EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 623

inspector with the consent of said board shall have the right to
rent storage for as much as may be necessary to remove.

40. All tobacco inspected in the State Tobacco Warehouse
of Maryland shall be entitled to storage free of charge for six
months from the date of sale.

41. For every hogshead of tobacco inspected in the Mary-
land State Tobacco Warehouse which shall remain in any such
warehouses, after having been sold by the grower or his agent
for a longer period than six months, shall be subject to a storage
charge of fifteen cents for each month after the said six months,
and the inspector is charged with the collection of the same to
be accounted for in the returns to the Comptroller.

42. In the absence of the State Wharfinger, the inspector of
tobacco shall have control of the wharves in front of the ware-
houses, so far as relates to the landing or cording of wood or
other materials to the exclusion of tobacco, and vessels having
tobacco or other conveyances having tobacco to deliver to such
warehouses shall have preference over all others in the use of
such wharves; no charge for wharfage shall be laid on any
tobacco received at or delivered from any of the State ware-
house wharves.

43. The name of the owner of every hogshead of tobacco de-
livered for inspection at any State warehouse in the City of Bal-
timore shall be legibly marked or stenciled thereon; and it shall
be the duty of the inspector to retain for inspection every
hogshead of tobacco not so marked or stenciled until the name
of the owner thereof shall have been ascertained and placed
thereon.

44. It shall be the duty of the several inspectors of tobacco
to carefully return all bundles of tobacco, other than samples
which may be drawn in sampling, and all bundles which may
be displaced in uncasing tobacco to the hogshead from which the
same were drawn or displaced; and any agent or employee of
said Board who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of misconduct in office, and shall
be liable to removal.

45. It shall and may be lawful for any grower or any owner
of tobacco grown in this State to sell the same either in the
State or out of it, in hogsheads of any size or weight, or in boxes,
or in any other kind of style of package, without being com-
pelled to have the same inspected by the State inspectors and
without being compelled to place the same in the State ware-
houses for any purpose whatsoever, or to pay any charge for