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Session Laws, 1916
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EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 615

eral Assembly of Maryland, title "Inspection, " sub-title
"Tobacco, " and to re-enact same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 9 to 49 (both inclusive), as the same
are numbered and set forth in the Annotated Code of Mary-
land as legalized by Chapter 21, of the Acts of 1912, and Chap-
ter 16, of the Acts of 1914, of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, title "Inspection, " sub-title "Tobacco, " be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

9. The State Board of Agriculture shall appoint one in-
spector of tobacco, 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, and
under the direction of the said Board he shall have charge of
all the State tobacco warehouses and other property connected
therewith in the City of Baltimore, and said Board may re-
move said inspector at its pleasure.

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 re-
quired by law, take charge of all the tobacco warehouses in Bal-
timore City and. all the tobacco, books, furniture, appurtenances
and effects belonging to the same, and shall receipt to his prede-
cessor in office for the same, and upon the appointment and
qualification of his successor, shall deliver the same to the said
successor, and take a similar receipt. Said inspector shall, per-
sonally or by a sampler or samplers, in this article provided
for, inspect all tobacco in said warehouse, but neither he nor
any other person appointed to or employed in said 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 warehouses receive any gift
or emolument whatever, either directly or indirectly, for any
service in the line of his duty other than his regular salary or
wages; and any person violating the provisions of this section,
shall be immediately dismissed from, office or service. Each
of said samplers, before entering on the duty of his office, shall

 

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