WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                     Ch. 55

not less than eighteen months nor more than seven years, or both,
in the discretion of the court.]

[50.

If any person shall export, or cause to be exported, any
hogshead of tobacco marked with a forged or counterfeited mark,
or demand tobacco of any inspector upon any forged, counterfeited
or altered manifest or note, knowing such manifest or note, or
such mark, to be forged, counterfeited or altered, he shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary not exceeding seven years nor less
than eighteen months, or be fined not exceeding three hundred
dollars, or both of them, in the discretion of the court; and if
any person shall put or pack any tobacco into any hogshead marked
by any inspector, in lieu of tobacco inspected, or shall draw or
take out any stave, plank or heading board of any hogshead of
tobacco, after it shall be delivered out from any public
warehouse, unless it be for the purpose of examining the quality
of tobacco by a person intending to purchase the same, upon
conviction thereof he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars.]

[51.

The inspectors of tobacco in this State shall brand with a
hobiron on every hogshead of tobacco inspected by them the name
of the state wherein the tobacco was raised; and if any person
shall rub out or deface any such brand on any hogshead of
tobacco, with a view of changing the same, or shall falsely mark
or brand any hogshead contrary to the provisions of this section,
upon conviction thereof, he shall suffer a confinement in the
penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than two
years.]

[52.

Any person breaking any hogshead of tobacco with the word
Maryland on the bilge, or any other part of a hogshead, with
intent to evade the provisions of the laws relating to the
inspection of tobacco shall be deemed guilty of felony and upon
conviction thereof shall undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary for not less than two nor more than four years.]

Article 41 - Governor - Executive and Administrative Departments

[18-203.

The Inspector of Tobacco shall have the rights, powers,
duties, and obligations provided under Title 7, Subtitle 3 of the
Agriculture Article.]

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