ART. 31. ] INSPECTIONS.

with the seal of the warehouse. Whenever a hogshead of tobacco
is redrawn or reviewed, the sample and label thereon of the original
inspection shall be returned to the inspector, to be by him destroyed;
and the label on the sample given at the redrawing or reopening of
the tobacco shall show that the hogshead has been reinspected or
reviewed.

275

13, Any person or persons being proved guilty of tampering
with any sample of tobacco, after it shall have passed from the cus-
tody or control of the inspector, shall be liable to a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars, by prosecution in the Criminal Court of
Baltimore.

1872, c. 36, s 14.
Penalty for
tampering with
samples.

14. Each inspector shall cause to be kept in proper books the
name of the owner, the number, gross, tare, and net weight of every
hogshead of tobacco inspected by him, the State where grown, the
consignee of the same, the name of the vessel by which shipped out,
and the name of the party shipping the same; and for every hogs-
head so inspected by him he shall issue his certificate or note, stating
in such certificate or note the name or initials of the owner, the num-
ber of the hogshead, the State where grown, the date of inspection,
and the gross, tare, and net weight of the hogshead; and he shall
make no delivery of any hogshead of inspected tobacco from his
warehouse, except upon surrender of certificate or note, correspond-
ing with the number of the hogshead.

Id a 15.
Inspector to
keep books.

What books to
contain

15. If any certificate or note be lost or mislaid, or destroyed,
the person entitled to receive the tobacco by virtue of such note or
certificate, may make oath before a justice of the peace to the effect
of said note being lost, and shall take a certificate to that effect,
from such justice of the peace to the inspector, and deposit the
same with him, then the inspector may deliver to such person a new
note or certificate, with marks, numbers, weights, and date corres-
ponding with the former note, and shall thereby be discharged from
all actions and demands, on account of such former note or certificate.

Id s 16.
When inspector
to issue new
certificate
where original
lost or mislaid.

16. No person shall be entitled to receive a new note or certifi-
cate in lieu of any note or certificate lost or mislaid, unless he shall
notify the inspector, at whose house it was issued, within twenty
days after such note or certificate is first discovered to be lost or
mislaid.

Id. s 17
What notifica-
tion to be made
to inspector
where certifi-
cate lost.

17. All tobacco inspected in any of the warehouses, which may
be condemned or stayed, shall be carefully cased up and weighed,
and the gross weight and tare be entered upon a book, kept for that
purpose, together with the number of breaks in such hogshead as
may be stayed, also the cause, whether for false packing, trash,
order or wet.

Id. s 18
Condemned or
stayed tobacco.

18. All tobacco thus stayed, shall with all convenient dispatch
be shaken out, reconditioned and packed, under the supervision of
the inspector, and reweighed and entered upon the inspection books,
as all other tobacco.

Id s 19.
Stayed tobacco.