse law built on prior laws. The warehouse act of 1712 provided for the regulation of public warehouses. This warehouse act was amended in 1720 giving the county courts the authority to order warehouses inconvenient to the landings discontinued.[4]
- ^ "An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco; and for preventing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs (1730)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org.
- ^ Richmond during the Colonial Period
- ^ "History of Tobacco Regulation - Regulation of Production". www.druglibrary.org.
- ^ "The warehouse movement kept pace". www.freefictionbooks.org.