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or label, bearing the name of the warehouse, the seller, 

 the warehouse number, the gross weight, date of inspec- 

 tion and the name of the inspector. This tag is affixed 

 by tape and sealing wax, to prevent tampering. If a 

 hogshead is resampled, it must also be reweighed. The 

 tag bears the date of original inspection, and later and 

 last date of reinspection, with the new gross weight. 

 The tobacco "note," or manifest, as it is called, also 

 shows the date of inspection or reinspection, of old and 

 new weights, and passes from buyer to seller without 

 endorsement or further marks of identity. 



This note bears also the name of warehouse, plan- 

 ter's private marks and numbers, and is signed by the 

 proprietor. When required by the buyer, the private 

 initial or brand must be interpreted, revealing the 

 packer if not the owner. This tobacco manifest, or 

 receipt, is negotiable, representing, as it does, an indi- 

 vidual and identified package of tobacco. When the 

 tobacco "note" is taken by the warehouse as a receipt 

 for the delivery of the tobacco, the receiver or owner is 

 required to properly endorse same. Sometimes tobacco 

 is placed in storage, the owner not wishing, for the time 

 being, any inspection. The warehouse issues a special 

 receipt for this, inserting in it the description of each 

 package in the way of private marks and weight, and 

 also the name of the owner, the paper bearing the state- 

 ment that the tobacco is delivered to the holder of the 

 note or his order through proper endorsement. The ware- 

 house charges are $1.50 per hogshead from the date of 

 inspection to the end of the first four months. Subse- 

 quent to this, storage is charged at the rate of ten cents 

 per month. After two years' storage has accumulated, 

 the tobacco is liable to be sold for storage charges, but is 

 rarely ever thus disposed of under three or four years. 



Storage and Auction Fees. In addition to the in- 

 spection fee of 25 cents for each package, the owner of 

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