INSPECTIONS. 1759

An. Code, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 24 1888, sec. 24. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 11B. 1916, ch. 309, sec. 23.

23. The said committee of arbitration when duly constituted and
appointed shall 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
administer oaths, and to examine witnesses on oath; they shall determine
all questions which may be submitted to them by a majority vote, and shall
assess whatever damages, if any, they may adjudge due by reason of any
false or erroneous inspection, and from their finding or award there shall
be no appeal; all damages 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 upon tobacco which shall have changed by fermentation.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 25. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 11C. 1898, ch. 314.

1916, ch. 309, sec. 24.

24. The inspector shall pay the amount of any award made in writing
and under seal by any committee of arbitration duly constituted, as here-
tofore 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 signed
and sealed by said committee of arbitration, or a majority of them, shall
be returned by the inspector to the Comptroller of the Treasury in the
inspector's next ensuing report thereafter and shall be a voucher for money
expended.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 26. 1888, sec. 26. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 101.

1916, ch. 309, sec. 25.

25. If any inspector upon examination of any hogshead of tobacco
has 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 or his
agent; and if any inspector shall find that the package, cask or hogshead
containing said tobacco is constructed of green or unseasoned timber, it
shall be his duty to uncase said tobacco and furnish a new and dry package,
cask or hogshead for the same at the cost and expense of the owner of said
tobacco or his agent; said cost and expense not to exceed, however, the
sum of one dollar for each package, cask or hogshead so furnished.

1920, ch. 167.

26. In all sales of leaf tobacco, where the same may be packed in
hogsheads or casks and no price is specifically agreed upon between the
seller and buyer, the buyer shall be deemed to have agreed to pay for said
hogshead or cask in which said tobacco may be packed, the sum of three
($3.00) dollars, and the seller shall have the right, in the absence of an