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LABOR AND AGRICULTURE. [ART. — .

compliance with such special contracts as are described
in this section.

Commissioner
of immigration
and immigrant
agent to trans-
fer papers, &c,
to superintend-
ent.

8. The commissioners of immigration appointed
under an act passed February eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, and the immigrant agent appointed by
an act passed March twenty-first, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, are hereby authorized and requested
to transfer to the superintendent of labor and agricul-
ture of this state all papers, documents, maps, records
and other public property appertaining to their said
offices, and take his receipt for the same, which shall
be filed among the other vouchers of said commissioner
and agent in the office of the state comptroller.

Accounts of
expenses.

9. The said superintendent shall keep an accurate
account of all moneys expended by him under the pro-
visions of this act, and make a full statement of the
same in his regular report to the General Assembly.

Public notice

10. When the superintendent of labor and agricul-
ture shall be prepared to execute the duties enjoined
by this act, he shall give public notice of the same in
at least one newspaper in every county of this state,
and in the city of Baltimore, and he may append

Forms and
rules

thereto a copy of such forms and rules as he may
adopt for the transaction of the business of this divi-
sion of his department.

Reports from
state inspectors
of agricultural
products and
fertilizers

11. The state inspectors of agricultural products
and fertilizers, shall render to the superintendent of
labor and agriculture in the forms and according to
the regulatiops prescribed by him such monthly re-
ports of the receipts and expenditures, and of the
work and business of their offices as he may prescribe.

Regulations

12. The superintendent of labor and agriculture
shall issue from time to time necessary and proper
regulations to secure economy and efficiency in the
inspection service of the state. These regulations not
inconsistent with law shall have the force of law and
be duly respected and obeyed.

Accounts, &c ,
by state inspec-
tors

13. All quarterly accounts and vouchers of receipts
and expenditures required by law to be rendered by
state inspectors to the comptroller, shall be promptly