848 INSPECTIONS—TOBACCO. [ART. 48

number of screwmen and laborers as shall be necessary for the
economical management of his warehouse; the salary of the
inspectors to be eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and of the
chief clerk one thousand dollars per annum, and of the shipping,
receiving and weighing clerks, each eight hundred dollars per
annum; the screwmen shall each be paid two dollars a day, and
laborers employed under this section shall each receive one dollar
and fifty cents a day.

1872, ch. 36, sec. 6.

14. Each inspector shall have full charge of all the receipts
and disbursements of the warehouse to which he may be
appointed, and shall make all contracts for nails, or any other
articles that may be required for the use of his warehouse, except
for repairs, and shall make a regular return to the comptroller of
the treasury four times in each year, viz: January, April, July
and October, showing the receipts and disbursements of his
warehouse, with the vouchers therefor, setting forth in his report
of receipts the amount received from outage, storage, cooperage,
re-conditioning stays, sale of scraps, and so forth; and in his
disbursements, the amounts paid for labor, nails, lumber, hoops,
ond ordinary incidental expenses.

Ibid. sec. 8.

15. In case of the absence of any inspector from his ware-
house, by reason of sickness or other unavoidable causes, then,
during his absence his duties shall devolve upon the chief clerk,
or such other clerk or employee as he may select or designate,
who shall qualify, under oath, for the faithful discharge of the
same.

Ibid, sec 9.

16. The hours of labor in the several tobacco warehouses in
the city of Baltimore shall be from seven o'clock, A. M.. until
twelve o'clock, M., and from one o'clock, P. M., until six o'clock, P. M

Ibid. sec. 10.

17. All tobacco landed or delivered at any of the warehouses in
the city of Baltimore, for inspection, shall be taken charge of by
the inspector, through his receiving clerk, and the parties deliver-