 Nevertheless, the act did meet with opposition from some of the English customs officials and a few of the large planters.Soon after the passage of this new inspection law a prominent planter wrote complainingly to a London merchant, "This Tobo hath passed the Inspection of our new law, every hogshead was cased and viewed by which means the tobacco was very much tumbled and made something less sightly than it was before and it causes a great deal of extraordinary trouble".There were complaints that the new law destroyed tobacco that used to bring good money.