160 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and shall make a report quarterly to the Comptroller on the
first days of January, April, July and October of each year,
showing the receipts and disbursements of each of said ware-
houses, with vouchers therefor, giving in detail the respective
amounts received from outage, storage, cooperage, recondi-
tioning, stays and sale of scarps, and also showing the respec-
tive amounts paid for labor, nails, lumber, hoops, incidentals,
wages and salaries, and showing the cash balance for each
quarter, and at the quarter ending July first in each year, shall
pay over to the Comptroller all moneys in hand remaining after
paying all expenses and salaries of said warehouses.

SEC. 15. In case of the absence of the inspector by reason of
sickness or any other unavoidable cause, his duties, during his
absence, shall devolve upon the chief clerk, unless the inspector
designate some other clerk or employe to act in his place; and
the person so acting shall qualify under oath for the faithful
discharge of the same.

SEC. 28. Any person or persons who shall pull out or break
off any leaf or leaves, or in any manner tamper with any
sample of tobacco, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall,
upon conviction thereof in the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City, be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each
offense; and no person, except the inspector, sampler, sample-
tyer or other designated employe shall be permitted to handle
any bundle of tobacco, drawn for the purposes of a sample, until
the same shall have been tied up and sealed as required by
law; and any unauthorized person handling said tobacco in
violation of the provisions of this section, shall pay a fine of
twenty dollars for each offense, to be recovered before any police
justice of the city of Baltimore, as other fines are now recov-
ered. It shall be the duty of each and every employe in the
State tobacco warehouses to report to the inspector any and all
violations of the provisions of this section that may come to
his notice or of which he may be cognizant; and it shall be
the duty of the inspector to make a memorandum in writing,
of each and every such violation reported to him as aforesaid,
in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose, and to be
open to public inspection.

SEC. 33. The inspector shall charge for reconditioning and
repacking stayed tobacco the following prices per hogshead:
For one or two breaks, one dollar; for full stay, two dollars, to
be paid by the owner or his agent; and for redrawing hogs-
heads of Maryland and Ohio tobacco, fifty cents each; and for
redrawing all other kinds, one dollar each, to be paid by the
owner or his agent; and for outage, two dollars for every hogs-