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TOBACCO INSPECTIONS.

Table No. 6 of the Appendix exhibits the receipts and dis-
bursements on account of the State Tobacco Inspections in
Baltimore for the year 1859. The gross receipts, it will be
perceived, were $92,434.25, and the disbursements in the
same period were $94,254.51, leaving a deficiency of $1,820.26
to be met by drafts upon the Tobacco Fund.

The Inspectors represent that they cannot "full stay" to-
bacco for $1, the sum fixed in section 5 of the Act of Assem-
bly of 1858, and that, in fact, it costs about $1,50; conse-
quently it will be necessary to amend the law in this respect.

During the past year an unusually large quantity of To-
bacco was received for storage, and a comparatively limited
amount shipped ; the warehouses being filled, the Inspectors
applied to this Department for instructions ; although unable
to find any legislative provision upon the subject, the Comp-
troller deemed it his duty to advise them to procure storage
room upon the best terms possible, and to defray the expense
out of their receipts. The attention of the Legislature is
respectfully called to the necessity of providing for future con-
tingencies of this nature.

GRAIN INSPECTIONS.

The Inspectors of Grain in the city of Baltimore returned
to this Department, in the fiscal year, $5,283.71, one-half of
which amount was disbursed for salaries, and $219.53 for
payment of assistants; leaving the nett sum of $2,422.33 in
the Treasury to the credit of the Grain Fund,

It appears, by the monthly reports of the Inspector General,
that 339,765 bushels of wheat, and 371,202 bushels of corn
and other grain were inspected during the year.

In their settlements, the Grain Inspectors have claimed to
be entitled to the full amount of the sums prescribed in the
Act, as the limit of their salaries, even if it should be neces-