JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 599
dred and seventy-two, be and the same are hereby
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Repealed and
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repealed, amended and re-enacted so as to read as
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re enacted.
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follows :
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1. That the Governor, by and with the advice
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Governor to
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and consent of the Senate, shall biennially appoint
five Inspectors of Tobacco, one for each Tobacco
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appoint to-
bacco inspec-
tors.
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Warehouse in the city of Baltimore.
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5. That each inspector shall be entitled to ap-
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Inspector
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point a chief clerk, a shipping clerk, a receiving
clerk, and a weighing clerk, and such number of
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to appoint
clerks, &c.
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screwmen and laborers as shall be necessary for
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the economical management of his warehouse ;
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the salary of the inspectors to be eighteen hun-
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dred dollars per annum, and of the chief clerk
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one thousand dollars per annum, and of the ship-
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ping, receiving and weighing clerks, each, eight
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hundred dollars per annum ; the screwmen shall
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be paid two dollars a day, and laborers employed
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under this section shall receive one dollar and
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fifty cents a day.
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13. That it shall be the duty of the inspector to
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How in-
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confine the sample of each hogshead of tobacco
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spected.
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inspected, by tying them together with a strong
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tape, run through the head of said sample in sucn
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manner as shall be most likely to prevent the
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bundles from separating or being pulled out, and
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shall confine on said sample a pasteboard label, on
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which shall be written the marks and number of
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the hogshead, the date of inspection, the name or
number of the warehouse, and such other remarks
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Mark quality.
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by the inspector about the quality and condition
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of the tobacco as cannot be clearly shown by the
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sample, and shall seal said tape and label with
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sealing-wax, and shall stamp it with the seal of
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the warehouse. Whenever a hogshead of tobacco
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is redrawn or reviewed; the sample and label
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thereon of the original inspection shall be re-
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turned to the inspector, to be by him destroyed ;
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and the label on the sample given at the redraw-
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ing or reopening of the tobacco shall show that
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the hogshead has been reinspected or reviewed.
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SEC. 2 Be it enacted, That sections one and five
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When effec-
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of this act shall take effect on the first Monday of
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tive.
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