1638.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 64.

building, the Legislature shall, at its next session there-
after, impose by law such an additional tax or increase
of outage, on the tobacco to be inspected in said ware-
houses as will be sufficient to raise the sum or sums so
paid out of the treasury aforesaid, which sum or sums
shall be paid into the treasury by the Inspectors afore-
said, to re-emburse the State for the amount thus ex-
pended in said repairs and rebuilding.

Tobacco inspected

prior to February,

1839, exempt.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That the provisions of
this act, and of the original act to which this is a sup-
plement, shall not be construed so as to relate or ex-
tend to any tobacco which may have been in said ware-
houses, or any of them, and which shall have been in-
spected prior to the first Monday in February, in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, but all the

come due for the same, shall be paid to the late inspec-

to the levy court of said county in the usual manner as
heretofore required by law.

Outage regulated.

50 cents afterwards.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That until the first day of
April, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, the
charges for outage, porterage and sealing to be paid
by the purchaser or owner of each hogshead of tobacco
inspected at, and removed from any of the said ware-
houses, shall be one dollar as heretofore required by
law, but from and after the said first day of April, in
the year aforesaid, the charges for outage, porterage

to fifty cents per hogshead, as provided for in the sixth
section of the original act to which this is a supple-
ment.

Inspector prohibit-

ed from dealing in

tobacco.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That no inspector at any
of the said warehouses, shall directly or indirectly,
during his continuance in the said office, buy either
for himself or others, or receive any tobacco by way
of barter, loan or exchange, or any way intermeddle
with, or busy himself in procuring tobacco to be
bought and sold, or consigned to any merchant, or in
loading any ship or vessel with tobacco, except the
proper tobacco raised or grown by such Inspector, under
the penalty of one hundred dollars for every hogshead
so bought, sold or consigned, except as aforesaid, the
proper tobacco of said Inspector, contrary to this act;