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ART. XLVIII] TOBACCO. 343
name of the person to whom the same was delivered and of the vessel
or other conveyance by which the same was taken away.
1904, art. 48, sec. 19. 1888, art. 48, sec. 19. 1867, ch. 368. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 18.
18. It shall be the duty of each tobacco inspector to cause all tobacco
in the warehouse to which he may have been appointed to be inspected
as speedily as practicable in regular order as numbered without favor,
affection or partiality to anyone; and each violation of the provision of
this section shall subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered in the criminal court of Baltimore.
1904, art. 48, sec. 20. 1888, art. 48, sec. 20. 1864, ch. 346. 1916. ch. 309, sec. 19.
19. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause each hogshead of
tobacco before it is uncased, to be weighed, and the tobacco in each hogs-
head and the cask itself, to be separately weighed in his presence or
that of his weighing clerk, in scales with weights of the proper stand-
ard; and the weight of each hogshead as first weighed, and the gross
and net weight of the tobacco therein contained after inspection, to be
entered in a proper book, with sufficient reference to its numbers and
marks as previously recorded.
1904, art. 48, sec. 21. 1888, art. 48, sec. 21. 1864, ch. 346. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 20.
20. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause to be marked
with a marking-iron on the side of each hogshhead of tobacco under his
charge the warehouse, number and weight of said hogshead, and the net
weight of tobacco contained therein, and to cause warehouse number
of such hogshead to be marked with blacking on each head thereof.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 48, sec. 22. 1888, art. 48, sec. 22. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 11. 1886, ch. 101.
1916, ch. 309, sec. 21.
21. Every inspector shall have uncased and break every hogshead
of tobacco that may be delivered for inspection in not less than five
different places for Maryland and Ohio and not less than three different
places for Kentucky and Virginia tobacco and in as many more places
as may be necessary to fully determine the contents of said hogshead,
and if the inspector shall be of the opinion that such tobacco is sound,
clean and in good order, then he shall select from each break as many
bundles as will correctly represent the different qualities of tobacco
contained in the break, and the bundles so selected shall be considered
the sample of the hogshead; he shall also have the hogshead properly
marked with its number, the year of inspection and the names legibly
written of the owner on each head and bilge and shall have the tare
and ret weight marked with iron on the bilge as directed in the preced-
ing section.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
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