ART. 48.] INSPECTIONS—TOBACCO. 851

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 fer-
mentation.

1886, ch. 101, sec. 11 C,

25. The inspector of the warehouse in which the tobacco was
originally inspected, shall pay the amount of any award made in
writing and under seal by any committee of arbitration duly
constituted as hereinbefore "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 said inspector to the comptroller of the treasury in
said inspector's next ensuing report thereafter, and shall be a
voucher for money expended.

1872, ch. 36. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 12.

26. If any inspector shall, upon examination of any hogs-
head of tobacco, have reason to suspect that the same is trash or
false packed, he shall cause the same to be shaken out and re-
packed, 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 con-
taining 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 ex-