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pains taken to preserve the scraps. The following shows the
number of hogsheads of scraps accumulating, and the amount
derived from the sale of scraps during the last year:

The number of hogsheads of scraps amounted to three hun-
dred and nine, and the proceeds thereof amounting to the sum
of $11,760 79. This is a serious loss to the tobacco grower,
and there should be some legislation to remedy the evil and
to protect the grower from imposition, and from loss of this
character.

It should also be the duty of the Tobacco Inspectors to at-
tend to the keeping of the Tobacco Warehouses in good re-
pair, and should be required to report, in their quarterly re-
port to the Comptroller of the Treasury, the condition of said
warehouses; and your committee would further suggest that
the laborers employed by the several Tobacco Inspectors in
the city of Baltimore should receive as compensation $1 25
per day, and that they be required to work ten hours per day,
instead of eight hours per day as heretofore, the inspector to
keep a regular account of the same, and the chief clerk to re-
ceive an additional salary to that which is now allowed by
law.

The said inspectors should also be required to contract for
and purchase the nails used in their respective warehouses,
as the expenses for that article amounted during the past year
to the sum of $6,475 83. Your committee believing that if
the inspectors were to furnish their own nails, it would be
more economical, and cost a much less sum.

Your committee, also, would recommend a screw to be fur-
nished for the new warehouse used by No. 3; also, iron safes .
for Warehouses Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

It appears from an examination that there is no law au-
thorising the Comptroller to appropriate such sums of money
as are necessary to keep said warehouses in proper repair,
your committee would therefore suggest the propriety of an
appropriation of $3,000, or so much thereof as will be neces-
sary to put and keep them in proper condition and repair.

In connection with the Tobacco Warehouses, your commit-
tee have examined the State wharf property, and in places
have found it out of repair, and requiring immediate atten-
tion, and are also of the opinion that said property should,
as it could be, rendered more profitable for revenue purposes.
Your committee are also of opinion that a much larger rev-
enue could be derived from this valuable wharf property, and
believe that as now managed, individuals have the use and
advantages of the same at a price merely nominal, and far
below that which might be obtained.

GEORGE M. SMITH,

Chairman.