SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        1099

(1967 Supplement), title "Landlord and Tenant," subtitle "Distress
for Rent," subheading "Stripping and Marketing of Tobacco," be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

39H.

Whenever tobacco is grown on leased premises and the tenant fails
to make reasonable progress within [eight] six months from the
first day of September in each year to strip and place such tobacco
on the market, the landlord may, at any time after the first day of
[May] March in each year, strip, pack, ship and sell at the tenant's
expense any and all tobacco grown on the premises by said tenant
in the previous year or years £, provided, that as to Charles County,
the above provisions shall not apply until after the first day of June,
and as to St. Mary's County the first day of July in each year]. Any
and all expenses paid by the landlord in the stripping, packing, ship-
ment or sale shall be a first and prior lien on said tobacco and the
proceeds thereof, notwithstanding any agreement or obligation of
the tenant or provision of law to the contrary.

A tenant, or anyone acting on his behalf, interfering in any way
whatsoever, directly or indirectly, with the stripping, packing, ship-
ment or sale of said tobacco by the landlord, is guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine of not less
than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment for not
less than ninety (90) days nor more than six months, or both.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved May 7, 1968.

CHAPTER 577
(Senate Bill 463)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 236 (c-1)
of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Supple-
ment), title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle "State Department of
Assessments and Taxation," to revise the salary of the Supervisor
of Assessments of Allegany, Anne Arundel, Frederick, Harford
and Washington Counties.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 236 (c-1) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1967 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes," subtitle "State
Department of Assessments and Taxation," be and the same is here-
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

236.

(c-1) On and after July 1, 1967, the classifications and pay scales
of the several Supervisors of Assessments shall be in the same rela-
tive position in the standard salary scales then in effect as in the