INSPECTO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INSPECTOR. The name given to certain officers whose duties are to examine 
  and inspect things over which they have jurisdiction; as, inspector of bark 
  , one who is by law authorized to examine bark for exportation, and to 
  approve or disapprove of its quality. Inspectors of customs are officers 
  appointed by the general government: as to their duties, see Story's L. U. 
  S. vol. 1, 590, 605, 609, 610, 612, 619, 621, 623, 650; ii. 1490, 1516; iii. 


  1650, 1790.