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of tobacco, and vessels having tobacco or other conveyances having tobacco
to deliver to such warehouses shall have preference over all others in the
use of such wharves; no charge for wharfage shall be laid on any tobacco
received at or delivered from any of the State warehouse wharves.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 45. 1912, sec. 43. 1904, sec. 44. 1888, sec. 45. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 30A.

1916, ch. 309, sec. 43.

45. The name of the owner of every hogshead of tobacco delivered for
inspection at any State warehouse in the City of Baltimore shall be legibly
marked or stenciled thereon; and it shall be the duty of the inspector to
retain for inspection every hogshead of tobacco not so marked or stenciled
until the name of the owner thereof shall have been ascertained and placed
thereon.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 46. 1912, sec. 44. 1904, sec. 45. 1888, sec. 46. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 30B.

1916, ch. 309, sec. 44.

46. It shall be the duty of the several inspectors of tobacco to carefully
return all bundles of tobacco, other than samples which may be drawn in
sampling, and all bundles which may be displaced in uneasing tobacco to the
hogshead from which the same were drawn or displaced; and any agent or
employee of said inspector who shall knowingly violate the provisions of
this section shall be deemed guilty of misconduct in office, and shall be liable
to removal.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 47. 1912, sec. 45. 1904, sec. 47. 1888, sec. 48. 1864, ch. 346, sec. 41.
1870, ch. 291. 1888, ch. 156. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 45.

47. It shall and may be lawful for any grower or any owner of tobacco
grown in this State to sell the same either in the State or out of it, in
hogsheads of any size or weight, or in boxes, or in any other kind of style
of package, without being compelled to have the same inspected by the
State inspectors and without being compelled to place the same in the
State warehouses for any purpose whatsoever, or to pay any charge for
outage, storage or any other charge thereon, to the State or any of its
constituted officers.

This section prior to act of 1888, ch. 156, and the charge for outage prescribed thereby,
held to be constitutional. This and other sections of this article held to be inspection
laws, and the characteristics of inspection laws considered. Turner v. State, 55 Md.
263 (affirmed in 107 U. S. 38). And see Patapsco Guano Co. v. Board of Agriculture,
52 Fed. 697.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 48. 1912, sec. 46. 1904, sec. 48. 1888, sec. 49. 1888, ch 176, sec 3

1916, ch. 309, sec. 46.

48. If any grower or owner of tobacco grown in this State shall desire
to store such tobacco in any of the State tobacco warehouses, without having
the same inspected by the State inspectors and without the same being
subject to the laws relating to inspections of tobacco, he may do so upon
paying storage therefor at the rate of twenty-five cents per hogshead per
month, or fractional part of a month, for the first two months that said
tobacco shall remain in said warehouses, and fifteen cents per month or
fractional part of a month for every succeeding month that said tobacco
shall remain in said warehouses; but no charge for outage shall be made
upon said tobacco, and all money received from said storage shall be
credited to the warehouse receipts of the warehouse in which said tobacco
shall be stored but no tobacco stored in said warehouse under the provi-