214 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

34. If any person shall export, or cause to be exported, any
hogshead of tobacco marked with a forged or counterfeited
mark, or demand tobacco of any inspector upon any forged,
counterfeited, or altered manifest or note, knowing such mani-
fest or note, or such mark, to be forged, counterfeited, or altered,
he shall be sentenced to the penitentiary not exceeding seven
years, nor less than eighteen months, or be fined not exceeding
three hundred dollars, or both of them, in the discretion of the
court. And if any person shall put or pack any tobacco into
any hogshead marked by any inspector, in lieu of tobacco in-
spected, or shall draw or take out any stave, plank or heading
board of any hogshead of tobacco, after it shall be delivered out
from any public warehouse, unless it be for the purpose of ex-
amining the quality of tobacco by a person intending to pur-
chase the same, upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined a sum.
not exceeding one hundred dollars, if free—and if a servant or
slave, shall be whipped not exceeding twenty lashes. And in all
such cases, the testimony of the inspector may be admitted as
evidence.

35. The inspectors of tobacco in this State shall brand with a
hob-iron on every hogshead of tobacco inspected by them, the
name of the State wherein the tobacco was raised; and if any
person shall rub out or deface any such brand on any hogshead
of tobacco, with a view of changing the same, or shall falsely
mark or brand any hogshead of tobacco contrary to the pro-
visions of this section, upon conviction thereof, he shall suffer a
confinement in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor
more than two years.

36. Any person breaking any hogshead of tobacco with the
word Maryland on the bilge, or any other part of a hogshead
with intent to evade the provisions of the laws relating to the
inspection of tobacco, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon
conviction thereof, shall undergo a confinement in the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more than four years.

37. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any certificate of
the stock of this State, or any letter of attorney for the transfer
thereof, or shall forge or counterfeit any such certificate with the
intent of putting the same in circulation, on conviction thereof,
he shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two
nor more than ten years.