CHAP. 161.—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 3, 1890.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section one thousand eight hundred and forty-two
of the code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

§1842. Sale by samplers and others of unclaimed to-
bacco in warehouses in the city of Richmond, and dispo-
sition of the proceeds.—When any tobacco shall have
smained in any warehouse in the city of Richmond un-
emanded for a term of three years from the time of its
ispection therein, the warehouseman or other person
aving the tobacco in charge, or entitled to the dues
hereon, may advertise in some newspaper published in
aid city, once a week for three successive weeks, a list of
iarks, numbers, and weights of such tobacco, with the
ames of the persons to whom notes or receipts for it were
iven, and 1f no owner claims said tobacco and pays the
ccrued extra storage thereon within sixty days after date
{ such advertisement, he shall sell or cause the same to
+ sold on account of whom it may concern. The pro-
weds of such sale shall be paid into the state treasury,
fter deducting therefrom all dues and fees, and the usual
‘harges for selling. The amounts so paid into the treas-
rv shall be refunded to the owner of said tobacco on the
eturn to the person entitled thereto of the notes or re-
‘ipts issued for the same. |
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.