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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

person, sworn beforehand before some justice of the
peace in the city of Baltimore, to perform faithfully
the duty of inspector,) to cause all tobacco in the
warehouse to which he may have been appointed,
to be inspected as speedily as practicable in regular
order as numbered without favor, affection or par-
tiality to any one; and each violation of the pro-
visions of this section, shall subject the offender to

Penalty.

a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in
the criminal court of Baltimore city.

1864, c. 346 farther enacts as follows :

1854. c 316, s. 13
Each hogshead
to be weighed.
&a.

507. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause
each hogshead 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 hogs-
head 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.

Ibid s. 14
To be marked.

508. 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 contained therein, and to cause the
warehouse number of such hogshead to be marked
with blacking on each head thereof.