T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

or receive any tobacco by way of barter, loan or
exchange, or any way intermeddle with, or busy
himself in procuring tobacco to be sold or consigned
to any merchant, or in loading any ship or vessel
with tobacco, except the tobacco grown by such
inspector, under the penalty of sixteen dollars for
every hogshead of tobacco so bought or received, or
procured to be sold or consigned.

CHAP. 248.

SEC. 9. If any inspector shall accept or receive
directly or indirectly any gratuity or reward, for
anything by him done in pursuance of his office,
other than his salary, he shall forfeit the sum of
three hundred dollars, and shall be disabled from
holding the office of inspector, to be recovered on
conviction before the Criminal Court of Baltimore
city, one-half to the informer, the other half to the
State, for the benefit of the tobacco fund.

Gratuities.

SEC. 10. If any person shall offer any gratuity,
reward or bribe to any inspector for anything to
be done by him as inspector, he shall forfeit the
sum of three hundred dollars, to be recovered and
applied as prescribed in the foregoing section.

Forfeitures.

SEC. 11. The salary of each inspector shall be
twelve hundred dollars per annum, payable quar-
terly by the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the
Comptroller, out of the tobacco fund.

Salary of in-
spectors.

SEC. 12. No person shall export or carry out of
this State by land or water, except to some other of
the United States or the District of Columbia, any
tobacco, unless in hogshead, which shall be in-
spected, marked, and passed at some warehouse as
hereinafter mentioned; and if any person shall ex-
port any tobacco contrary to the provisions of this
section, or shall load any tobacco on board any
vessel for exportation contrary thereto, he shall
forfeit and pay five hundred dollars for every such
offence, to be recovered in any court of this State,
one-half to the informer, and the other half to the
State for the use of the tobacco fund.

Exported to-
bacco.

SEC. 13. No captain of a ship or other vessel
taking in tobacco for exportation shall receive any
on board of his ship or vessel without a manifest
signed by the lessee of the warehouse whence the
same was brought, and no lessee shall sign any
such manifest until the inspection of the tobacco
manifested shall be certified to him by the inspec-

Manifests.

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