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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

chapter 251 of the Acts of 1894, and chapter 280 of the Acts
of 1896, and sections 14, 15, 18, 23, 25, 29, 41 and 44 of said
article as codified, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, and a new section be and the
same is hereby added to said article and sub-title, to be desig-
nated as section 51, and to read as to all of said sections, as
follows :
9. The Governor shall nominate and by and with the advice

Officers
appointed.

and consent of the Senate, biennially appoint one chief inspec-
tor of tobacco, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum,
who shall have charge of all the State Tobacco Warehouses
now used in the city of Baltimore, whose term of office shall
begin on the first day of March following ; the Governor shall
also biennially appoint three deputy inspectors, whose term
shall begin and end at the same time as the chief inspector,
and who shall receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars
each per annum.

10. The chief inspector so appointed shall, before entering
upon the discharge of the duties of his office, give bond to the
State of Maryland in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, with a

Bond to be
given.

surety or sureties to be approved by the treasurer of the State,
conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties imposed
on him by law and for the full and punctual report at the end
of each quarter of the receipts and disbursements of the State
tobacco warehouses in the city of Baltimore under his charge,
which bond shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city, and the said chief inspector
shall, so soon as he shall have bonded and qualified as required
by law, take charge of all the tobacco warehouses in Baltimore
city, except No. 2 warehouse, and all the tobacco, books, fur-
niture, appurtenances and effects belonging to the same, and
shall receipt to his predecessors in office for the same, and upon
the appointment and qualification of his successor, shall deliver
the same to said successor and take a similar receipt ; he shall
personally or by deputy inspectors or their assistant deputies,
in this Act provided for, inspect all tobacco in said warehouses ;
but said chief inspector, the deputies, assistant deputies or other
persons appointed to or employed in said tobacco warehouses shall
not be engaged in the purchase or sale of tobacco (except that
they may sell tobacco of their own raising), nor shall it be law-
ful for any person thus appointed or employed in the ware-
houses to receive any gift or emolument whatever, either
directly or indirectly, for any favor rendered in the line of his
duty, other than his regular salary or wages, and any person