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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to repeal Section five hundred and thirty-
five, Article four, Code of Public Local Laws
for the City of Baltimore, sub-title "Tobacco,"
and to enact a substitute therefor.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Section five hundred and thirty-
five, Article four, of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "To-
bacco," he repealed, and the following enacted in
lieu thereof:

Must be
inspected.

535. After the passage of this Act it shall not
be lawful to carry out of this State, in hogsheads,
any tobacco raised in this State, except in hogs-
heads which shall have been inspected, passed and
marked agreeably to the provisions of this Act,
unless such tobacco shall have been inspected and
passed before this Act goes into operation; and
any person violating the provisions of this section
shall forfeit and pay the sum of three hundred
dollars, which may be recovered in any court of
law of this State, and which shall go to the credit
of the tobacco fund; provided, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to prohibit any grow-
er of tobacco or any purchaser thereof, who may
pack the same in the county or neighborhood
where grown, from exporting or carrying out of
this State any such tobacco without having the
same opened for inspection; but such tobacco so
exported or carried out of this State without in-
spection, shall in all cases be marked with the
name in full of the owner thereof, and the place
of residence of such owner, and shall be liable to

Penalty.

the same charge of outrage and storage as in other
cases, and any person who shall carry or send out
of this State any such tobacco, without having it
so marked, shall be subject to the penalty pre-
scribed by this section.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.