2052 ARTICLE 48

sions of this section shall be inspected in said warehouse by a private
inspector; and the said tobacco may at any time be removed from said
warehouse by the owner upon payment of the storage in the same manner
as if said warehouse was a private warehouse.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 49. 1912, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 49. 1888, sec. 50. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 32.
1916, ch. 309, sec. 47. 1920, ch. 39, sec. 47.

49. The Comptroller, Librarian, or other proper officer, shall furnish
the said inspector with a reasonable number of bound copies of so much
of this article as relates to the inspection of tobacco, for the inspector's use,
the cost of the same to be paid out of the tobacco fund.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 50. 1912, sec. 48. 1904, sec. 50. 1898, ch. 314, sec. 51. 1908, ch. 9,
sec. 50. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 48. 1920, ch. 39, sec. 48.

50. If any owner, or owners of tobacco, or his, her or their agent or
agents, shall believe that any of their tobacco has been incorrectly sampled,
and shall so notify the inspector before the sale thereof, and within ten
days of the date of its inspection, the matter shall be referred to a com-
mittee of arbitration, consisting of three persons, to be selected as follows:
One thereof shall be selected by the inspector and approved by the Governor,
one thereof shall be selected by the owners of the tobacco or their agent or
agents, and the two thus selected shall select the remaining member of
the committee, and said committee shall then have the power to require
the said inspector, in charge of said hogshead or hogsheads of tobacco to
have the same reopened, and if it shall be found that the sample does not
correctly represent said tobacco, the said committee or a majority of them,
shall select a sample which shall correctly represent it, and the new sample
shall be substituted in the place of the rejected sample, at no cost to the
owner or owners; provided, that if said sample shall be found by said com-
mittee to properly represent said tobacco, then the cost of the reopening
said tobacco shall be paid by the owner or owners of the same, and said
costs shall be one dollar per hogshead.
See sec. 22, et seq.

1939, ch. 700, sec. 50A.

51. The Commissioner of Tobacco Marketing is hereby created. He
shall be appointed by the Governor for a term of four (4) years and shall
receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) and
shall be allowed five hundred dollars ($500.00) for expenses, and shall
maintain an office in Southern Maryland. He shall have power to grant
licenses to all persons or corporations engaged in buying and selling leaf
tobacco and to revoke said licenses with the right of appeal in the Circuit
Court of the County in which the licensee resides or does business. The
said Commissioner shall have the power to make rules and regulations as to
the manner in which persons and corporations engaged in buying and sell-
ing leaf tobacco shall keep their books and records, which shall be open
to inspection by the said Commissioner.

1939, ch. 700, sec. 50B.

52. No person, firm or corporation shall purchase, sell or re-sell leaf
tobacco without first obtaining a license therefor from the Commissioner
of Tobacco Marketing and paying an annual license fee of twenty-five dol-