LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1819.

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tobacco plants had beeu feloniously stolen, taken and carried
away, after the same had been severed from the freehold.

CHAPTER 95.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate the Inspection
of Tobacco.
See notes to 1801, ch.63, ante page 437.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March eighteen hundred
and twenty, it shall be the duty of each and every inspector of
tobacco in this slate, whenever tobacco shall be offered for
inspection at the warehouse for which he has been appointed,
before he proceeds to inspect the same, to inquire and satisfy
himself in what state or territory such tobacco was grown, and
if he shall have doubts respecting the origin of any tobacco so
offered for inspection, he shall have power, and he is hereby
authorized and required, to examine any person or persons who
may offer to give evidence of the fact, on oath or affirmation, as
the case may be, and upon his being satisfied thereof, and not
before, he shall proceed to inspect the same, and enter on his
inspection book the name of the state or territory where such
tobacco was made, and specify the same in all notes and mani-
fests which he may issue for tobacco inspected by him; and if
the tobacco be not of the growth of this state, he shall cause
the name of the state or territory, wherein the same may have
been grown, to be carved or branded on three staves of each
cask, in the most conspicuous parts thereof.

Inspectors
to satisfy
themselves
in what
state
tobacco
was grown,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any inspector of tobacco
at any warehouse in this state, shall neglect to comply with any
of the provisions contained in the aforegoing section, he shall
for each and every offence forfeit and pay the sum of one hun-
dred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the court of the
county where such offence was committed, one-half to the
informer and the other half to the state.

CHAPTER 132.

AN ACT to punish the offence of Kidnapping White Children.

Penalty for
neglecting
to comply
with provi-
sions of
above
section.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
every person, his or her counsellors, aiders or abettors, who
shall be duly convicted of kidnapping, and forcibly or fraudu-
lently stealing, taking or carrying away, any white child or
children under the age of sixteen years, shall be sentenced to
undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period of time
not less than five years, nor more than twelve years, there to be
treated as the law directs.

Punishment
prescribed.