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sub-title "Tobacco, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments to read as follows:

23. The said committee of arbitration when duly con-
stituted and appointed shall fully examine and investigate
all the facts concerning the subject in controversy before
them, and to that end they shall have power to send for
persons and papers, to compel the attendance of witnesses,
to administer oaths, and to examine witnesses on oath; they
shall determine all questions which may be submitted to
them by a majority vote, and shall assess whatever dam-
ages, if any, they may adjudge due by reason of any false
or erroneous inspection, and from their finding or award
there shall be no appeal; all damages shall be assessed upon
the basis of the market value of the particular grade of
tobacco on the date of the reclamation; and no claims on
tobacco shipped either to any point in the United States
or to any foreign country shall be considered or allowed
after the expiration of nine months from the date of its
inspection. Claims against the warehouses for unsound
or damaged tobacco shall be arbitrated as hereinabove pro-
vided in connection with other claims, but no such claims
shall be considered or allowed after the expiration of six
months from the date of the shipment of such tobacco from
the warehouses; provided, however, that no damages shall
be allowed if the inspection label has a notation stating
the contents of the hogshead are unsound, nor shall any
claims for damages against the warehouses for unsound
or damaged tobacco be allowed or paid on and after July
1, 1937.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1936.

Approved May 13, 1936.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Montgomery County, " sub-title "Police Justice, " pro-
viding for the appointment of a Justice of the Peace
for the 13th Election District at Large in Montgomery
County; for his designation as Police Justice and to re-