738 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 435

CHAPTER. 435.

AN ACT to require under penalty persons, firms or corpora-
tions engaged in the business of selling leaf tobacco on or
through the Baltimore market, to keep correct records of
such sales and to report the same to the Maryland State
Board of Agriculture.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That every person, firm or corporation, engaged regu-
larly in the business of selling leaf tobacco on or through the
Baltimore market, either for the account of the grower, owner
or other principal, or for his, its or their own account, shall
keep a correct account, upon a form to be prescribed by the
Maryland State Board of Agriculture, of the number of hogs-
heads and total pounds of leaf tobacco sold daily by such per-
son, firm or corporation, and that said account verified by
oath shall on or before the fifth day of each succeeding month
be returned or delivered to the Executive Officer of the Mary-
land State Board of Agriculture. The form of said account
to be prepared by the said the Maryland State Board of Agri-
culture as aforesaid, shall be so arranged and classified as to
show under three separate classifications or headings, entitled
"Southern Maryland Tobacco," "Up Country Tobacco" and
"Tobacco Produced Outside of Maryland;" first, the number
of pounds of tobacco sold for the producers of tobacco first
hand; second, the number of pounds sold for dealers, and
third, the number of pounds bought for the account of the
said person; firm or corporation making said report, or for the
account of some other person, firm or corporation engaged in
selling leaf tobacco. That each person, firm or corporation
engaged in selling leaf tobacco as aforesaid, shall keep its
books in such manner as to show the warehouse hogshead num-
ber, weight, tare and net, date of sale, of each hogshead of
tobacco, to whom the same was sold and at what price per
pound, and the account or report required to be made as
aforesaid to the Maryland State Board of Agriculture shall
show clearly the average price received by such person, firm
or corporation for tobacco sold during the month. When such
information is received by the Executive Officer of the Mary-
land State Board of Agriculture, he shall immediately cause
same to be copied in a book kept for that purpose, and shall
in said book keep separate and apart the returns to him from