370 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 4

engaged in the purchase or sale of tobacco (except that they may
sell tobacco of their own raising, ) nor shall it be lawful for any
person thus appointed or employed in the warehouses to receive
any gift or emolument whatever, either directly or indirectly,
for any favor rendered in the line of his duty, other than his
regular salary or wages, and any person violating the provisions
of this section shall be immediately dismissed from office or ser-
vice. Each of the deputy inspectors before entering on the
duties of his office shall give bond to the chief inspector with a
surety or sureties to be approved by said chief inspector in the
sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful dis-
charge of his duties; and the said chief inspector in his discre-
tion may exact a bond from the persons who directly receive
and handle the moneys collected on account of the business
of said warehouses. The deputy inspectors shall be subject to
removal for cause by the chief inspector, with the approval of
the Governor, and the said deputy inspector shall have authority
to dismiss any assistant or employes in said warehouses when-
ever in his judgment shall seem for the good of the service for
which they are respectively employed; and every deputy inspec-
tor shall be responsible to the chief inspector for the faithful
performance of the duties of all employes under them, respec-
tively; and any neglect of duty on the part of any employe
shall be cause for his immediate removal by the deputy inspectors
in their respective warehouses.

1890, ch. 263. 1892, ch. 41. 1894, ch. 251 1896, ch. 280. 1898, ch. 314.

11. The chief inspector of tobacco shall be entitled to appoint
one chief clerk at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum,
which chief clerk shall have his office at such one of the ware-
houses as shall be designated and occupied by the chief inspec-
tor, and shall perform all the duties of chief clerk to said chief
inspector for all the business done at all of said warehouses.
The said deputy inspectors provided for in this article shall
respectively be in charge of such warehouse to which he is
assigned by the Governor, and shall each be authorized to appoint
one tobacco note clerk, one receiving clerk, one shipping clerk,
one weighing clerk, one assistant clerk, one sample tyer, one jani-
tor, one finder, one elevator and stay-floor man and not more than