1766 ARTICLE 48.

upon total of all sales; the Maryland State Board of Agriculture shall so
prepare the form of the account or report to be made by the said persons,
firms or corporations engaged in the sale of leaf tobacco through the Balti-
more market that when the same are returned to it as hereinbefore required,
the said account or report shall contain the information hereinbefore speci-
fied, and it shall be the duty of said persons, firms and corporations engaged
in the sale of leaf tobacco on or through the Baltimore market as aforesaid,
to fully and correctly give the information called for by the said the Mary-
land State Board of Agriculture, in said form of account or report; pro-
vided, however, that this and the two succeeding sections of this Article shall
not apply to any person, firm or corporation engaged solely in the buying
of leaf tobacco, either for his, their or its own account, or for resale or for
the account of a principal.

1920, ch. 435, sec. 2.

53. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the sale of leaf tobacco
on or through the Baltimore market, who shall fail to keep his, their or its
books as described in the foregoing section, or who shall fail to make the
report required therein, or who shall wilfully make any false report, or
make a false statement in said report to the Maryland State Board of Agri-
culture, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall
be fined not less than $25.00 or more than $1,000.00, or shall be imprisoned
for not less than ten days or more than six months, or be subject to both
fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court.

1920, ch. 435, sec. 3.

54. The Executive Officer of the Maryland State Board of Agriculture
shall keep the books mentioned in Section 52 open to the inspection of the
public, and shall on or before the tenth day of each month after the receipt
of the accounts or reports required in Section 52 to be made to the said the
Maryland State Board of Agriculture, cause a summary of said reports to
be published in the monthly bulletin issued by the Maryland State College
of Agriculture, and in one or more journals published in the interest of the
growth, sale and manufacture of tobacco in the State, or of a large circula-
tion therein, and further that this summary shall also be transmitted by the
said Executive Officer to each of the daily papers published in Baltimore,
and to each of the county papers published in the tobacco growing counties
of the State, and to any farm papers published within the State.

1920, ch. 493.

55. The Maryland Tobacco Growers' Association, a corporation incor-
porated by an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same being
Chapter 223 of the Acts of 1906, be and they are hereby authorized to
occupy, without charge, such space in the State Tobacco Warehouse, for the
purpose of its salesrooms and headquarters, as in the judgment of the said
Maryland Tobacco Growers' Association and the Inspector of the State
Tobacco Warehouse may be deemed necessary, provided that no other
tobacco is there sold by it except that belonging to the members of the
Association.