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tions of tobacco that would be in conflict with the tobacco inspection
warehouses.*

State Horticultural Department.

1004. art. 48, sec. 52. 1896, ch. 290, sec. 51. 1898, ch. 289.

50. A State horticultural department is established for the State
of Maryland; its purpose is to suppress and eradicate the San Jose
scale, peach-yellow, pear-blight and other injuriously dangerous insect
pests and plant diseases throughout the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1896 ch. 290, sec. 52.

51. The professor of entomology, the professor of vegetable pathol-
ogy, and the professor of horticulture of the Maryland Agricultural
College and Experiment Station shall be the state entomologist, state
pathologist and state horticulturist, respectively.

Ibid. sec. 54. 1896, ch. 290, sec. 53. 1906. ch. 509, sec. 54.

52. The said Horticultural Department shall be under the control of
the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural College and Experi-
ment Station, to whom the officers created under this sub-title shall
be responsible; the salary of the state horticulturist, state entomologist
and state pathologist shall be fixed by the said board of trustees, and
the said board shall likewise fix the compensation of any assistant or
assistants, employe or employes, and control all expenses thereof; the
expenses of said department shall be paid out of any appropriation
hereinafter provided for; and said board of trustees are invested with
all powers necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this sub-title;
but no expense shall be incurred beyond the amount appropriated.

*By the act of 1904, ch. 426, the board of public worts was authorized to collect
the Insurance upon state tobacco warehouses Nos. 1 and 2, destroyed by fire, and
to either rebuild a modern warehouse on the old site and adjacent property, or
to sell or lease the same and build a new tobacco warehouse in some other
locality. The act of 1906, ch. 804, repealing and re-enacting the act of 1904, ch.
426, having been declared unconstitutional (see Christmas v. Warfield, 105 Md.
530), the act of 1908, ch. 75, was passed, providing for the erection of a new
state tobacco warehouse upon one or more of the sites of the existing ware-
houses, and for repairing the old warehouses. The act of 1908 further provided
for a tobacco warehouse building commission; for the details incident to the
construction of the new warehouse, and for an appropriation therefor. Section 1
of the act of 1908, ch. 75, was amended and re-enacted by the act of 1908, ch. 231,
and an additional appropriation made.

By the act of 1906, ch. 748, the board of public works was directed to give a
notice to quit at the expiration of his tenancy to Henry Williams and his
assignee, lessee of the wharf belonging to the state located in Baltimore city on
Light street, opposite the state tobacco warehouse No. 3 A. The act further
directed the chief tobacco Inspector to assume control of the wharf at the expira-
tion of said tenancy and to report to the board of public works as to whether it
would he advantageous for him to continue in control thereof, or for the board
of public works to rent the same. The board of public works was authorized to
rent the wharf if they thought wise.