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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

employ as many laborers at one dollar and fifty cents per day
as may be necessary for the proper and economical management
of the respective warehouses, and it shall be the duty of the
chief inspector to order the discharge of any or all of said
additional laborers in part or whole, whenever the regular force
can do the work.
12. At the end of each day the tobacco note clerk in each

Report to be
made.

of said warehouses, shall make a detailed report of the opera-
tion of such respective warehouses to the chief clerk,who shall
enter a full record thereof in a book kept by him for that pur-
pose ; the chief clerk shall collect all monies due said ware-
houses, and in a set of books to be provided for that purpose,
keep the accounts of each warehouse separately, and consoli-
date the operations of all of said warehouses in one general
ledger, so as to show the operations thereof individually and
collectively. The chief inspector shall select an office in one
of the warehouses now used by the State, to be most agreeable
to him, with a due regard to the most central location for the
purpose of business.
13. The salaries and wages of the chief inspector, deputies,

Salaries.

assistant clerks and all employes and appointees of said ware-
houses shall be from the receipts thereof and from no other
source.
14. The chief inspector shall have full charge of all the
receipts and disbursements of the said warehouses, shall make

Duties of
chief
Inspector.

all contracts for nails or other articles required for the use of
said warehouses except for repairs, and shall make a report
quarterly, viz : On the first of January, April, July and Octo-
ber in each year, showing the receipts and disbursements of each
of said warehouses with the vouchers therefor, giving in detail
the respective amounts received from outage, storage, cooper-
age, reconditioning, stays and sale of scraps, and also showing
the respective amounts paid for labor, nails, lumber, hoops,
incidentals, wages and salaries, and showing the cash balance
for each quarter, and at the quarter ending April first in each
year, pay over to the Comptroller to whom the aforesaid
repoits are required to be made, all moneys in hand after pay-
ing all expenses and salaries of said warehouses, and said chief
inspector shall have power to have tobacco delivered at such
warehouses, as in his judgment may seem best for the public
interests.

Case of
sickness.

15. In case of absence of the inspector by reason of sickness
or any unavoidable cause, then during his absence his duties
shall devolve upon the chief clerk or other such clerk or em-