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§ 43-19-202. Duties of Proprietor or Deputy

It is the duty of the proprietor or one (1) of the proprietor’s regular deputies to: Inspect the uncasing and breaking of any tobacco for inspection, and examine and classify the tobacco according to law and the proprietor’s or deputy’s oath of office; Break each hogshead for inspection, in at least four (4) different places, […]

§ 43-19-203. Reinspection — Making

Should any planter, or the planter’s agent representing the planter, claim that the sample drawn from the planter’s tobacco by an inspector does not represent fairly the hogshead from which it was taken, the planter may demand and have that hogshead reinspected. The tobacco board of trade, where one exists, shall appoint a committee, consisting […]

§ 43-19-204. Responsibility of Keeper

After the tobacco is inspected, coopered, weighed, and numbered, the warehouse keeper becomes responsible to the planter or owner for the weights and proper keeping of the tobacco.

§ 43-19-102. Proof of Sufficiency of Warehouse Required

Every person opening a warehouse for the inspection and sale of tobacco shall prove to the county clerk by the testimony of two (2) impartial witnesses known to the clerk to be well qualified, from knowledge and experience, that the person is the proprietor of a good and sufficient warehouse, situated so as to be […]

§ 43-19-103. Bond of Tobacco Warehouseman

Such person shall also enter into bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the county mayor, and payable to the state, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), conditioned to keep the warehouse in good condition and repair, so as effectually to protect the tobacco stored in the warehouse, that the […]

§ 43-19-106. Warehouses to Be Floored and Kept in Repair

The proprietor shall fit up the warehouse with plank floors or skids, upon which to place the tobacco, so that the hogsheads may be at least four inches (4″) from the earth. Any proprietor who fails to keep a warehouse in good repair, or to furnish it as in this section provided, shall forfeit two […]