The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-04-07

The act passed in, the last days OF the
legislative session revising the laws in rela-
ton to tobacco inspections and warehouse
charges Is OF the greatest interest and Inn
portance to all persons producing or hand
ling the staple, and Is here published COM
plete in order that it may be understood IN
its fuu scope and design: ..s.
/. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly,
That chapter s. OF the Code OF Virginia,
edition OF 1878; chapter IA Of the Acts OF
Assembly OF 1S66-'67; chapters IS and 375
OF the Acts OF Assembly OF 1S72-'73; chap
ters 1856, 1856, and 22S Of the Acts Of Assem-
bly, of 1874; and all other acts and parts OF
acts relating to the inspection Of tobacco
and warehouse charges, in force on the first
day OF January, 1877, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
9. Ind be it further enacted, That the
subject OF the samplng and sale OF tobacco
and warehouse charges shall be hereafter
subject to the provisions OF this act-that
is to say: OK.
ESTABLISHMENT or WAREHOUSES;.
3. The several county and corporation
courts may authorize the erection OF to-
bacco warehouses, or may establish the
same, which said warehouses shal be con-
structed, or shall have been constructed, so
as TO keep safely and securely. and guard
against fire and weather, as f"r rs practical
bic, all tobacco stored therein, and shall Mt
all times Sundays excepted) be kept open
and in good repair for receiving, storing,
selling, and delivering tobacco; Provided,
That the owner or owners OF warehouses
shall have the right to close his or their
warehouse at pleasure after publishing such
intention for four weeks in some newspa.
per published in the city or county in
which such warehouse is established; il no
newspaper is published in such county,
then for four successive weeks at the front
door OF the courthouse thereof.
APPOINTMENT OF SAMPLERS.
4. The Governor shall in january or Feb
ruary, 1878, and every fourth year there
after, by and with the advice and consent
OF the Senate, appoint two samplers OF to-
bacco for each public warehouse.
5. Vacancies in the office OF sampler shall
be filled in the same manner that the orlgl-
nal appointment was made, or by the Gov
ernor il the General Assembly is not in ses-
sion.
g. The term OF Office of said samplers
shall commence on the first day Of October
next succeeding such appointment, and con-
tinue for four years, and until their success
sors are qualified. ...-. ..
SAMPLERS BOND. f..
7. The court of any county or corpora
ton wherein there is public warehouse
shall take bond from every person ap-
pointed sampler OF such warehouse. Such
bond shall be in the Tenalty OF ten thousand
dollars. Within thirty days after the exc
cution of any such bond the clerk Of the
court in which it is given shall transmit
CODY to the Auditor OF Public Accounts. II
he fail to do SO, he shall forfeit one hundred
dollars. ..... ..EH. ". 49, -
DEPCTIES-TACANCIES.
8. Each sampler may nominate to the.
Governor deputy, who, ii accepted by
him, after taking the oath required by law,
in case his principal shall be unable to at
tend to his duties, may do and perform the
duties of his principal sampler-the said
principal and his sureties on his official:
bond being responsible for al the acts OF
his deputy. '...[ - ,.,.'.. =.
8. II any sampler of tobacco shall fail to
qualify and give bond according to law
within sixty days after his appointment, his
Office shall be deemed vacant. ta.l
INVENTORIES 3tEJ
10. New samplers appointed ct any such
warehouse shall give to those whom they
succeed a receipt containing the Nos,
marks, and gross tare and net weight OF
every hogshead or cask OF tobacco, which
shall be then at the warehouse. They shall
be thereupon chargeable with the delivery
of such hogsheads and casks OF tobacco, but
in no way accountable for any loss Of weight
or defect OF quality OF said tobacco. which
may have occurred without their fault.
SAMPLING.
II, They shall uncase and break every
hogshead, cask, tierce, or box Of tobacco
brought to be sampled; weigh, sample, mark
or brand the same, as Virginia" or
"Western," according to the facts, and
also with the name of the warehouse, the
tare of the hogshead, cask. tierce, or box,
the quantity OF net tobacco therein, and the
condition thereof. The net weight shall be
ascertained by weighing the hogsheac, cask,
tierce, or box before it Is uncased, and de-
lucting thereirom the weight of the empty
hogshead, cask, tierce, or box The sample
shall not exceed eight pounds weight, and
shall belong to the buyer. . ;>F'' ''"
PORN OF RECEIPT. 2. ,?.e.
., ~, 10. The sampler shall ,thereupon give a
receipt or note for every such hogshead,
cask, ,tierce, or box, il required by the
owner, in the following form, il the tobacco
be good, sound, wellconditioned, and ner-
chantabie: