68 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 39

of eight hundred dollars per annum; two sample tyers, each
at a salary of seven hundred dollars per annum; one janitor,
one finder, one elevator and stay-floor man, and ten screw-
men each at two dollars per day; and four laborers, each at
one dollar and half per day. The inspector may also, in his
discretion, employ such additional help (clerical and manual)
as may be necessary for the efficient and economical manage-
ment of the warehouses; to be paid during the time employed
at the same rates as above fixed for similar services, and he
shall keep in his office a current public record of such addi-
tional help employed by him, the duties to be discharged and
the pay to be received by the same; and he may assign any
appointee or employee to any work deemed by him. necessary
for the business of the tobacco warehouses; or for the promo-
tion of the tobacco growing industry of the State, and he
shall (as far as possible) equitably apportion the patronage at
his disposal among the inhabitants of the tobacco-growing
counties of the State.

13. The inspector shall have full charge of all the receipts
and disbursements of said warehouses, including repairs: re-
pairs requiring the expenditure of an amount in excess of
two hundred ($200.00) dollars shall only be made with the
approval of the Governor, and the inspector shall make a
report quarterly to the Comptroller on the first days of Janu-
ary, April, July and October of each year, showing the re-
ceipts and disbursements of each of said warehouses, with
vouchers therefor, giving in detail the respective amounts re-
ceived from outage, storage, cooperage, reconditioning, stay
and sale of scraps, and also showing the respective 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, except that the
inspector shall withhold therefrom the sum of four thousand
($4,000.00) dollars for a period of three months or so long as
may be needed to meet the current expenses of the ware-
houses until the receipts thereof will enable the payment of
the four thousand dollars ($4.,000.00) so withheld to the
Comptroller as above provided.

22. Whenever any dispute shall arise concerning the cor-
rectness of any sample furnished by the inspector of tobacco