ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 603
shall be written the marks and number of the hogshead,
the date of inspection, and the name or number of the
warehouse, Grader's Certificate showing grade, condition,
(with space for remarks) and signature of grader, and
shall seal said taps and label with sealing wax, and shall
stamp it with the seal of the warehouse. Whenever a hogs-
head 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 re-opening of the tobacco
shall show that the hogshead has been reinspected or
reviewed.
52. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corpora-
tion engaged in the business of selling leaf tobacco on or
through the Baltimore market, to include with every check
and/or account of every sale of tobacco for or on the ac-
count of the grower or person for whom sale was made, a
statement showing the grade, weight, price per pound and
number of hogshead for each and every hogshead so sold.
Any person, firm or corporation failing to include such
statement shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and,
upon conviction, shall be subject to the penalty prescribed
by Section 53 of this Article. Every person, firm or corpo-
ration, engaged regularly in the business of selling leaf
tobacco on or through the Baltimore market, either for the
account of the grower, owner or other principal, or for his,
its or their own account, shall keep a correct account, upon
a form to be prescribed by the Maryland State Board of
Agriculture, of the number of hogsheads and total pounds
of leaf tobacco sold daily by such person, firm or corpora-
tion, and that said account verified by oath shall on or be-
fore the fifth day of each succeeding month be returned or
delivered to the Executive Officer of the Maryland State
Board of Agriculture. The form of said account to be pre-
pared by the said the Maryland State Board of Agriculture
as aforesaid, shall be so arranged and classified as to show
under three separate classifications or headings, entitled
"Southern Maryland Tobacco, " "Up Country Tobacco" and
"Tobacco Produced Outside of Maryland"; first, the num-
ber of pounds of tobacco sold for the producers of tobacco
first hand; second, the number of pounds sold for dealers,
and third, the number of pounds bought for the account of
said person, firm or corporation making said report, or for
the account of some other person, firm or corporation en-
gaged in selling leaf tobacco. That each person, firm or
corporation engaged in selling leaf tobacco as aforesaid,
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