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paid by the inspectors from the receipts into their respective
offices. The inspectors shall at no time employ more laborers
than is necessary for the effective performance of the work to be
done, and in his quarterly returns to the Comptroller of the
State, each inspector shall state the average number of screw-
men and laborers employed - in his warehouse during said
quarter, and amount of compensation paid them, and the several
clerks in his employment.

40. Each tobacco inspector shall have charge and control of
the wharf in front of the warehouse to which lie may have been
appointed, as far as is necessary to facilitate the landing of
tobacco, thereat, or the removal of tobacco therefrom, and any
master or owner of any vessel in front of such warehouse, not
having any tobacco on board, who shall refuse or neglect to
remove his vessel, upon the request of such tobacco inspector,
or his clerk, in order that a vessel having tobacco on board may
land the same, or that a scow or vessel may receive tobacco,
therefrom, shall pay a fine of not less than five, nor more than
twenty dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace
of the city of Baltimore, for the use of tobacco fund.

41. Each of said tobacco inspectors and persons employed
by him, as aforesaid, shall, unless prevented by sickness or un-
avoidable accident, occupy ten hours every day, except Sundays
and hollidays, in the .actual and personal discharge of his
particular duties under this act.

42. If any tobacco inspector shall be prevented, except by
sickness or unavoidable accident, from attending at the ware-
house to which he is appointed, he shall designate some com-
petent and proper person to act as his substitute, who shall be
compensated out of the salary of said tobacco inspector, and for
whose acts the said inspector and his bond shall be liable, and
his salary shall cease during the time he is so absent, provided
such absence exceeds six days at any one time.

43. All tobacco landed or delivered at any of the warehouses
in the city of Baltimore, for inspection, shall be taken charge of