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To The Honorable
The Governor, Senate, and
House of Representatives
of the State of Louisiana

The undersigned, planters and shippers
of Tobacco, and dealers in the article, be leave
most respectfully to represent:

That it is their opinion that
the present mode of inspecting Tobaco at the
port of New Orleans is highly injurious to
their interest and requires to be amended
for reasons which they will now proceed
to show -- According to the laws of your
state the Inspectors are at present bound
to pass judgement upon every Hhd of Toba.
offered for sale in the New Orleans market,
and to class it according to their belief under
one of four qualities, vis: Firsts, 2.d, xst x

During the greater part of the past season
the prices of these different grades have
ranged about as follows: fs-51/2 per lb, nd
41/2, x-31/2 x 1 1/2.Now the expense
upon the Tobo. shipped to New Orleans (inclu-
ding the cost of the casks) are about 172 c
per lbs. so that a X selling ar=t 2 1/2
per the planter but 1c per lb where as
which the Inspector owing to some trifling
fault or blemish, are obligeed as the law
now stands to place in the class of xs
but which are nevertheless better on the
whole than many that are classed as 2.