ART. 4.] CITY OF BALTIMORE.

439

533. If any person shall offer a bribe to any in-
spector, or any other person engaged or employed
in any one of the said tobacco warehouses, as an in-
ducement to show partiality or favoritism to such
person, or otherwise to violate any provision of the
code in reference to the inspection of tobacco, he
shall, on being thereof convicted, be sentenced to

Ibid s 39
Offering bribe
to inspector.

pay a fane of three hundred dollars, which shall go
to the credit of the tobacco fund.

Penalty

634. If any person shall erase, alter or add to any
word, letter, mark, number or figure placed in pur-
suance of this article, by any inspector, or any one
in the employment of any inspector, on any hogs-
head, or written in pursuance of this article, by any
inspector, or any one in the employment of any in-
spector, on the label of any sample, or shall fraudu-
lently take any tobacco from any sample, or substi-
tute other tobacco for any in such sample, or any
part thereof, or shall counterfeit any inspector's cer-
tificate or seal, he shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit

Ibid B 40.
Erasing or al-
tering marks.

three hundred dollars, to go to the credit of the to-
bacco fund, and be otherwise punished according to
law.

Penalty.

535. 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 violat-

Ibid s 41.
Tobacco car-
ried out of state
must be in-
spected.

ing the provisions 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.

Penalty.

536. 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
and bulge, and if any such tobacco shall be packed
in a larger hogshead, the inspector having charge

Ibid s 42
Dimensions of
casks.