LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1801.

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lost or mislaid, and shall be thereby discharged from all actions
and demands on account of such notes; and if any person shall
be convicted of taking a false oath or affirmation, he shall suffer
as in case of wilful and corrupt perjury, and shall forfeit and
pay to the party grieved fifty dollars for every hundred pounds
of tobacco specified in such certificate, and so in proportion for
a less quantity ; and any person selling or producing a forged
certificate, knowing the same to be forged, in the case aforesaid,
shall, upon conviction, be fined a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred and fifty dollars, or shall stand in the pillory not exceeding
two hours, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall pay
to the party grieved fifty dollars for every hundred pounds of

tobacco specified in such certificate ; Provided always, that no
person shall be entitled to receive a new note in lieu of any
note lost, destroyed or mislaid, as aforesaid, unless he or she
shall advertise the same within twenty days after such note is
first discovered to be lost, mislaid or destroyed, at the court-
house door of the county, and the warehouse at which such
tobacco was inspected.

Proviso.

SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That if any hogshead of tobacco
shall be brought to any warehouse for inspection, and the in*
spector or inspectors shall refuse to pass the same, and the
owner, or other person bringing such tobacco, will undertake to
pick and separate the good from the bad, the said inspector or
inspectors shall allow the use of one or more of their prizes for
prizing such tobacco so separated and repacked in the said
hogshead ; and if there shall be several hogsheads of tobacco,
belonging to several owners, to be picked, repacked and prized,
at any public warehouse, the owner, or other person bringing
the same, whose tobacco shall be first examined and refused,
shall be first permitted to make use of such prize or prizes, and
the same rule shall be observed in the prizing all tobacco which
shall be picked, repacked and prized as aforesaid.

In case of
inspector's
refusing to
pass tobac-
co, owner
may sepa-
rate good
from bad,
and have
the use of
prizes to
repack the
same.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That no inspector or inspectors
shall take or convert to his or their own use, or otherwise dis-
pose of, any draughts or samples of tobacco drawn out of any
hogshead, but the same, if fit to pass, shall be delivered to the
owner, or other person offering the same for inspection, under
the penalty of seventy-five cents.
By 1821, ch. 194, sec. 3, samples are to consist of not less than three
bundles of the average quality of the hogshead.
By 1822, ch. 172. not to retain them without the assent of the owner.

Penalty on
inspector
for convert-
ing samples
to his own
use.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy
courts shall hear and determine all complaints against any in-
spector in a summary way, and if found guilty of any breach of
duty required by this act, shall remove every such inspector,
and immediately after transmit a copy of the complaint, and of
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Levy court
to hear all
complaints
against
inspectors,
and trans-
mit pro-