602 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 325

marked with its number, the year of inspection and the
names legibly written of the owner on each head and bilge
and shall have the tare and net weight marked with iron
on the bilge as directed in the preceding section.

The tobacco graders shall be present when the hogshead
is uncased and the sample taken, and they shall proceed at
once to grade the tobacco according to the grades estab-
lished by them under authority of Section 11 of this Article.
The same procedure shall be followed with respect to to-
bacco in warehouses other than the State Warehouses, and
it shall be the duty of the person or persons taking samples
from hogsheads in warehouses other than the State Ware-
houses to notify the graders of the time when and the place
where samples will be taken. The State Board of Agricul-
ture shall have the right and power to examine the work
of the graders and to report the results of such examina-
tions to the Tobacco Inspector.

It shall be unlawful for any sales agency or its repre-
sentative, to which tobacco has been consigned by the
owner for sale, to make any suggestions or objections as to
any particular bundle to be included in or excluded from
the sample or to interfere or to try to use any influence
in regard to same; and any person violating this provision
shall, upon conviction be subject to the penalty prescribed
by Section 53 of this Article.

22. Whenever any dispute shall arise concerning the
correctness of any sample furnished by the inspector of
tobacco under the seal of the State, or of any grade fixed
by the Tobacco Graders, said controversy shall be referred
to a committee of arbitration consisting of three persons
to be selected as follows: one thereof shall be selected by
the inspector with the approval of the Governor, one
thereof shall be selected by the claimant or claimants or
his or their agents, and the two thus selected shall select
the remaining member of said committee; provided, how-
ever, that no person shall be so selected, or if selected shall
be competent to serve as a member of any committee of
arbitration who shall have a direct or indirect interest in
the tobacco in controversy.

27. It shall be the duty of the inspector to confine the
sample of each hogshead of tobacco inspected, by tying
them together with a strong tape run through the head of
said sample in such manner as shall be most likely to pre-
vent the bundles from separating or being pulled out, and
shall fasten on said sample a pasteboard label on which