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25.    Tampering with samples.

Any person or persons who shall pull out or break off any leaf or
leaves, or in any manner tamper with any sample of tobacco, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction [thereof in the
Criminal Court of Baltimore City,] be fined not more than one hun-
dred dollars for each offense; and no person, except the inspector,
sampler, sample tier, or other designated employee shall be permitted
to handle any bundle of tobacco, drawn for the purpose of a sample
until the same shall have been tied up and sealed as required by law;
and any unauthorized person handling said tobacco in violation of the
provisions of this section, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars for each
offense to be recovered [before any police justice of the City of Bal-
timore,] in the District Court as other fines are now recovered. It
shall be the duty of each and every employee in the State tobacco
warehouses to report to the inspector any and all violations of the pro-
visions of this section that may come to his notice or of which he
may be cognizant; and it shall be the duty of the inspector to make
a memorandum in writing, of each and every such violation reported
to him as aforesaid in a book to be kept in his office for that purpose,
and to be open to public inspection.

26.    Loss of certificate or note—In general.

If any certificate or note be lost or mislaid or destroyed the person
entitled to receive the tobacco by virtue of such note or certificate may
make oath before a [justice of the peace] notary public to the effect
of said note being lost and shall take a certificate to that effect
from [such justice of the peace] the notary public to the inspector
and deposit the same with him; then the inspector may deliver to
such person a new note or certificate with marks, numbers, weights
and date corresponding with the former note and the inspector
shall thereby be discharged from all action and demands on account
of such former note or certificate.

80. Transportation of diseased trees; vines, shrubs.

Should any nurseryman, agent, broker, dealer, or other person send
out or deliver within the State, or transport to any other state or
territory or the District of Columbia, trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds
or cuttings, subject to the attacks of insects and diseases above pro-
vided for, without attaching a copy of said certificate, deface or de-
stroy said certificate, or wrongfully attach a certificate, he shall be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction [before
any justice of the peace] be fined a sum not less than ten dollars
($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of prosecu-
tion for each and every offense, [and stand committed until such fine
and costs are paid,] and the fines so collected, if imposed by a circuit
court or by the Criminal Court of Baltimore, following a de novo
appeal from the District Court, shall be paid to the trustees of the
said college and be added to the funds herein provided for carrying
out the provisions of this subtitle.

82. Shipping nursery stock into State—In general.

When any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings commonly
known as nursery stock are shipped into this State from any other
state or territory, or the District of Columbia to any nurseryman,