Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-04-01

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Tvs OF MAINLAND
The Annapolis correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun, furnishes that paper with the follow
ing synopsis of several of the Acts passed BY
the Legislature, and we copy such as are of in
terest to our readers: 4
: $50 THE INSPECTION OF TOBACCO. e
The act of 1858, oh. sol, to regulate the
inspection of tobacco in the city Of Balti-
more, and to prescribe the duties of inspec-
tors and for other purposes, nlodifies existing
acts, and provides that any tobacco inspector
now OF hereafter appointed to any warehouse,
after having properly bonded and qualified, sIa.l
take charge of all the tobacco, books furniture,
&C., in said warehouse, and shall receipt to his
predecessor for the same Each inspector shall
receive salary of 81 200, and-shall be entitled
to appoint chief clerk at a salary. of 5000, a
each, and weighing clerk at 81 so per day
Each inspector shall bOAllowed to employ as
many hands as he may think necessary, at the
following wages For screwmen 81 so per
day for all others ST per day. The hours Of
labor shall be from o'clock A. NJ. till IL NJ,
and to o'clock P NJ, and the duration of
labor in all the State tobacco warehouses shall
be ten hours per day. No person appointed or
employed shall be engaged in the purchase or
sale Of tobacco nor receive any gift or extra e.
molument upon the penalty of dismissal
Each inspector shall receipt for all tobacco
landed or delivered at his warehouse for storage
or inspection. all "stayed" tobacco shall be
carefully cased up and weighed and entered up
on book, together with the number of breaks
in such hogshead as may be stayed" "Also,
the causes, whether for order, scraps or wet, to-
gether with any other appropriate remarks. =
sAll stayed tobacco shall with all convenient
dispatch be shaken out, reconditoned and pack
ed, under the supervision of the inspector or his
deputy, and entered upon the inspection books.
The inspector shall charge, for the use of the to-
bacco fund, for reconditioning and packing all
stayed tobacco, the following prices For one
or two breaks, fifty cents; for three breaks, sew
eatr-five cents; for a full stay, one dollar, to
be paid by the owner of the tobacco or his "a
gents, &c.-provided that said owners or his a.
gent shall have the privilege of renewing said
stayed tobacco from the warehouse free from
all charge whatever for storage or cooperage;
provided that it shall not be lawful to remove
stayed tobacco from one warehouse to another,
except as all other tobacco is removed.
The act also provides that all scrap tobacco
shall be sold by the inspector, to the best ad-
vantage, for the benefit of the tobacco fund.-
Each inspector shall have charge of all the re-
csipts and disbursements of his warehouse, and
shall make all contracts for nails or other arti-
cles, except for repairs of warehouse Every
hogshead delivered not properly coopered shall
be coopered at the expense Of the owner or his
agent, which shall not be less than fifty cents
nor more than one dollar per hogshead, and said
sum shall be carried free of charge to other re-
ceipts. 49,
In the absence of the State wharfnger each
inspector or his chief clerk, shall have full con-
troll of the wharf in front of his warehouse and
any master owner of a vessel refusing to remove
it to. allow tobacco to be landed is subject to
ine of not less than SIS nor more than $40, for
the use of the State. Each inspector is to make
a quarterly report to the Comptroller and also
report to-each Legislature. &
NEGROES NAVIGATING VESSELS ON THE POTOMAC.
The act of 1858, chapter $50, provides that no
free person of color or slave shall have or use
any boat on the Potomac river or shore thereof
in Charles OF Prince Georges county, without,
IN the case of free personof color, first obtain
ing license from justice of the peace Of his
county, and III case of a slave, the special per-
NIT of his master or owner. No justice OF the
peace shall grant a license to free person of
color without written certificate that he is of
good moral character, signed by two respectable
landholders near the place where his boat is u
sllaIly had and used. If two or more landhold-
ers on the shore of the Potomac, in said coun-
ties. shall recommend in writing the Suppression
of any license &c. of a free person of color, he
shall have the opportunity of making his defense
before Justice of the peace, who shall try and
determine the case.
The penalty for using boat by any free per-
son Of color without license is a fine of not
less than five nor more than fifty dollars and
costs and the forfeiture of the boat, which shall
Be sold by order of the justice, and the proceeds
paid to the commissioners of the county.
Any slave of Charles or Prince Georges coun-
ty who shall have or use any boat in crossing the
Potomac river, or going to Alexandria Or the
District of Columbia without special written
permit of his master OF owner, SHALL upon con-
viction before justice of the peace. receive not
less ten nor more than twenty lashes, and the
boat, unless it belongs bona 7f5e, to white CT
tizen, without notice of the user shall be forfeit
ed as above. This act takes effect from the first
of June.
MANuM1ssIoN OF SLAVES.
THE act of 1868, CHI. 3O7, (which goes into
Immediate effect, provides that no slave who
NAV be hereafter manumittcd by deed OF will,
upon condition that said slave leave this State
or upon any other condition or contingency,
shall be entitled to freedom until the said con-
dition shall have been performed or the specified
contingency shall have happened. It also pro-
vitles that no slave shall hereafter be n1anumit-
ted, by deed or will, unless said slave is at the
date Of. manumission, above the age OF ten and
under the age Of forty-fve years, and able to
gain a livelihood and support by labor.
PUNISHMENT OF FREE NEGROES.
"A very important act (which is now in force
and, should be made known) connected with the
administration of criminal justice in this State