278             JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS          [Feb. 8,

leaving a ballance in favor of the tobacco fund for said year,
of eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and
eighty cents, and it will further appear from the Comptroller's
Report of 1857, the expenses amounted to the sum of fifty-
seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-
seven cents, when the receipts for said year, amounted to the
sum of eighty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty-five
dollars and three cents, making the sum of thirty-nine thous-
and two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-six cents,
applicable to paying the interest and principal, upon the
tobacco fund debt.

And your committee would respectfully represent to the
General Assembly, that it shall be the duty of the inspectors
at the several warehouses in the city of Baltimore, to give
their personal attention to the inspection of tobacco. They
shall not absent themselves from said duty, under a penalty
for each every day of such absence, unless a satisfactory ex-
cuse be given to the Comptroller of the Treasury.

It should be the duty of the inspectors to receive all tobacco
landed at their respective warehouses, and to see it properly
cared for, by having it placed in warehouses; and it should
further be required of said Tobacco Inspectors to pay particu-
lar attention to all stayed tobacco, all hogsheads so stayed
should first be weighed, then to be carefully separated, and
when in a condition to be repacked, and coopered at the ex-
pense of the owner; it should then be reweighed and a sepa-
rate account kept of all said stays, the said inspectors should
be allowed for one or two breaks fifty cents, for three breaks
seventy-five cents, and for four or more, the sum of one dol-
lar, including cooperage, all of which should be done by the
regular laborers employed by the several inspectors during
their regular laboring hours.

And it should be further required of the said inspectors to
report quarterly, to the Comptroller of the Treasury, all
moneys arising from such stays. And your committee would
further suggest that particular care should be taken of all
scraps of tobacco, and not suffer it to accumulate in large
quantities so as to be hurt or in any manner damaged, but
that all such scraps as may accumulate from time to time, to
be carefully separated if damp, and as soon as such scraps
are in a condition to be packed by the laborers in the employ
of said inspectors. This, also, should be done during the
regular laboring hours; and when so packed, the inspectors
should be required to inspect the said scrap tobacco in the
same manner as other tobacco is inspected. Your committee
invite particular attention to the subject of scrap tobacco, be-
lieving that the interests of the tobacco planter would be
greatly enhanced if more attention was paid, and greater