372 ' INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

all contracts for nails or other articles required for the use of
said warehouses except for repairs, and shall make a report
quarterly, viz: On the first of January, April, July and Octo-
ber in each year, showing the receipts and disbursements of each
of said warehouses with the vouchers therefor, giving in detail
the respective amounts received from outage, storage, cooperage,
reconditioning, stays and sale of scraps, and also showing the
respective amounts paid for labor, nails, lumber, hoops, inci-
dentals, wages and salaries, and showing the cash balance for
each quarter, and at the quarter ending April first in each year,
pay over to the Comptroller to whom the aforesaid reports are
required to be made, all moneys in hand after paying all
expenses and salaries of said warehouses, and said chief inspector
shall have power to have tobacco delivered at such warehouses,
as in his judgment may seem best for the public interest.

1898, ch. 314.

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

Ibid.

18- It shall be the duty of the inspector to cause each hogs-
head of tobacco landed or delivered at the warehouses to be
numbered in succession, as received, and cause said number to be
entered in a book kept for that purpose, together with the time
said hogshead was received, the name of the vessel or other con-
veyance, if known to him, by which said hogshead was brought
to the city of Baltimore and of the owner or consignee of said
tobacco, and the initials or other trade-marks on said hogshead
identifying the same, and when said hogshead shall be removed
from said warehouses he shall cause an entry to be made in some
book, kept for that purpose, of the time when the same was
removed, the name of the person to whom the same was deliv-
ered and of the vessel or other conveyance by which the same
was taken away.