1338 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

assembly of 1892, chapter 41, to rent the said warehouse for
another period, not exceeding four years, and upon such terms
as he shall deem proper and beneficial to the State, and con-
tinue to rent the said warehouse from time to time and for
such periods not exceeding four years for any one term, and
upon such terms as he shall deem proper and beneficial to the
State. The governor is also authorized to rent from time to
time the tobacco warehouse known as "old No. 2 warehouse,"
upon such terms and for such time as he shall deem proper
and beneficial to the State; but in the contract of renting said
warehouse it shall be stipulated that possession thereof shall
be delivered to the State upon such day as shall be named by
the governor in a notice in writing given by him to the person
to whom the warehouse shall be rented, not less than sixty
days before the day named for the delivery of said possession;
the contract of renting hereinbefore mentioned shall be sub-
mitted to and approved by the attorney-general, and shall con-
tain a stipulation that the said warehouse shall not be used for
the purpose of the inspections of tobacco that would be in
conflict with the tobacco inspection warehouses.

State Horticultural Department.

1896, ch. 290, sec. 51. 1898, ch. 289.

52. A State horticultural department is established for the
State of Maryland; its purpose is to suppress and eradicate
the San Jose scale, peach-yellow, pear-blight and other injuri-
ously dangerous insect pests and plant diseases throughout
the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 52.

53. The professor of entomology, the professor of vegetable
pathology, and'the professor of horticulture of the Maryland
Agricultural College and Experiment Station shall be the
State entomologist, State pathologist and State horticulturist,
respectively.

Ibid, sec 53.

54. The said horticultural department shall be under the
control of the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
College and Experiment Station, to whom the officers created
under this sub-title shall be responsible; the salary of the State
entomologist and State pathologist shall be fixed by the said
board of trustees, and the said board shall likewise fix the com-
pensation of any assistant or assistants, employe or employes,
and control all expenses thereof. The expenses of said depart-