LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

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hundred and twenty-one, chapter one hundred and ninety-four,
entitled, a further supplement to the act, entitled, an act to
regulate the inspection of tobacco, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 176.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to establish State
Warehouses for the Inspection of Tobacco in the City of Baltimore.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the seventh section of the original act, to
which this is a supplement, as makes it the duty of each inspec-
tor to account for and pay over, monthly, to the treasurer of the
western shore, all such moneys as may be paid to him under the
provisions of the said act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Section of
original act
repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be, and is hereby
made the duty of each inspector, to account for, under oath, to
the treasurer for the western shore, and pay over to the said trea-
surer, all moneys which have been or may be paid to him under
the provisions of the said act, quarter- yearly, to wit. on the first
day of February, first day of May, first day of August, and
first day of November, and in his said accounts to set forth the
number of hogsheads of tobacco inspected, the number deli-
vered, and all other the services or considerations for which his
receipts accrued during the time for which he accounts.

Inspectors
to account
quarterly
with
treasurer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if each inspector shall not
pay into the treasury the money due by such accounts, within
ten days after the times specified as aforesaid, he shall be
charged with interest of ten per cent, from the said first day
of February, May, August or November, as the case may be ;
and if he fail or neglect to pay within three months after the
times first limited as aforesaid, his bond shall be put in suit,
and he be ineligible again to his said office of inspector, until he
shall have paid all money due for principal, interest and costs
of suit.

Inspector
neglecting
to pay mo-
ney due, his
bond may
be put in
suit.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the salary to each of the
clerks employed in virtue of the act, to which this is a supple-
ment, shall not exceed four hundred dollars annually.
By 1834, eh. 198, the clerks are to receive $250, in addition to their pre-
sent salary.

Clerk's
salary.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That neither of the said clerks
shall be concerned, directly or indirectly, in the buying or sel-
ling of tobacco on their own account, nor in the profit or loss of
any speculation connected therewith, and that they and each of
them, shall take and subscribe an oath to that effect, before
some justice of the peace duly qualified to administer the same,
and deliver the said oath, so taken and subscribed, to their pro-
per inspector, whose duty it shall be to report the same with his
next quarterly return.

Not to be
concerned
in buying or
selling
tobacco.