HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1465
CHAPTER 700.
(House Bill 611)

AN ACT to add two new sections to Article 48 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Inspections",
sub-title "Tobacco", said new sections to be known as Sec-
tions 50A and 50B and to follow immediately after Section
50 of said Article, creating the Commissioner of Tobacco
Marketing, and relating to his powers, duties and compensa-
tion.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That two new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 48 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Inspections", sub-title "Tobacco", said new sec-
tions to be known as Sections 50A and 50B, to follow imme-
diately after Section 50 of said Article, and to read as follows:

50A. The Commissioner of Tobacco Marketing is hereby
created. He shall be appointed by the Governor for a term
of four (4) years and shall receive an annual salary of twenty-
five hundred dollars ($2, 500. 00) and shall be allowed five
hundred dollars ($500. 00) for expenses, and shall maintain
an office in Southern Maryland. He shall have power to grant
licenses to all persons or corporations engaged in buying and
selling leaf tobacco and to revoke said licenses with the right
of appeal in the Circuit Court of the County in which the
licensee resides or does business. The said Commissioner
shall have the power to make rules and regulations as to the
manner in which persons and corporations engaged in buying
and selling leaf tobacco shall keep their books and records,
which shall be open to inspection by the said Commissioner.

50B. No person, firm or corporation shall purchase, sell or
re-sell leaf tobacco without first obtaining a license therefor
from the Commissioner of Tobacco Marketing and paying an
annual license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25. 00) for such li-
cense. All fees received from licenses shall be paid by said
Commissioner to the State Comptroller for the general funds
of the State; provided, however, that no license shall be re-
quired for the sale of tobacco by the grower thereof or the
owner of the land on which grown, and provided further, that
the provisions of Sections 50A and 50B shall not apply to
buying or selling agencies in Baltimore City.

Any person, firm or corporation selling or buying leaf to-
bacco contrary to the provisions of Sections 50A and 50B or
the rules and regulations made by the said Commissioner of