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subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be
recovered in the Criminal Court of Baltimore city.
47. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause each hogs-
head 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.
48. 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 centained therein,
and to cause the warehouse number of such hogshead to be
marked with blacking on each head thereof.
49. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause all tobacco
under his charge to be uncased and broken, and himself, or
some competent person appointed by him to draw samples
thereof, and cause the same to be tied, fastened, labeled and
marked, as hereinafter provided.
50. Each hogshead of tobacco raised in Maryland or Ohio,
shall be .broken in five different places, the first break to be not
more than nine inches from the floor, and one bundle shall be
taken from each break of the average quality thereof, and the
five bundles so taken, shall be so drawn as to constitute a fair
and just sample of the quality and condition of the tobacco in
said hogshead.
51. Each hogshead of tobacco which may have been raised' in-
any other State than Maryland or Ohio, shall be broken in three-
different places, and five bundles shall be taken from each break
of the average quality thereof, and the fifteen bundles so taken,
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