ART. 48] DUTIES OF INSPECTORS . 1331

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 reclama-
tion; and no claims on tobacco shipped to any point .in the
United States shall be considered or allowed after the expira-
tion 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.

1888, art. 48, sec. 25. 1886, ch. 101, sec. 11c. 1898, ch. 314.

25. The inspector shall pay the amount of any award made
in writing and under seal by any committee of arbitration duly
constituted, as heretofore 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.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1872, ch. 36, sec. 12. 1886, ch. 101.

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
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 hogs-
head containing said tobacco is constructed of green or unsea-
soned 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.