Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                   135

succession, as received, and cause said number to be entered in a
book kept for that purpose, together with the time said hogshead
was received, the name of the [vessel or other] conveyance, if known
to him, by which said hogshead was brought to the City of Baltimore
and of the owner or consignee of said tobacco, and the initials or
other trade-marks on said hogshead identifying the same, and when
said hogshead shall be removed from said warehouse he shall cause
an entry to be made in some book, kept for that purpose, of the time
when the same was removed, the name of the person to whom the
same was delivered and of the [vessel or other] conveyance by
which the same was taken away.

18. It shall be the duty of each tobacco inspector to cause all tobacco
in the warehouse to which he may have been appointed to be inspected
as speedily as practicable [in regular order as numbered] without
favor, affection or partiality to anyone [; and each violation of the
provision of this section shall subject the offender to a penalty of
One Hundred Dollars, to be recovered in the criminal court of Balti-
more],

20.   It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause to be marked
[with a marking-iron] on the side of each hogshead of tobacco under
his charge the warehouse, number and weight of said hogshead, and
the net weight of tobacco contained therein, and to cause the ware-
house number of such hogshead to be marked [with blacking] on
each head thereof.

21.  (a) Every inspector shall have uncased and break every hogs-
head of tobacco that may be delivered for inspection in not less than
five different places for Maryland [and Ohio and not less than three
different places for Kentucky and Virginia] tobacco and in as many
more places as may be necessary to fully determine the contents of
said hogshead, and if the inspector shall be of the opinion that such
tobacco is sound, clean and in good order, then he shall select from
each break as many bundles as will correctly represent the different
qualities of tobacco contained in the break, and the bundles so selected
shall be considered the sample of the hogshead; he shall also have the
hogshead properly marked with its number, the year of inspection
and the names legibly written of the owner on each head and bilge
and shall have the tare and net weight marked [with iron] on the
bilge as directed in Section 20.

(b)  The tobacco graders or samplers shall be present when the
hogshead is uncased and the sample taken, and they may proceed
at once to grade the tobacco according to the grade established by
them under authority of Section 11 of this Article, or may grade it
in another part of the warehouse or warehouses. The same pro-
cedure shall be followed with respect to tobacco in warehouses other
than the State Warehouses, and it shall be the duty of the person
or persons taking samples from hogsheads in warehouses other than
the State Warehouses to notify the graders or samplers of the time
when and the place where samples will be taken. The State Board
of Agriculture shall have the right and power to examine the work
of the graders or samplers and to report the results of such examina-
tions to the Tobacco Inspector.

(c)  It shall be unlawful for any sales agency or its representative,
to which tobacco has been consigned by the owner for sale, to make