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troller, pay to the said inspector out of the tobacco fund, his
quarterly salary, at the rate of twenty-five hundred dollars per
annum.

80. The books of each warehouse shall be open to the inspec-
tion of any party who may have at the time, or shall have had
previously any tobacco in said warehouse, and extracts from
said books certified to by the chief clerk of any such warehouse,
may be taken by said party if he so desire.

81. Any of the fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed upon
tobacco inspectors, or their employees, or upon any other person
for violating the law for inspection of tobacco, may be recovered
by action of debt, to be instituted within one year after the
commission of the offence charged in the name of the State, in any
of the courts of the city of Baltimore, having jurisdiction of the
amount without reference to the residence of the defendant, or
at the option of the plaintiff, in any county where the defendant
shall reside, and the clerk of any of the said courts shall direct
such process to the sheriff' of said city or county, and the return
of said process by said sheriff shall avail for all purposes as if it
were the return of the sheriff of the city or county in which suit
may have been instituted; nothing, however, in this section is
to be construed as ousting the criminal jurisdiction of the proper
courts in the premises.

82. All money now in the hands of the Treasurer, heretofore
received from any one acting as tobacco inspector, and all re-
ceived by him m pursuance of this article, and all fines, penalties
and forfeitures under this article, not otherwise provided for,
shall constitute a fund to be called the tobacco fund.

83. Where no other appropriation is made of any fine, penalty
or forfeiture, referred to in the last preceding section, one-half
thereof shall go to the informer, and the other half to the tobacco
fund; and the interest of the informer therein, shall not dis-
qualify him as a witness in any action, civil or criminal.

In force from March 10, 1864.