XVI

Shipments of Tobacco, inspected within the year, have not
been made to the extent anticipated, whereby a very large
portion of the Tobacco inspected remains in the warehouses,
upon which the outage has not been collected.

This branch of the service requires, in my judgment,
some further legislation.

An Act was passed by the Legislature of 1860, requir-
ing the warehouses to be leased out by Commissioners
appointed by said Act, and otherwise making material
alterations in the inspections. That law remains unrepealed,
and has never, that I am advised of, been declared by a
Judicial Tribunal unconstitutional, yet the law has never
been carried out, and the inspections have been continued
to be made upon the laws enacted prior to the passage of the
Act of 1860. By the Acts under which the inspection is
conducted, the inspected Tobacco may remain in the ware-
houses a full year before storage can be charged upon it,
and much of it so remains.

The handling of this Tobacco, very frequently in the
course of a year, to reach parcels ordered for shipment,,
entails a heavy expense for labor, and causes an actual loss
to the State from the inspection of it.

The Reports of the Inspector General of Grain, since
April, 1862, have shown such meagre receipts from this
source, showing them totally inadequate to pay the Inspec-
tors' salaries, or even a moiety thereof, that I have considered
it unnecessary to encumber the Books of this Office, or the
Tables of this Report, with them.

This is the result of the defects of the laws regulating the
Inspection of Grain.

A proper law upon this subject dispensing with the
inspection, but placing the weighing of all grain necessary
to be weighed, in the hands of the State's officers, would
afford, over and above the cost of weighing, and the salaries
of the officers, a handsome revenue to the State ; whilst but
little, if any, additional expense would be incurred by the
producer or seller for the additional security, afforded them,
by having this duty performed by sworn State's officers.

The receipts from licenses to Auctioneers go directly to