CHAP. 124.—An ACT to amend chapter 11 of Acts of special session
1879, authorizing sale of tobacco on storage, &c.

Approved March 3, 1880.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That chapter
eleven of Acts of special session eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 11. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That when any
tobacco shall have remained in the public or any other ware-
house in the city of Richmond undemanded for a term of three
years from the time of its inspection therein, the inspectors
for said warehouse shall advertise in some newspaper pub-
lished in said city, for three weeks successively, 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 such tobacco and pays the accrued extra storage
thereon within sixty days after date of such advertisement,
they 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
the treasury, after deducting therefrom all 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 in-
spector of the notes or receipts issued for the same.

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