Chap. 683.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1842 of the code, as
amended and re-enacted by an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section 1842 of the code of Virginia, in relation to sale by samplers and others
of unclaimed tobacco in warehouses of the city of Richmond, and disposition
of the proceeds, approved March 38, 1890.

Approved March 8, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two of the code, as amended
and re-enacted by an act entitled “an act to amend and re-enact
section one thousand eight hundred and forty-two of the code of
Virginia, in relation to sale by samplers and others of unclaimed
tobacco in warehouses of the city of Richmond, and disposition of
the proceeds,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1842. Sale by samplers and others of unclaimed tobacco in ware-
houses in the city of Richmond, and disposition of the proceeds.
When any tobacco shall have remained in any warehouse in the
city of Richmond undemanded for a term of one year from the time
of its inspection therein, the warehouseman or other person having
the tobacco in charge or entitled to the due thereon, may advertise
in some newspaper published in said city once a week for three suc-
cessive weeks a list of marks, numbers, and weights of such tobacco,
with the names of the persons to whom notes or receipts for it were
given, and if no owner claims said tobacco and pays the accrued
extra storage thereon within sixty days after date of such advertise-
ment, he shall sell, or cause the same to be sold, on account of whom
it may concern. The proceeds of such sale shall be paid into tha
state treasury, after deducting therefrom all dues and fees and the
usual charges for selling. The amounts so paid into the treasury
shall be refunded to the owner of said tobacco on the return to the
person entitled thereon of the notes or receipts issued for the same.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.