T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

warehouse, the weight, gross, tare and net, the
number and the person in whose name any tobacco
may have been inspected, which has remained in
his warehouse for the space of four years, the own-
ers whereof are unknown to the lessee.

CHAP. 248.

SEC. 43. If the owner of such tobacco shall not
apply for the same within six months from the
date of such advertisement, and pay the warehouse
charges due thereon, and the cost of advertisement,
and the lessee shall sell the same at public sale,
and account for the proceeds with the Comptrol-
ler, and upon his warrant pay the same to the
treasurer, to be credited to the tobacco fund.

Tobacco un-
called for,
may he sold.

SEC. 44. If the owner of any tobacco sold under
the preceding section shall, within one year from
the sale thereof, satisfy the Comptroller that the
tobacco so sold was his right and property, the
Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the trea-
surer for the principal sum which shall have been
received for such tobacco and paid into the treasury,
deducting therefrom the warehouse charges and
costs of advertising.

Owner may
receive nett
proceeds of
sale.

SEC. 45. Every lessee shall make an entry on
his books, of the tobacco inspected in his ware-
house, which may have been inspected at some other
warehouse, and every lessee shall keep a separate
list for each county, of the number of hogsheads
of tobacco inspected in his warehouse, and report
the same to the General Assembly at each regular
session thereof.

Report to the
General As-
sembly.

SEC. 46. No tobacco shall be passed or accounted
lawful tobacco, unless the same shall be packed in
hogsheads, not exceeding fifty inches in the length
of the staves and eighty inches in the whole diame-
ter, within the staves across the head and bilge,
and the owner 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.

Size of hogs-
heads.

SEC. 47. No tobacco, the growth, of this State and
in the hands of the planters or their agents, shall
be subject to any costs or expenses for storage or
warehouse rent; this 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.

Storage.