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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 14. Any person or persons who shall
pull out or break off any leaf or leaves, or
otherwise intermeddle or tamper with any
sample of tobacco after it shall have passed
from the custody or control of the Inspector,
shall, upon conviction thereof in the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city, be fined not less than
one hundred dollars for each offence, and no

Fine.

person or persons whosoever, except the In-
spector and Tying Clerk, shall be permitted
to handle any bundles of tobacco drawn for
the purposes of a sample, until after the same
shall have been properly tied up and sealed
by the Tying Clerk, and any unauthorized
person or persons handling said tobacco in
violation of the provisions of this section
shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dollars
for each offence, to be recovered before any
Police Justice of said city of Baltimore as
other fines are now recovered.

SEC. 20. The several Inspectors of Tobacco
shall charge for reconditioning and repacking
all stayed tobacco the following prices: For
one or two breaks, one dollar; full stay, two
dollars, to be paid by the owner or his agent ;
for re-inspection of Maryland and Ohio To-
bacco, one dollar for each hogshead re-in-
spected; for re-inspection of all other kinds,
two dollars for each hogshead re-inspected ;
for redrawing hogsheads of Maryland and

Charges.

Ohio Tobacco, fifty cents, and for redrawing
all other kinds one dollar for each hogshead
redrawn, to be paid by the owner or his agent ;
the charge of outage shall be two dollars for
every hogshead not exceeding eleven hundred
pounds, and twelve and a half cents additional
for every hundred pounds over eleven hun-
dred pounds, to be paid by the shipper of the
tobacco or his agent.

Added.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, &c., That
the following sections to be known and desig-
nated as sections eleven A, eleven B, eleven
C, thirty A. and thirty B, be and they are
hereby added to said article.