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needed to meet the current expenses of the warehouses until the receipts
thereof will enable the payment of the four thousand dollars ($4,000.00)
so withheld to the Comptroller as above provided.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 15. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 8. 1893, ch. 314.
1908, ch. 9, sec. 15. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 14.

14. In case of the absence of the inspector by reason of sickness or
any other unavoidable cause, his duties, during his absence, shall devolve
upon the chief clerk, unless the inspector shall designate some other clerk
or employee to act in his place; and the person so acting shall qualify under
oath for the faithful discharge of the same.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 16. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 9. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 15.

15. The hours of labor in the several tobacco warehouses in the City
of Baltimore shall be from seven o'clock A. M. until twelve o'clock M., and
from one o'clock P. M. until six o'clock P. M.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 10. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 16.

16. All tobacco landed or delivered at any of the warehouses in the
City of Baltimore, for inspection, shall be taken charge of by the inspector,
through his receiving clerk, and the parties delivering the same shall be
entitled to receive, upon demand, the inspector's receipt therefor.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 18. 1888, sec. 18. 1864, ch. 346, 1898, ch. 314.
1916, ch. 309, sec. 17.

17. It shall be the duty of the inspector to cause each hogshead of
tobacco landed or delivered at the warehouses to be numbered in succession,
as received, and cause said number to be entered in a book kept for that
purpose, together with the time said hogshead was received, the name of
the vessel or other conveyance, if known to him, by which said hogshead
was brought to the City of Baltimore and of the owner or consignee of said
tobacco, and the initials or other trade-marks on said hogshead identifying
the same, and when said hogshead shall be removed from said warehouse
he shall cause an entry to be made in some book, kept for that purpose, of
the time when the same was removed, the name of the person to whom the
same was delivered and of the vessel or other conveyance by which the
same was taken away.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 19. 1888, 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, affec-
tion or partiality to anyone; and each violation of the provision of this
section shall subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to
be recovered in the criminal court of Baltimore.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 20. 1888, 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 hogshead