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LAWS OF MARYLAND
houses, so far as relates to the landing or cording of wood or

Control of
wharves.

other materials to the exclusion of tobacco, and vessels having
tobacco or other conveyances having tobacco to deliver to such
warehouses shall have preference over all others in the use of
such wharves ; no charge for wharfage shall be laid on any
tobacco received at or delivered from any of the State ware-
house wharves.
51. If any owner or owners of tobacco, or his or their agent
or agents shall believe that any of their tobacco has been in-

Arbitration
committee.

correctly sampled, and shall so notify the inspector before the
sale thereof within ten days of the date of its inspection, the
matter shall be referred to a committee of arbitration, consist-
ing of three persons to be selected as follows : One thereof
shall be selected by the inspector, one thereof shall be selected
by the owner or owners of the tobacco, or their agent or agents,
and the two thus selected shall select the remaining member of
the committee; and said committee shall then have the power
to require the deputy inspector in charge of said hogshead of
tobacco to have the same re-opened and if it shall be found
that the sample does not correctly represent said tobacco, the
said committee or a majority of them, shall select a sample which
shall correctly represent, and shall be substituted in the place
of ,the rejected sample at no cost to the owner ; provided, how-
ever, that if said sample shall be found by said committee to
properly represent said tobacco, then the cost of re-opening
said tobacco shall be paid by the owner of the same, and said cost
shall be one dollar ($1.00) per hogshead.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage, aud that the first appointments
by this Act authorized shall be made immediately after the
enactment of this bill into a law, and that all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 315.
AN ACT to authorize and empower the directors of the
Frederick and Middletown Railway Company to enter into
an agreement with the Directors of the Myersville and
Catoctin Railway Company, both of Frederick County, State
of Maryland.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the directors of the Frederick and Middletown