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ARTICLE 48.

ARTICLE 48.

INSPECTIONS.

Tobacco.

10. Inspector; duties; bond; employees.
23. Arbitration of disputes concerning
inspections; award.

State Horticultural Department.

70-71. Repealed.

Seed.

117-118. How tagged or labeled.
123. False marking or misrepresenta-
tion.

Fire Inspections.

144-146. Persons authorized to inspect
buildings, etc.; removal of com-
bustible material; refusal to com-
ply with orders; penalty.

Tobacco.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 10. 1912, sec. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, sec. 10. 1876, ch. 36,

sec. 2. 1890, ch. 262. 1898, ch. 314. 1908, ch. 9, sec. 10. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 10.

1920, ch. 39, sec. 10. 1929, ch. 465.

10. The inspector so appointed shall, before entering upon the dis-
charge of the duties of his office, give bond to the State of Maryland in
the sum of thirty thousand dollars, with a surety or sureties to be ap-
proved by the Treasurer of the State, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties imposed upon him by law, which bond shall be recorded
in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and the
premium on which bond shall be paid by the State of Maryland; and he
shall, as soon as he shall have bonded and qualified as required by law,
take charge of all the tobacco warehouses in Baltimore City and all the
tobacco, books, furniture, appurtenances and effects belonging to the same,
and shall receipt to his predecessor in office for the same, and upon the ap-
pointment and qualification of his successor, shall deliver the same to the
said successor, and take a similar receipt. Said inspector shall, personally
or by a sampler or samplers, in this Article provided for, inspect all to-
bacco in said warehouse, but neither he or any other person appointed to
or employed in said warehouses shall engage in the purchase or sale of to-
bacco (except that he may sell tobacco of his own raising), nor shall any
person appointed to or employed in said warehouses receive any gift or
emolument whatever, either directly or indirectly, for any service in the
line of his duty other than his regular salary or wages; and any person
violating the provisions of this section shall be immediately dismissed from
office or service. Each of said samplers, before entering on the duty of
his office, shall give bond to the inspector with a surety or sureties, to be
approved by said inspector, in the sum of two thousand dollars, condi-
tioned for the faithful discharge of his duties, and the said inspector in