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salaries of the inspectors and commissioners; and they shall be
bound at all times to employ a sufficient number of laborers and
clerks to perform with all convenient despatch the duties apper-
taining to the storage, weighing, repacking, marking and cooper-
age of tobacco, and all other duties herein imposed upon them;

and any person injured by any delay of any lessee in the per-
formance of any of these duties may sue the bond of such lessee
and recover his damages therefor.

501*. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, shall biennially appoint five inspectors of tobacco,
one for each tobacco warehouse in the city of Baltimore.

502*. No inspector so appointed shall, directly or indirectly,
during his continuance in office, buy or receive any tobacco by
way of barter, loan or exchange, or any way intermeddle with
or busy himself in procuring tobacco to be sold or consigned to
any merchant, or in loading any ship or vessel with tobacco,
except the tobacco grown by such inspector, under the penalty
of sixteen dollars for every hogshead of tobacco so bought or
received or procured to be sold or consigned.

503*. If any inspector shall accept or receive, directly or
indirectly, any gratuity or reward for any thing by him done in
pursuance of his office, other than his salary, he shall forfeit the
sum of three hundred dollars, and shall be disabled from holding
the office of inspector, to be recovered on conviction before the
Criminal Court of Baltimore, one-half to the informer, the other
half to the State for the benefit of the tobacco fund.

504*. If any person shall offer any gratuity, reward or bribe
to any inspector for any thing to be done by him as inspector,
he shall forfeit the sum of three hundred dollars, to be recovered
and applied as prescribed in the aforegoing section.

505*. The salary of each inspector shall be twelve hundred
dollars per annum, payable quarterly, by the Treasurer, upon the
warrant of the Comptroller, out of the tobacco fund.

506*. No person shall export or carry out of this State by
land or water, except to some other of the United States, or the
District of Columbia, any tobacco unless in hogsheads which
shall be inspected, marked and passed at some public warehouse
as hereinafter mentioned; and if any person shall export any