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head not exceeding eleven hundred pounds, and twelve and a
half cents additional on every hundred pounds over eleven hun-
dred pounds, to be paid by the shipper of the tobacco or his
agent.

SEC. 50. If any owner or owners of tobacco, or his, her or their
agent or agents, shall believe that any of their tobacco has
been incorrectly sampled, and shall so notify the inspector,
before the sale. thereof, and within ten days of the date of its
inspection, the matter shall be referred to a committee of arbi-
tration, consisting 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 said inspector, in charge of said hogs-
head or hogsheads 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 majority of them, shall
select a sample which shall correctly represent it, and the new
sample shall be substituted, in the place of the rejected sample,
at no cost to the owner or owners; provided, that if said sample
shall be found by said committee to properly represent said
tobacco, then the cost of the re-opening said tobacco shall be
paid by the owner or owners of the same, and said costs shall
be one dollar per hogshead.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act be and the same is and
are hereby repealed; provided, however, that nothing in this
Act shall be construed as terminating the offices of Chief In-
spector, and three deputy inspectors, now provided for in the
Code of Public General Laws, by Section 9 of Article 48, until
the first Monday in March, 1908.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 18, 1908.

CHAPTER 75.

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AN ACT to authorize and provide for the building of a new
State Tobacco Warehouse upon the site or sites of existing
State Tobacco Warehouses in the city of Baltimore; for the
payment for said building (including removal of old build-
ings, plans, specifications, equipments and furniture) from
the moneys now in the Treasury of the State of Maryland to