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APPENDIX.

Qualifica-
tion.

that may be offered for inspection ; Provided, however, the
person so appointed shall first take the oath or affirmation of
office, as the case may be, now directed by law to be taken by
the inspectors ; and the said sick or disabled inspector, and his
securities, shall be answerable for all tobacco inspected and
passed by the person so appointed by him, in the same manner
as if he had personally officiated.

Repair or
re building
of ware-
house.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That whenever any of the said
warehouses shall require repairing or re-building, it shall be
the duty of the said inspectors to notify the governor of the
same, who shall thereupon appoint as many persons as he may
deem necessary, not exceeding three, to act as commissioners
in contracting for, and superintending the said necessary re-
pairs and re-building; and after the same shall have been com-

Payment
therefor.
From to-
bacco fund,

pleted, the costs and expenses thereof shall be paid for by the
treasurer of the western shore, out of the tobacco inspection
, fund for Prince George's county, which may be paid into the
treasury by said inspectors, if there should be sufficient for

If inade-
quate, from
treasury.

that purpose remaining in the treasury, unexpended or unap-
plied, and if there be not sufficient of said fund for that pur-
pose remaining in the treasury, then and in that case, said ex-
penses for repairs and re-building shall be paid for by the
treasurer aforesaid, out of any unappropriated money in the

Re-im-
bursement.

treasury, in which latter event, for the purpose of re-imbursing
the state for any sum or sums thus paid out of the treasury on
account of said repairs and re-building, the legislature shall,
et its next session thereafter, impose by law such an additional
tax or increase of outage on the tobacco to be inspected in said
warehouses as will be sufficient to raise the sum or sums so paid
out of the treasury aforesaid, which sum or sums shall be paid
into the treasury by the inspectors aforesaid, to re-imbuise the
state for the amount thus expended in said repairs and re-
building.

Tobacco
inspected
prior to
February.
1839, ex.
empt.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act,
and of the original act to which this is a supplement, shall not
be construed so as to relate or extend to any tobacco which
may have been in said warehouses, or any of them," and which
shall have been inspected prior to the first Monday in February
in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, but all the reve-
nue which shall have accrued, or which may become due for
the same, shall be paid to the late inspectors thereof, to be by
them paid over and accounted for to the levy court of

county in the usual manner, as heretofore required by law.

Outage re-
gulated.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That until the first day of April,
in the year eighteen hundred and forty, the charges for outage,
porterage and sealing to be paid by the purchaser or owner of
each hogshead of tobacco inspected at, and removed from any