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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

the council to transmit to the clerks of the several counties to
which such stamps shall be sent, the amount of the expense incur-
red by the state in procuring the same; and it shall be the duty of
the said clerk to lay the same before the levy court of the said
county, who are hereby instructed and required to cause the said
sums so as aforesaid expended by the state for the use of such
county, to be assessed on the assessable property of the said count)',
to and for the use of the state, it the ware-house for which they are
furnished be public property; and if they be private property, then
the levy court are instructed to cause the inspector to retain a sum
equal to the expense so incurred.

Inspectors' fees.

7. And be it enacted, That the inspectors aforesaid, for the
performance of the duties imposed by this act, are hereby permitted
to demand and retain for themselves, five cents for each sample by
them stamped according to the provisions of this act, to be receiv-
ed by them on the delivery of the tobacco from which the same
shall have been drawn.

Duplicate sam-
ples.

8. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the inspec-
tors aforesaid, when required by the owner or his agent to draw
duplicate samples, so to do, and to stamp the samples so drawn
according to the provisions of this act, the owner or his agent first
agreeing to pay him the sum aforesaid, for every duplicate sample
thus furnished.

Boxes to pre-
serve samples.

9. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the levy
court of the county where an inspection ware-house shall be located,
to cause a part of the ware-house to be provided for the safe keep-
ing of samples; and it shall be the duty of the said inspector or in-
spectors, to take care that the boxes (to be provided by the owners)
in which the samples shall be deposited, shall not be injured nor the
same opened, unless by the permission of the owners thereof, or
their agents. And it shall be the duty of said inspectors to attend once
in each of the months of April, May, June, July, August, Septem-
ber, October and November in every year, for shewing the said
samples to dealers; which days shall be appointed by the said levy
court, and notice thereof shall be published in as many news-papers
in the District of Columbia and Baltimore, as they shall deem ne-
cessary to give information of the days so appointed; and the provi-
sions of this section are hereby declared not to extend to the city
and county of Baltimore.

Entry to be
made of tobac-
co inspected
elsewhere.

10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each and
every inspector of this state to make an entry of the tobacco by them
inspected, which may have been inspected at some other ware-house, .
and to incorporate a statement of the quality thereof so re-inspected
in the quarterly reports to be by them made as hereinafter direct-
ed.

Inspectors to
report—form--
to be publish-
ed, &c.

11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the several
inspectors, on the first Monday of April, July, October and Janua-
ry in each and every year, to report to the treasurer of the state for
the western shore, the quantity of tobacco inspected, re-inspected
and delivered from his inspection house. And the form of such re-
port, to be signed by the inspector, shall be as follows :