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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

house shall agree to pay; and if any tobacco shall remain in the said
ware-house above one year after inspection, the proprietor of the said
ware-house may demand and shall be entitled to receive the further
sum of twelve and a half cents for every month thereafter.

Inspector to be
nominated.

2. And be it enacted, That the justices of the levy court of
Baltimore county, or a majority of them, shall, when the said ware-
house shall be erected or prepared and ready for the reception and
inspection of tobacco, nominate and recommend, in writing, to the
governor and council, two, or if requested by the proprietor of the
said ware-house, four persons, of whom the governor, with the ad-
vice and consent of the council, is authorised and required to ap-
point and commission one out of the two, or two out of the four, to
be the inspector or inspectors of the said ware-house, in the manner
directed by the act entitled, An act to regulate the inspection of to-
bacco, passed at November session eighteen hundred and one; and
who in the absence of the harbor master, shall have power and au-
thority to regulate the manner of admitting vessels to the wharf in
front of the ware-house for the purpose of landing tobacco for in-

Proviso.

spection at said ware-house; Provided, That the mayor and city
council, shall, in writing, consent to vest this power in the inspector
as aforesaid.

Regulations—
bond.

3. And be it enacted, That the said ware-house, when erected
or prepared, shall be in all respects under the same regulations as
other public ware-houses for inspection of tobacco in this state are
by law; and the inspector or inspectors of the said ware-house, when
appointed, shall qualify and give bond, and be subject in every res-
pect to the regulations established by the said act entitled, An act to
regulate the inspection of tobacco, as if the said ware-house had
been established by the said act, except where it is otherwise provid-
ed by this act.

Shall account.

4. And be it enacted, That every inspector appointed and
acting as such at the said ware-house, shall account quarterly, or
oftener if required, with the proprietor of the said ware-house, for all
money by him received for the inspection of tobacco, and shall pay
the same quarterly, and if required shall give bond with security to
such proprietor, to account and pay as by this act is required.

Passed Jan. 22,
1822.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 79.

An act to authorise Christian Kemp, (as guardian of Virginia Baker
and Corbin Baker,) of Frederick county, to remove into this state
from the state of Virginia, certain negroes therein mentioned.
Whereas, It is represented to this general assembly by the pe-
tition of Christian Kemp, of Frederick county, (the guardian of
Virginia Baker and Corbin Baker,) that a part of the property be-
longing to his said wards, consists of three negroes, to wit: Josiah,
aged about twenty-one years; Beckey, aged about sixteen, and Sam,
aged about fourteen years, the said negroes now being in Jefferson
county, in Virginia; that he is desirous a law may pass to enable
him, as the guardian of the said Virginia and Corbin Baker, to
bring the said negroes from Virginia into this state as the property
of his said wards—Therefore,

May import

slaves.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the said Christian Kemp, as guardian
to Virginia Baker and Corbin Baker, to remove from the state of