158 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ARTICLE XLVIII.

INSPECTIONS.

CHAPTER 9.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 12 and 46 of Article 48 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland (Code of 1904), title
"Inspections, " sub-title "Tobacco, " and to repeal and re-enact
with amendments Sections 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 28, 33 and
50 of said Article, title and sub-title.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 12 and 46 of Article 48 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland (Code of 1904), title "Inspec-
tions, " sub-title "Tobacco, " be and the same are hereby repealed,
and that Sections 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 28, 33 and 50 of said
Article, title and sub-title, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted as follows:

SEC. 9. The Governor, biennially, shall nominate and by and
with the consent of the Senate, appoint one inspector of to-
bacco, who shall be a tobacco grower and resident of one of
the tobacco-growing counties of this State. He shall receive a
salary of two thousand dollars per annum, shall have charge
of all the State tobacco warehouses in the city of Baltimore, and
his term of office shall begin on the first Monday of March next
ensuing his appointment.

SEC. 10. The 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 thirty thousand dollars, with
a surety or sureties to be approved by the Treasurer of the
State, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties
imposed upon him by law, which bond shall be recorded in the
office of the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
and he shall, as soon as he shall have bonded and qualified as
required by law, take charge of all the tobacco warehouses
in Baltimore city and all the tobacco, books, furniture, appur-
tenances and effects belonging to the same, and shall receipt
to his predecessor in office for the same, and upon the appoint-
ment and qualification of his successor, shall deliver the same
to said successor, and take a similar receipt. Said inspector
shall personally or by a sampler or samplers, in this Act pro-
vided for, inspect all tobacco in said warehouses, but neither
he nor any other person appointed to, or employed in said
tobacco warehouses shall engage in the purchase or sale of
tobacco (except that he may sell tobacco of his own raising),
nor shall any person appointed to or employed in said ware-