ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 601

and economical management of the warehouse. Such em-
ployees shall be paid the salaries or wages provided by the
General Assembly through the annual budget or appropria-
tion act. The Inspector may assign any appointee or em-
ployee to any work deemed by him necessary for the
business of the tobacco warehouse or for the promotion of
the tobacco growing industry of the State, xand he shall,
as far as possible, equitably apportion the appointments to
be made by him between the tobacco growing counties of
the State.

The Inspector, with the approval of the Governor, shall
appoint not more than two persons, competent and quali-
fied to grade tobacco, to be known as tobacco graders, at
an annual salary of not more than two thousand two hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($2, 250. 00). The Inspector in mak-
ing said appointments shall only appoint persons who have
been trained by the United States Department of Agricul-
ture in cooperation with the State Board of Agriculture and
each of said persons so appointed or to be appointed must
have a certificate of competency from said United States
Department of Agriculture and the State Board of Agri-
culture, showing that he is competent and qualified.

The said graders shall have the power and authority, and
it is hereby declared to be their duty, to fix and establish
proper grades for Maryland grown tobacco, and in so far
as it is practicable to do so, they shall follow as closely as
possible the grades established by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. It shall be the duty of the grad-
ers to grade all Maryland grown tobacco sold or offered for
sale on or through the Baltimore market, whether said to-
bacco is stored in the State Tobacco Warehouses or in other
warehouses, and for this purpose said graders shall have
the authority to go into other warehouses where tobacco is
stored at the time samples are being taken.

21. Every inspector shall have uncased and break every
hogshead of tobacco that may be delivered for inspection
in not less than five different places for Maryland and Ohio
and not less than three different places for Kentucky and
Virginia tobacco and in as many more places as may be
necessary to fully determine the contents of said hogshead,
and if the inspector shall be of the opinion that such tobacco
is sound, clean and in good order, then he shall select from
each break as many bundles as will correctly represent the
different qualities of tobacco contained in the break, and
the bundles so selected shall be considered the sample of
the hogshead; he shall also have the hogshead properly