LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ploye as the inspector may select or designate, who shall qualify
under oath for the faithful discharge of the same.
18. It shall be the duty of the inspector to cause each hogs-

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head of tobacco landed or delivered at the warehouses to be
numbered in succession, as received, and cause said number to
be entered in a book kept for that purpose, together with the
time said hogshead was received, the name of the vessel or
other conveyance, if known to him, by which said hogshead
was brought to the city of Baltimore and of the owner or con-
signee of said tobacco, and the initials or other trade-marks on
said hogshead identifying the same, and when said hogshead
shall be removed from said warehouses he shall cause an entry
to be made in some book, kept for that purpose, of the time
when the same was removed, the name of the person to whom
the same was delivered and of the vessel or other conveyance
by which the same was taken away.
23. Whenever any dispute shall arise concerning the correct-

Hogsheads of
tobacco
to be num-
bered.

ness of any sample furnished by the inspector of tobacco under
the seal of the State, 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 inspec-
tor, one thereof shall be selected by the claimant or claimants,
or his or their agents, and the two thus selected shall select the
remaining number of said committee ; provided, however, that
no person shall be so selected, or if selected, shall be compe-
tent to serve as a member of any committee of arbitration,
who shall have a direct or indirect interest in the tobacco in
controversy.
25. The inspector shall pay the amount of any award made

Arbitration
committee.

in writing and under seal by any committee of arbitration duly
constituted as heretofore provided, to the party or parties
thereto entitled, within thirty days after the date thereof, and
shall take the receipt; of the claimant or his agent for the
same, which said receipt together with said award signed and
sealed by said committee of arbitration or a majority of them,
shall be returned by the inspector to the Comptroller of the
Treasury in the inspector's next ensuing report thereafter and
shall be a voucher for money expended.
41. Whenever so large an amount of inspected tobacco shall

Pay the
amount of
award.

have accumulated in the warehouses as to delay inspections,
the inspector shall have the right to rent storage for as much
as may be necessary to remove.
44. In the absence of the State Wharfinger, the inspector of
tobacco shall have control of the wharves in front of the ware-

Rent storage.