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To be sold.
Owner may
recover pro-
ceeds.
Lawful
tobacco.
Size of hogs-
head.
Accumulat'n
of tobacco.
Storage
Not subject
to storage.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
four successive weeks, an advertisement, stating the
name of the warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and
net, the number and the name, or initials of any
hogshead of tobacco that may have been inspected,
which has remained in the warehouse for the space
of four years, and the owners thereof being unknown
to the Inspector, and if such tobacco shall not he
claimed within thirty days after the termination of
the advertisement, the same shall be sold by the In-
spector, in such manner as he shall deem Lest, and
the same be accounted for in the first quarterly
return thereafter.
SEC. 25. That if the owner of any tobacco, sold
under the preceding section, shall, within one year
from the date 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 amount of such sale, after deducting ware-
house costs and charges.
SEC. 26. That no tobacco of the growth of this
State shall be passed or accounted lawful tobacco,
unless the same he packed in hogsheads, not exceed-
ing fifty-four inches in the length of the staves, nor
exceeding forty-six inches across the head, and the
owner, or his agent, of tobacco packed in any hogs-
head of greater dimensions, shall repack the same
in hogsheads of the size herein prescribed, at his
own expense, before the same shall be passed.
SEC. 27. That whenever so large an amount of
inspected tobacco shall have accumulated in any one
warehouse, as to delay the inspections, and all other
warehouses are equally full, the Inspector of such
warehouse shall have the rig-lit to rent storage for as
much as may be necessary to remove in order to
make room for the inspected tobacco.
SEC. 28. That no tobacco of the growth of this
State, and in the hands of the planters, or their
agents, shall be subject to any costs or charges for
storage or warehouse rent; this not to apply to to-
bacco the growth of any other State, or the growth
of this State which may have been sold to any pur-
chaser or shipper.
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