1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 248.

on all hogsheads exceeding eleven hundred pounds,
and not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds, one
dollar and fifty-cents; on all hogsheads over fifteen
hundred pounds, two dollars; in all cases to be
paid by the shipper of the tobacco or his agent.

Removal.

SEC. 37. The owner of any stayed tobacco or his
agent shall have the privilege of removing the
same from the warehouse free of all costs or charges
whatever, but it shall not be lawful to remove any
stayed tobacco from any warehouse to another ex-
cept as all other tobacco is removed.

Weight of
stayed tobac-
co; its ship-
ment, &c.

SEC. 38. The several lessees may grant certifi-
cates of the weights of any stayed tobacco, at the
request of the owner or his agent, which certificate
shall state the condition of the said tobacco and
the weights; and where such tobacco shall be sold
by the owner or his agent to a shipper, tobacconist
or other person, and where said person is desirous
of shipping or exporting in any other manner, the
said tobacco in its stayed condition, he may do so
upon paying the charges which are paid upon to-
bacco which has been inspected and passed, and the
lessee shall state in the manifest, he shall make
out the condition of said tobacco, and that said to-
bacco did not pass previous to its shipment.

Restriction.

SEC. 39. No hand employed in any warehouse
shall shake out, condition or repack any tobacco,
without the express direction of the lessee, of such
warehouse, and the lessee shall see that the con-
ditioning or packing is done in a proper manner.

Scrap to-
bacco.

SEC. 40. All scrap tobacco accruing in any ware-
house shall be sold by the lessee of such warehouse
to the best advantage, and the proceeds of such
sales shall be quarterly accounted for to the Comp-
troller and paid upon his warrant to the treasurer
for the benefit of the tobacco fund.

Cooperage.

SEC. 41. All tobacco delivered at any warehouse
tor inspection in such condition as to require cooper-
age, shall be properly coopered and taken care of by
the lessee and the owner or his agent charged for the
same a sum not less than twenty-five cents, nor more
than fifty cents for each hogshead thus coopered.

Advertise-
ments.

SEC. 42. Each lessee shall in the month of April,
annually, cause to be inserted in some one of the
Baltimore newspapers, once in each week, for three
months, an advertisement, stating the name of the