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INSPECTIONS. [ART. 31.

1872, c 228
Charges for re-
conditioning
and repacking
stayed tobacco.

19. The several inspectors having charge of the tobacco ware-
houses in the city of Baltimore, shall charge for reconditioning and
repacking all stayed tobacco the following prices: For one or two
breaks, one dollar; for full stay, two dollars; to be paid by the
owner or his agents; and for redrawing hogsheads of Maryland and
Ohio tobacco, fifty cents, and for redrawing all other kinds, one
dollar for each hogshead redrawn, to be paid by the owner or his

Outage.

agent; the charge of outage shall be two dollars for every hogs-
head not exceeding eleven hundred pounds, and twelve and a half
cents additional on every hundred pounds over eleven hundred
pounds; to be paid by the shipper of the tobacco or his agent.

1872, c 36, s 21.
Privilege of
owner in regard
to stayed or
condemned
tobacco

20. The owner of any tobacco that may be stayed or condemned,
shall have the privilege of removing the same from the warehouse
free of all costs or charges whatever, either for outage, cooperage
or storage; provided, also, that it shall not be lawful to remove
any stayed tobacco from one warehouse 'to another, except as all
other tobacco is removed.

Id s 22.
Cooperage.

21. All tobacco delivered at any of the warehouses in the city
of Baltimore for inspection, in such condition as to require cooper-
age, shall be properly coopered and taken care of, and the owner or
his agent charged for the same not less than twenty-five cents, or
more than fifty cents for each hogshead thus coopered.

Id s 23
Scrap tobacco.

22. All scrap tobacco, accruing in any of the warehouses in the
city of Baltimore, shall be sold by the inspector to the best ad-
vantage, for the benefit of the tobacco fund, and the proceeds ac-
counted for with all other receipts in returns to the comptroller.

Id s 24.
To advertise
tobacco remain-
ing in ware-
bouse four
years
3. H & J 281.

23, Each inspector shall in the month of April annually, cause
to be inserted in some one of the Baltimore newspapers, once each
week, for 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 in-

If not claimed
to be sold

spector, and if such tobacco shall not be claimed within thirty days
after the termination of the advertisement, the same shall be sold
by the inspector, in such manner as he shall deem best, and the
same be accounted for in the first quarterly return thereafter.

Id s 25
Owner claiming
within one year,
comptroller to
draw warrant.

24. If the owner of any tobacco, sold under the preceding sec-
tion, shall, within one year from the date thereof, satisfy the comp-
troller that the tobacco so sold was his right and property, the comp-
troller shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount of
such sale, after deducting warehouse costs and charges.

Id s 26.
Dimensions of
hogsheads in
which tobacco
of this State to
be packed

25. No tobacco of the growth of this State shall be passed or
accounted lawful tobacco, unless the same be packed in hogsheads,
not exceeding fifty-four inches in the length of the staves, nor ex-
ceeding forty-six inches across the head, and the owner, or his agent,
of tobacco packed in any hogshead of greater dimensions, shall re-