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47. The Comptroller, Librarian, or other proper officer,
shall furnish the said inspector with a reasonable number of
bound copies of so much of this article as relates to the in-
spection of tobacco, for the inspector's use, the cost of the
same to be paid out of the tobacco fund.

48. 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
arbitration, consisting of three persons, to be selected as fol-
lows: One thereof shall be selected by the inspector and ap-
proved by the Governor, one thereof shall be selected by the
owners of the tobacco or their agent or agents, and the two
thus selected shall select the remaining member of the commit-
tee, and said committee shall then have the power to require
the said inspector, in charge of said hogshead or hogsheads
of tobacco to have the same reopened, and if it shall be found
that the sample does not correctly represent said tobacco, the
said committee or a 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 tobac-
co, then the cost of the reopening said tobacco shall be paid
by the owner or owners of the same, and said costs shall be
one dollar per hogshead.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public safety, and being passed
upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its pass-
age.

Approved February 27, 1920.

CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown to issue coupon bonds upon the faith and
credit of Hagerstown to raise a sum of money to be used
in the construction of a new city electric light plant for