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warehouse free of all costs or charges whatever, either for out-
age, cooperage or storage; provided, however, that it shall not
be lawful to remove any stayed tobacco from one warehouse to
another, except as all other tobacco is removed.

34. All tobacco delivered at any of the warehouses in the
City of Baltimore for inspection, in such condition as to re-
quire cooperage, shall be properly coopered and taken care of,
and the owner, or his agent charged for the same not less than
twenty-five cents nor more than fifty cents for each hogshead
xthus coopered.

35. All scrap tobacco accruing in any of the warehouses
in the City of Baltimore shall be sold by the inspector to the
best advantage, for the benefit of the tobacco fund, and the pro-
ceeds accounted for with all other receipts in returns to the
Comptroller.

36. The 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
whereof 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 ac-
counted for in the first quarterly return thereafter.

37. 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.

38. No tobacco of the growth of this State shall be passed
or accounted lawful tobacco unless the same be packed in hogs-
heads 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 dimen-
sions shall repack the same in hogsheads of the size herein
prescribed, at his own expense before the same shall be passed.

39. Whenever so large an amount of inspected tobacco shall
have accumulated in the warehouses as to delay inspection, the