ART. 48.] INSPECTIONS—TOBACCO. 855

week, for four successive weeks, an advertisement, stating the
name of the warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and net, the num-
ber 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 are unknown
to the inspector; 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 proceeds be accounted for in the first quarterly
return thereafter.

1872, ch. 36, sec. 25.

39. 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 warehouse costs and charges.

Ibid. sec. 26.

40. 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
exceeding forty-six inches across, the head; and the owner, or his
agent, of tobacco packed in any hogshead of greater dimensions,
shall repack the same in hogsheads of the size herein prescribed,
at his own expense, before the same shall be passed.

Ibid sec. 27.

41. Whenever so large an amount of inspected tobacco shall
have accumulated in any one warehouse, as to delay inspec-
tion, and all other warehouses are equally full, the inspector of
such warehouse shall have the right to rent storage for as much
as may be necessary to remove in order to make room for the
inspected tobacco.

Ibid. sec. 28.

42 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 provision not to apply
to tobacco the growth of any other State, or the growth of this
State which may have been sold to any purchaser or shipper.