THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

CHAPTER 245.

CHAP. 245.

An act to regulate the Inspection of Tobacco in Prince
George's County.

Passed Mar. 24,
1838.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all the warehouses for the inspection
of tobacco, now erected, or that may hereafter be
erected in Prince George's county, shall be, and they

Warehouses of,
declared State
warehouses.

are hereby declared to be State warehouses, and it. shall
be the duty of the Governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the, Senate, to nominate and appoint all
inspectors of tobacco in said county, on the first Mon-
day of February in each and every year, and before

Governor to ap-
point Inspec-
tors.

any of said inspectors shall act as such, he shall give
bond to the State of Maryland, with security to be ap-
proved of by the clerk of said county, in the penalty
often thousand dollars, conditioned for his faithful per-
formance of the duties required by this act, and shall
further take the oath of office now prescribed by law.

Bond required.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the bonds of all
said inspectors shall be recorded in the clerk's office of

Recorded.

said county, and a copy of said bonds, and each of them,
shall be transmitted by the clerk of said county, annual-
ly, to the Treasurer of the Western Shore, whose duty
it shall be, to put the same in suit whenever a breach
of the condition thereof may have been committed, and
all recoveries thereon shall be for the use of the State
of Maryland.

Copy annually
to Treasurer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all the revenue aris-
ing from the inspection of tobacco in said county, shall
be paid into the treasury of the State for the Western
Shore, to be denominated the Tobacco Inspection Fund

Revenues there,
of payable to
Treasurer W.
S.

for Prince George's county, a separate and distinct ac-
count whereof shall be kept by the treasurer thereof,
and it shall be. the duty of each of said inspectors to
account every three months, under oath, with the said
treasurer, and pay over to him all such monies as may
have been received by them, or any of them, for, or on
account of their respective warehouses, together with
an account of the number of hogsheads of tobacco in-
spected and delivered out by them, or any of them,
during the three months for which his or their return

Separate ac-
count.