The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-05-21
Terms-si.sc a Year, in Advance.
PU5LIC GENERAL LAWS,
PASSED by THE GENERAL ASSEM-.
BIZ OF MARYLAND, AT JANU-
AIRY SESSION, 1856.
PUBLISHED BY AUTuoRITY.l

and fourteen of chapter thirty-six of til
| Ac's of eighteen hundred and seventy two
| entitled "an Act to add new Article to til
| Code of Public General Laws, regulating
the inspection of tobacco, and to repea
section twenty of said Act, as the sam
| was amended by chapter two hundred an,
| twenty-eight OF the Acts of eigheteen hun
dred and seventy-two, entitled an Act t
repeal and re-enact section twenty OF al
Act passed at the present Session of tn
General Assembly of Maryland, entitled
"an Act to regulate the Inspection of To
bacco," and to re-enact the same will
amendments, and to add certain new sec
tions to said Article,
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted By tile Genera
assembly Of Maryland, That sections eleven
twelve and fourteen of chapter thirty-six o
the Acts of eighteen hundred and seventy
two, entitled, IAN Act to add a new Article
to the Code of Public General Laws, regu
lating the Inspection of Tobacco" and that
section twenty of said Act, as the same was
amended by chapter two hundred and
twenty-eight of the Acts of eighteen hun,
dred and seventy.two, emitted, ian Act tC
repeal and eenact section twenty of an Acl
passed at the present Session of the General
Assembly of Maryland, entitled" an Act
TO regulate the Inspection of Tobacco" be
and the same are hereby repealed and re.en
acted SO as to read as follows:
SECTION 2. Every Inspector shall have
uncased and break every hogshead OF to-
bacco that may be delivered for inspection in
not less than five different places for Mary
land and Ohio, and not less than three diff.
ferent places for Kentucky and Virginia
and in as many more places as may be neces-
sary to fully determine the contents OF said
hogshead and if the Inspector shall be OF
the opinion that such tobacco is sound, clean
and in good order, then he shell select from
each break as many bundles as will correctly
represent the different qualities of tobacco
contained in the break, and the bundles so Sc
lected, shall be considered the sample of the
hogshead; he shall also have the hogsbead,
properly marked with its number, the year of
its inspection, and the names legibly written
Of the owner on each head and on the bilge,
and shall have the tare and net weight
marked with iron on the bilge.
SECTION 10. Ifany Inspector shall upon
examination of any hogshead of tobacco have
reason to suspect that the same is trash or
false packed, he shall cause the same to be
shaken out and repacked, and shall charge
for so doing the sum of two dollars per
hogshead, the same to be paid by the owner
vi uSObt, anu IL uhJ lbcpCStOA Shdil iiuu
that the package, cask or hogshead contain.
ing said tobacco is constructed of green or
unseasoned timber, it shall be his duty to un-
case said tobacco, and furnish new and dry
package, cask or hogshead for the same at
the cost and expense of the owner of said to-
bacco or his agent, said cost and expense not
to exceed, however, the sum of one dollar
for each package, cask or hogshead so furn-
ished.
SECTION IA. Any person or persons who
shall pull out or break off any leaf or leaves
or otherwise intermeddle or tamper with any
sample Of tobacco after it shall have passed
from the custody or control ofthe Inspector,
shall upon conviction thereof in the Criminal
Court of Baltimore city, be fined not less
than one lndred dollars for each offence,
and no jon or persons whatsoever. except
the Insl >uUor and Tying Clerk, shall be per-
mitted to handle any bundles of tobacco
drawn for the purpose of sample, until
after the same shall have been properly tied
up and sealed by the Tying Clerk; and any
unauthorized person or persons handling
said tobacco in violation of the provisions
of this section, shall forfeit and pay a fine
of twenty dollars for each offence, to be re-
covered before any Police Justice of said
City of Baltimore as other fines are now re-
covered.
SECTION 90 The several Inspectors of
tobacco shall charge for reconditioning and
repacking all stayed tobacco the following
prices for one or two breaks, one dollar;
full stay, two dollars, to be paid by the
owner or his agent; for re-inspection of
Maryland and Ohio tobacco, one dollar for
each hogshead re-inspected for reinspec-
ton of ali other kinds, two dollars for each
1, tod. TN, nI,,,,
heads of Maryland and Ohio tobacco fifty
cents, and for redrawng all other kinds, one
dollar for each hogshead redrawp, to be
paid by the owner or his agent; the charge of
outage shall be TWO dollars for every hogs
head not exceeding eleven hundred pounds,
and twelve and half cents additional for
every hundred pounds over eleven hundred
pounds, to be paid by the shipper of the to.
bacco or his agent.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted,
&C., That the following sections to be known
and designated as sections eleven A, eleven
B, eleven c. and thirty A, and thirty B, be
and they are hereby added to said Article.
SECTION II A. Whenever any dispute, shall
arise concerning the correctness of any sam
pie furnished by any Inspector of tobacco
under the seal of the State, said controversy
shall be referred to committee ofarbtration
consisting of three persons to be selected as
follows: one thereof shall be selected by the
Inspector of the warehouse in which the
disputed inspection shall have been made
one thereof shall be selected by the claimant
or claimants or his or their agents, and the
two thus selected shall select the remaining
member of said committee; provided, however
that no person shall be so selected, or if Sc.
lected shall be competent to serve as a
member of any committee of arbitration
who shall have direct or indirect interest in
the tobacco in controversy.
SECTION II B. The said committee of ar.
bitration, when duly constituted and appoint
edshall fully examine and investigate all the
facts concerning the subject in controversy
before them, and to that end they shall have
power to send for persons and papers, to
compel the attendance of witnesses, to ad
minister oaths, and to examine witnesses on
oath, they shall determine all questions which
may be submitted to them by majority
vote and shall assess whatever damages, il
any, they may adiudge due by reason of any
false or erroneous inspection and from their
| finding or award there shall be no appeal
Advantages shall be assessed upon the basis
of the market value of the particular grade OF
tobacco on the date of the reclamation; and
no claims on tobacco shipped to any point
in the United States shall be considered or
allowed after the expiration of six months
from the date of its inspection, nor after the
expiration of nine months from the date Of
its inspection, if shipped to any foreign
country; nor shall any claim be allowed up
on tobacco which shall have changed by
| fermentation.
SEoTIoE 116. The Inspector of the Ware
house ia which the tobacco was originally
inspected, shall pay the amount ofany aware
made in writing and under seal by any com
mittee of arbitration, duly constituted as here
in before provided, to the party or parties
thereto entitled within thirty days after the
date thereof, and shall take the receipt Of the
claimant, or his agent, for the same, which
said receipt, together with said award, sign