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be removed from said warehouse he shall cause an entry to be
made in some book, kept for that purpose, of the time when
the same was removed, the name of the person to whom the
same was delivered, and of the vessel or other conveyance by
which the same was taken away.

1. 8. It shall be the duty of each tobacco inspector to cause
all tobacco in the warehouse to which he may have been ap-
pointed to be inspected as speedily as practicable in regular
order as numbered without favor, affection or partiality to any-
one; and each violation of the provision of this section shall
subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be
recovered in the criminal court of Baltimore.

19. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause each
hogshead of tobacco before it is uncased, to be weighed, and
the tobacco in each hogshead and the cask itself, to be separately
weighed in. his presence or that of his weighing clerk, in scales
with weights of the proper standard; and the weight of each
hogshead as first weighed, and the gross and net weight of the
tobacco therein contained after inspection, to be entered in a
proper book, with sufficient reference to its numbers and marks
as previously recorded.

20. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause to be
marked with a marking-iron on the side of each hogshead of
tobacco under his charge the warehouse, number and weight of
said hogshead, and the net weight of tobacco contained therein,
and to cause warehouse number of such hogshead to be marked
with blacking on each head thereof.

21. Every inspector shall have uncased and break every
hogshead of tobacco that may be delivered for inspection in not
less than five different places for Maryland and Ohio and not
less than three different places for Kentucky and Virginia
tobacco and in as many more places as may be necessary to
fully determine the contents of said hogshead, and if the in-
spector shall be of the opinion that such tobacco is sound, clean
and in good order, then he shall select from each break as many
bundles as will correctly represent the different qualities of
tobacco contained in the break, and the bundles so selected
shall be considered the sample of the hogshead; he shall also
have the hogshead properly marked with its number, the year
of inspection and the names legibly written of the owner on
each head and bilge and shall have the tare and net weight
marked with iron on the bilge as directed in the preceding
section.