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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1801.

Levy court
to deter-
mine at
what placet
warehouse!
shall be
kept, and
the number
of inspec-
tors at each.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy court,
or a majority of them, for the several counties of this state,
except Washington, Frederick, Cecil, Kent, Caroline, Harford,
Montgomery and Allegany, be and they are hereby authorized
and required annually to meet at the place where their respec-
tive county courts are held, between the fifteenth and twenty-
fifth day of January next, and then and there determine at
what place or places on or near navigable water, in their respec-
tive counties, except in the counties before excepted, ware-
houses shall be kept for the receipt and inspection of tobacco
agreeably to this act, and the number of inspectors at each
place, and the number of days in each week each inspector
shall be required to attend, to be entered in a book to be pro-
vided and kept for that purpose only, or the place or places, and
warehouse or warehouses, for the receipt and inspection of
tobacco in their county during the continuance of this act.

May nomi-
nate per-
sons as
inspectors
to governor
and council.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy
court, or a majority of them, when met as aforesaid, shall pro-
ceed to nominate and recommend to the governor and council
three or five persons, each of them having assessed property in
the state to the value of eight hundred dollars, and well skilled
in the curing and packing tobacco, and the order, quality and
condition thereof, and well qualified and capable from integrity,
reputation and diligence, to execute and discharge the office and

Proviso.

duty of an inspector ; provided, where the same person or per-
sons are nominated who had the preceding year officiated as
inspector or inspectors under commission from the governor, he
or they may continue to act as inspector or inspectors without a
new commission.
By 1823, ch. 165, the governor, without the previous nomination of the
levy court, has the power to nominate the inspectors for the state ware-
houses.

To take an
oath before
voting for
any ware-
house or
inspector.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That every justice of the levy
court, before he votes for any public warehouse, or for any
person as inspector, shall take an oath or affirmation as the case
may be, (which any one of the said justices may administer,)
that he will, without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice,
appoint such place and public warehouse for the receipt and
inspection of tobacco in his county, as he in his judgment and
conscience believes most proper for that purpose, and that he
will nominate and recommend such person to be inspector as
he shall, in his judgment and conscience believe well skilled in
the curing and packing tobacco, and the order, condition and
quality thereof, and well qualified and capable, from his inte-
grity, reputation and diligence, to execute and discharge the
office and duty of an inspector ; and every justice, on voting for
any public warehouse to be fixed or built at any particular