Chap. 375.—An ACT to Amend Sections 46 and 52, Chapter 87, Code of
1860, as Amended by an Act passed April 20th, 1867, entitled an Act
to Amend Certain Sections of Chapter 87, Code of 1860, and in Rela-
tion to the Inspection of Tobacco, and the 3d Section of said Act passed
as aforesaid.

Approved April 2, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections forty-six and fifty-two of chapter eighty-seven, Code
of eighteen hundred and sixty, as amended by an act passed
April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled an
act to amend certain sections of chapter eighty-seven, of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, and in relation to the in-
spection of tobacco, and the third section of said act passed as
aforesaid, be amended and re-enacted so as, to read as follows:

§ 46. For the duty to the state, and such services by the in-
spectors as are mentioned in the preceding sections, one-half
the amount prescribed therein shall be paid where the hogs-
head, box or cask is of less weight than five hundred pounds,
to be paid by the persons mentioned in said sections. For all
loose tobacco sold at any warehouse, or by inspectors of to-
bacco, the following charges shall be paid, to wit: For any
quantity of loose tobacco, there shall be paid by the owner to
the inspectors eight cents for every hundred pounds, for in-
spector’s fees ; and there shall be paid by the purchaser eight
cents for every hundred pounds for the use of the proprietors :
and no other or further fee or charge shall be made for loose
tobacco sold as aforesaid, but the said fees shall be in full of
all services rendered in respect thereto, including receiving,
unloading, weighing, inspecting and delivery.

§ 52. The inspector at each warehouse shall account for and
pay to the proprietor thereof, on the tenth day of April, tenth
day of July, tenth day of October and tenth day of January in
each year, all money received, or which ought to be received,
by them, to the use of said proprietors, and the proprietors of
every such warehouse shall keep, free of charge to the planter,
an open policy of insurance upon their respective warehouses
sufficient to cover every loss by fire which any planter having
tobacco stored therein may sustain.

§ 3. No inspector of tobacco shall divide his inspection fees
with any person, nor pay to another a bonus to induce tobacco
to be carried to his warehouse, and if any inspector shall vio-
late this provision, or shall demand and receive for his services
any other or greater fees than are allowed by law, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offence may be
fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars,
which fine shall be fixed by the jury. The judges of the county
and corporation courts shall give this act in charge to the grand
juries, in such counties and cities as tobacco inspections may
be held by law; and it shall be the duty of every inspector in
the state to post at not less than five conspicuous places in
their warehouses the charges they are allowed to make for any
and all services they are allowed to charge by law: provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the
inspectors from acting, as is now their custom, as the agents of
planters for the sale of tobacco and collection of proceeds,
when requested so to do by the planter, at such compensation
as may be agreed upon.

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