Chap. 499.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1792 of the code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to the issue of licensed warehouse and other licensed stor-
age receipts, and to provide penalties in respect thereto.

Approved February 27, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seventeen hundred and ninety-two of the code of Virginia be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1792. When receipts not to be issued; duplicate receipts.—No
person shall issue any such licensed warehouse or other licensed
storage receipt unless he be the keeper of a regularly licensed ware-
house or other licensed place of storage in this state for goods, wares,
merchandise, cotton, grain, flour, tobacco, lumber, iron, or other
commodity stored with such person, and shall have duly paid to the
commonwealth the tax for such license, and, unless the property
therein mentioned shall be actually in store or on his premises and
under his control at the time of issuing such receipt, nor shall a
second or duplicate receipt for any property be issued while a
former receipt for such property, or any part thereof, is outstanding
and uncancelled without having written or stamped in plain letters
across the face of such second or duplicate receipt the word “ dupli-
cate ;” and the said duplicate sball express on its face the reason
for the issuance of the same, stating whether the original receipt
was lost, burnt, or stolen, and the person to whom said duplicate
receipt is issued, shall give to the warehouse issuing the same, a bond
in the penalty of double the value of the article for which said original
receipt was given; and it shall be the duty of such person keeping
such licensed warehouse or licensed place of storage, to cause to be
posted prominently over the door of his place of business a sign indi-
cating that such warehouse or place of storage is duly licensed ; and
such person shall also cause to be written or stamped in plain let-
ters upon the bill-heads and envelopes used by him in said business
words indicating that the warehouse or place of storage kept by him
is duly licensed. Any person violating the provisions of this act
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction fined
not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for
each offence.

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