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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Powers of the

11. The Chief Inspector of Tobacco shall have the power to

Chief Inspec-
tor of To-

appoint one chief clerk, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars

bacco.

per annum, which clerk shall have his office at such one of the

warehouses as shall be designated and occupied by the Chief

Inspector for all of the business done at all of said warehouses;

and said Chief Inspector shall also have power to appoint an

assistant clerk, whose salary shall not exceed eight hundred

dollars per annum, and who shall perform such duties as may

be assigned him by the Chief Inspector. The said Deputy In-

spectors provided for in this sub-title shall respectively be in

charge of such warehouse as they shall severally be assigned

to by the Governor, and shall each be authorized to appoint one

assistant deputy inspector, one tobacco note clerk, one receiving

clerk, one shipping clerk, one weighing clerk, one assistant

clerk, one sample tyer, one janitor, one finder, one elevator and

one stay floor man, and not more than ten screwmen nor more

than four laborers. The salaries of the tobacco note clerks shall

be one thousand dollars per annum each ; assistant deputy in-

spectors, receiving clerks, shipping clerks and weighing clerks

Salaries.

shall be eight hundred dollars per annum each, and that of sam-

ple tyers seven hundred dollars per annum each ; the wages of

the assistant clerks, janitors, finders, elevator and stay floor

men and screwmen shall be two dollars per day each ; and the

wages of the laborers shall be one dollar and fifty cents per

day each. No deputy inspector shall employ any additional

force of labor than that hereinbefore specified without the ap-

proval of the Chief Inspector, but with such approval the said

deputy inspectors are authorized to employ such additional

force as may be necessary for the proper and economical man-

agement of their respective warehouses, and it shall be the

duty of the Chief Inspector to discharge any of said employees

of said warehouses whenever their services are not necessary

to the proper working of any of said warehouses ; and the

Chief Inspector may, upon request or with the consent of the

Special as-
signments

deputy inspector of any warehouse, assign any employee of

and expenses

such warehouse to any work that may be deemed necessary

of same.

for the business of the tobacco warehouses, and all expenses

incident to such special assignments shall be payable out of

the funds of the tobacco warehouses in the hands of said Chief

Inspector.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.