1274 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 594

competent and qualified to grade tobacco, to be known as
tobacco graders, as he may deem necessary but the total
compensation of said graders shall not exceed four thou-
sand five hundred dollars ($4, 500. 00) per year, nor shall the
annual salary of any grader exceed two thousand two hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($2, 250. 00). The Inspector in making
said appointments shall only appoint persons who have
been trained by the United States Department of Agricul-
ture in co-operation with the State Board of Agriculture
and each of said persons so appointed or to be appointed
must have a certificate of competency from said United
States Department of Agriculture and the State Board of
Agriculture, showing that he is competent and qualified.

The said graders shall have the power and authority,
and it is hereby declared to be their duty, to fix and estab-
lish proper grades for Maryland grown tobacco, and in so
far as it is practicable to do so, they shall follow as closely
as possible the grades established by the United States
Department of Agriculture. It shall be the duty of the
graders to grade all Maryland grown tobacco sold or offered
for sale on or through the Baltimore market, whether said
tobacco is stored in the State Tobacco Warehouses or in
other warehouses, and for this purpose said graders shall
have the authority to go into other warehouses where
tobacco is stored at the time samples are being taken.

Provided, however, that the tobacco of a grower or
shipper shall not be graded if, at the time said tobacco is
placed in the warehouse or shipped to the selling agency,
there is a written statement from said grower, his agent,
or shipper, that he does not wish his tobacco to be graded.

21. Every inspector shall have uncased and break every
hogshead of tobacco that may be delivered for inspection
in not less than five different places for Maryland and Ohio
and not less than three different places for Kentucky and
Virginia tobacco and in as many more places as may be nec-
essary to fully determine the contents of said hogshead, and
if the inspector shall be of the opinion that such tobacco is
sound, clean and in good order, then he shall select from
each break as many bundles as will correctly represent the
different qualities of tobacco contained in the break, and
the bundles so selected shall be considered the sample of
the hogshead; he shall also have the hogshead properly
marked with its number, the year of inspection and the
names legibly written of the owner on each head and bilge
and shall have the tare and net weight marked with iron
on the bilge as directed in the preceding section.