INSPECTIONS 2045

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, 1924, sec. 18. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 19. 1912, 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
and the cask itself, to be separately weighed in his presence or that of his
weighing clerk, in scales with weights of the proper standard; 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 20. 1912, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 21. 1888, 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 hogshead 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 sec. 21.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 21. 1912, ch. 21. 1904, sec. 22. 1888, sec. 22. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 11.
1886, ch. 101. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 21. 1933, ch. 325, sec. 21. 1935, ch. 594, 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 num-
ber, the year of inspection and the names legibly written of the owner
on each head and bilge and shall have the tare and net weight marked
with iron on the bilge as directed in the preceding section.