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74. If any person shall erase, alter or add to any word, letter,
mark, number or figure placed in pursuance of this article, by
any inspector, or any one in the employment of any inspector,
on any hogshead, or written in pursuance of this article by any
inspector, or any one in the employment of any inspector, on
the label of any sample, or shall fraudulently take any tobacco
from any sample, or substitute other tobacco for any in such
sample, or any part thereof, or shall counterfeit any inspector's
certificate or seal, he shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit three
hundred dollars, to go to the credit of the tobacco fund, and be
otherwise punished according to law.
75. After the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful to
carry out of this State, in hogsheads, any tobacco raised in this
State, except in hogsheads which shall have been inspected,
passed and marked, agreeably to the provisions of this act,
unless such tobacco shall have been inspected and passed before
this act goes into operation, and any person violating the pro-
visions of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of three
hundred dollars, which may be recovered in any court of law
of this State, and which shall go to the credit of the tobacco
fund.
76. Tobacco raised in Maryland shall not be packed in casks
exceeding fifty-two inches in the length of the staves, .and
eighty-four inches in the whole diameter within the staves
across the head aud bulge, and if any such tobacco shall be
packed in a larger hogshead, the inspector having charge of the
warehouse in which the same may be, shall notify the owner or
his agent thereof, and refuse to inspect and pass the same, until
packed in a hogshead of proper dimensions.
77. Each of said inspectors shall, every three months, count-
ing from the date of his appointment, furnish to the Comptroller
a faithful, accurate, and detailed account of all the receipts and
disbursements of his office, which account shall be verified by
the following affidavit, to be made and subscribed by said in-
spector and his chief clerk, before some justice of the peace, of
the city of Baltimore, viz: "State of Maryland, city of Balti-
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