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advertisement, the lessee shall sell the same at public sale, and
account for the proceeds with the Comptroller, and upon his
warrant pay the same to the Treasurer, to be credited to the
tobacco fund.

538*. If the owner of any tobacco sold under the preceding
section shall, within one year from the sale thereof, satisfy the
Comptroller that the tobacco so sold was his right and property,
the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the
principal sum which shall have been received for such tobacco
and paid into the Treasury, deducting therefrom the warehouse
charges and costs of advertising.

539*. Every lessee shall make an entry on his books of the
tobacco inspected in his warehouse which may have been in-
spected in some other warehouse; and every lessee shall keep a
separate list for each county of the number of hogsheads of
tobacco inspected in his warehouse, and report the same to the
General Assembly at each regular session thereof.

540*. No tobacco shall be passed or accounted lawful tobacco
unless the same be packed in hogsheads not exceeding fifty
inches in the length of the staves and eighty inches in the whole
diameter within the staves across the head and bilge; and the
owner of tobacco packed in any hogshead of greater dimen-
sions shall repack the same in hogsheads of the size herein pre-
scribed, at his own expense, before the same shall be passed.

541*. No tobacco the growth of this State, and in the hands
of the planters or their agents, shall be subject to any costs or
expenses for storage or warehouse rent; this not to apply to
tobacco the growth of any other State or the growth of this
State which may have been sold to any purchaser or shipper.

542*. Whenever so large an amount of inspected tobacco
shall have accumulated in any one warehouse as necessarily to
delay the inspections, and all other warehouses are equally full,
the lessee of such warehouse shall, at his cost and charge, re-
move and store out of his warehouse so much of the same as
may be necessary to give room for the uninspected tobacco.

543*. Every hogshead of tobacco that shall remain in any
warehouse, after being sold by the grower, for a longer period
than six months, the lessee of such warehouse may charge the