ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, and such in-

spectors shall so soon as they shall have bonded and qualified as

required by law, take charge of the tobacco warehouse to which

they may be assigned, and of all the tobacco, books, furniture,

appurtenances and effects belonging to the same, and shall receipt

to their predecessor for the same, and deliver the same to their

successor; they shall personally inspect all tobacco inspected in

Gifts.

the tobacco warehouse under their charge, except when prevented

by sickness or other unavoidable cause, but no inspector or other

person appointed or employed in any of the tobacco warehouses,

shall be engaged in the purchase or sale of tobacco (except of

their own growth,) nor shall it be lawful for any person thus

appointed or employed in the warehouse to receive any gift or

emolument whatever, either directly or indirectly, for any favor

or service rendered, other than his regular salary or wages, and

any person convicted of violating this section shall be at once

dismissed from office or service.

11. Each inspector shall be entitled to appoint a chief clerk at

a salary of one thousand dollars per year, and two assistant clerks

at salaries of eight hundred dollars per year, and such additional

help, including screwmen and laborers, as may be absolutely

necessary for the economical management of the business of the

warehouses, and the screwmen so employed shall each receive

two dollars per day, and the laborers shall each receive one dol-

Clerks, &c.

lar and fifty cents per day; any assistant clerks appointed under

this section shall be assigned by the inspector to duty as receiv-

ing or shipping clerks in their respective warehouses, and the

screwmen and laborers shall be subject to the orders of the in-

spector employing them, but such employment shall not continue

longer than the business demands, and the chief clerk of each

warehouse shall keep a general and full account of all the busi-

ness of his warehouse.

12. Warehouses number one and two shall be consolidated under

one management to be known as "number one," and warehouses

number three and four consolidated in like manner to be known

as "number three," (except in the case hereinafter provided for,)

and number five shall remain as at present, and the inspectors of

such warehouses shall cause the tobacco therein to be inspected

under their personal supervision as before required; when, how-

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ever, warehouses number one, three and five shall become so filled

with tobacco as to render the operations thereof difficult, or there

is a prospect of such crops of tobacco as will over-crowd the same,

the inspectors shall report the facts to the governor of the State,

and if it shall appear to the governor that the necessities of the

case require it, he shall appoint additional inspectors for ware-

houses number two and four, or for only one of them, as his

judgment may dictate, and such inspector shall appoint the