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LAWS OF MARYLAND.-1823.

appointment, it shall be, and is hereby rendered the duty of the
governor and council, to appoint some other inspector or inspec-
tors in his or their place.

Provide
apparatus

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That it shall be, and is hereby
rendered the duty of the inspectors appointed by this act, to
procure by purchase or otherwise, for each of the houses of
which they may be inspectors, a good and sufficient beam and
prizes, blocks, teackles, weights and scales, to weigh fifteen
hundred gross pounds at the least, and a set of small weights,
such as are provided for the standard and weights of said city,
and proper marking irons, and other necessaries, and that they
shall render an account under oath of the expense thereof,
with the vouchers for the same, to the treasurer of the western
shore, and that said treasurer shall pay on the order of each in-
spector or inspectors, the amount of such expense.

Labourers.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be, and is hereby
made the duty of the inspectors appointed under this act, to pro-
vide the necessary number of labourers, and other necessaries
for the handling and cooperage of all tobacco inspected at the
warehouse of which they are inspectors, and to return under
oath to the treasurer aforesaid, an account of 'the expense
thereof, with the vouchers for the same, which shall be allowed
said inspectors by the treasurer at each monthly settlement of
their accounts.

Baltimore
county
ware-
houses.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act con-
tained shall be taken or construed, to prevent the levy court of
Baltimore county, from appointing an inspector at a warehouse,
to be provided by said county in the city or elsewhere, any time
hereafter, to inspect the tobacco, the growth and produce of said
county, whose salary is to be regulated and fixed in the same
manner as the salaries of tobacco inspectors are regulated in
other counties.
SEC. 12. Modified by 1826, ch. 176 ; 1834, ch. 198.

Case of
repeal.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That in case it should hereafter
be found expedient to repeal this act, and to restore the system
of inspection heretofore in existence, that the proprietors of the
present warehouses, or their representatives, shall be re-instated
in all the rights and privileges which they enjoy under the pre-
sent laws.
SEC. 14. Personal, as to the private warehouses discontinued by this act.
SEC. 15. Conditional, that upon a deficiency of the revenue, the net pro-
ceeds should be divided, as a salary, among the inspectors. See note to
sec. 3.