SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1819.

case of forfeiture or resumption by the legislature of the rights,
liberties, privileges and franchises, hereby granted, nothing herein
contained shall be construed to work a forfeiture of the rights of
individuals to water power under the. grants made by the president,
managers and company, but the same shall be held by individuals
in as full and ample a manner as they might do if no such forfeiture
or resumption had taken place, and in lieu of such resumption the
principal sum paid, or secured to be paid, when the conveyance has
been in fee simple, and the accruing rents and profits when the said
water power has been let for one or more years, shall be forfeited
to the state, of Maryland; And provided also, that if the said com-
pany shall at any time hereafter misuse or abuse any of the char-
tered privileges hereby granted, the legislature may at any time
thereafter resume all and singular the rights, privileges and fran-
chises, hereby granted to said company.
19. And be it enacted, That the governor be and he is hereby di-
rected, to transmit an attested copy of this act to the governor of
the state of Pennsylvania, so that he may lay the same before the
legislature of that state, for their information.

CHAP. 94.

Copy to be trans-
mitted to goverrnor
of Pennsylvania

CHAP. XCV.

A Further Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to regulate the Inspection of
Tobacco.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from
and after the first day of March eighteen hundred and twenty, it
shall be the duty of each and every inspector of tobacco in this
state, whenever tobacco shall be offered for inspection at the ware-
house for which he has been appointed, before he proceeds to in-
spect the same, to inquire and satisfy himself in what state or ter-
ritory such tobacco was grown, and if he shall have doubts respec-
ting the origin of any tobacco so offered for inspection, he shall
have power, and he is hereby authorised and required, to examine
any person or persons who may offer to give evidence of the fact,
on oath or affirmation, as the case may be, and upon his being sa-
tisfied thereof, and not before, he shall proceed to inspect the same,
and enter on his inspection book the name of the state or territory
where such tobacco was made, and specify the same in all notes and
manifests which he may issue for tobacco inspected by him; and if the
tobacco be not of the growth of this state, he shall cause the name
of the state or territory, wherein the same may have been grown,
to be carved or branded on three staves of each cask, in the most
conspicuous parts thereof.
2. And be it enacted, That if any inspector of tobacco at any
warehouse in this state, shall neglect to comply with any of the
provisions contained in the aforegoing section, he shall for each and
every offence forfeit and pay the, sum of one hundred dollars, to be
recovered by indictment in the court of the county where such of-
fence was committed, one half to the informer and the other half to
the state.

Passed Jan 31, 1820

Inspectors to satis-
fy themselves in
what state tobacco
was grown &c.

Penalty for ne-
glecting to com-
ply with provisions
of above section

chap. XCVI.

An Act to authorise John Cole, late Sheriff and Collector of Saint Mary's Coun-
ty, to complete his Collection.

1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
said John Cole be and he is hereby authorised to collect, until the

Passed Jan 31 1820

Time for collecti-
on extended, &c.