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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Montgomery and Allegany, be and they are hereby authorised and
required annually to meet at the place where their respective county
courts are held, between the fifteenth and twenty-fifth day of
January next, and then and there determine at what place or places
on or near navigable water, in their respective counties, except in
the counties before excepted, warehouses shall be kept for the receipt
and inspection of tobacco agreeably to this act, and the number
of inspectors, at each place, and the number of days in each
week each inspector shall be required to attend, to be entered in a
book to be provided and kept for that purpose only, or the place or
places, and warehouse or warehouses, for the receipt and inspection
of tobacco in their county during the continuance of this act.
By 1803, ch. 4, the levy court of Calvert
county may establish a warehouse at
or near Plumb Point. |
1801.
CHAP. 63. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court, or
a majority of them, when met as aforesaid, shall proceed to nominate
and recommend to the governor and council three or five persons,
each of them having assessed property in the state to the
value of eight hundred dollars, and well skilled in the curing and
packing tobacco, and the order, quality and condition thereof, and
well qualified and capable from integrity, reputation and diligence,
to execute and discharge the office and duty of an inspector; Provided,
where the same person or persons are nominated who had
the preceding year officiated as inspector or inspectors under commission
from the governor, he or they may continue to act as inspector
or inspectors without a new commission. |
May nominate
persons as inspectors
to governor
and council.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every justice of
the levy court,
before he votes for any public warehouse, or for any person
as inspector, shall take an oath or affirmation as they case may be,
(which any one of the said justices may administer,) that he will,
without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, appoint such place
and public warehouse for the receipt and inspection of tobacco in
his county, as he in his judgment and conscience believes most proper
for that purpose, and that he will nominate and recommend
such person to be inspector as he shall, in his judgment and conscience
believe well skilled in the curing and packing tobacco, and
the order, condition and quality thereof, and well qualified and
capable, from his integrity, reputation and diligence, to execute
and discharge the office and duty of an inspector; and every justice,
on voting for any public warehouse to be fixed or built at any
particular place, or for any inspector or inspectors for the inspecting,
safe keeping, and delivering of tobacco, at the said warehouse,
shall declare, in writing, in a book to be kept by the clerk of the
county for that purpose, his choice of such warehouse, and of the
name or names of the inspector or inspectors for whom he hath
voted, and shall subscribe his name to the said declaration in writing,
and the said justices shall, immediately thereafter, deliver a
copy thereof, under their hands, to the sheriff of their county, who
shall forthwith transmit the same to the governor, who, with the
advice of the council, is hereby authorised and required to appoint
and commission two persons out of the five, or one person out of
the three, recommended as before directed, to be inspector or inspectors,
as the case may require.
By 1806, ch. 12, the governor and council
are to supply any vacancy which
may happen by the death, &c. of an inspector. |
To take an oath
before voting for
any warehouse or
inspector. |
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