256 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

549*. The property in the scales, ropes, blocks, machinery
and weights belonging to any warehouse shall be so far vested
in the lessee for the time being as to vest authority in said lessee
to prosecute any person for any trespass or felony committed
upon the same.

550*. No lessee of any warehouse or any person employed by
him in said warehouse shall be engaged in the purchase or sale
of tobacco, except such tobacco as may be grown by said lessee
or by the person so employed by him, nor shall it be lawful for
any lessee or person employed by him to receive any gift or
emolument whatever for any favor or service rendered, except
the lawful charges of such lessee and the regular pay or hire of
such person employed by said lessee in said warehouse, under
the penalty of fifty dollars in case of any lessee so convicted, and
twenty dollars in the case of any employee in any warehouse,
one-half to the informer, the other to the Treasurer for the
benefit of the tobacco fund.

551*. And it shall be the duty of each lessee of each warehouse
to unstrip and prepare for inspection all tobacco in regular suc-
cession as it may arrive.

WOOD.

552. Any free white citizen of the State of Maryland, on appli-
cation to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Baltimore
city, and paying said clerk the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars, shall be entitled to receive a license to act as inspector
and corder of firewood for one year from the date thereof.

553. The person applying for such license shall, at the time
of receiving the same, take and subscribe before said clerk an
oath that he will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of
said office.

554. No person engaged in the vending or trading in wood,
individually or as a partner, or as agent, clerk or employee of a
trader or vendor of wood, shall be entitled to a license to act as
inspector and corder of firewood.

555. All firewood brought to the city of Baltimore by water,
or deposited in wood yards or other places of deposit therein for
sale, shall be nt least four feet in length, including one-half of the