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11. In case of the insolvency of any agent or factor, the owner
of the goods, wares or merchandise so pledged and redeemed as
provided in the last preceding section, shall be held to have dis-
charged pro tanto the debt due by him to the estate of such in-
solvent.

12. No consignment of agricultural productions whatever, by
the grower or producer or other owner, to any commission mer-
chant, factor, agent or other bailee or consignee for the pur-
pose of sale for the use and benefit of such grower, producer or
other owner, shall be deemed or taken to vest in such commis-
sion merchant, agent, factor or other bailee or consignee, any
other title or right to such articles consigned than the special
right or title to sell and deliver the same to a fair and bona fide
purchaser for a valuable consideration.

13. Nothing contained in this article shall deprive any princi-
pal or owner of goods, wares or merchandise of any remedy at
law or ia equity, which he might have against his agent or factor
on any matter or contract between them, or for the violation of
any engagement, duty or debt, for which such agent or factor
has heretofore been liable at law and in equity, subject, never-
theless, to the right of such agent or factor to be allowed the
benefit of any payments of any debt or damages received and
paid from and on such contracts as aforesaid by any other person
or body corporate.

14. Every mortgage, pledge, deposit or other disposal by said
commission merchant, factor, agent, bailee or consignee of such
agricultural productions thus consigned for sale alone, unless
with the consent of the grower, producer or other owner, ex-
pressly given, shall be null and void, and no title to said articles
or any of them shall pass to the person receiving the same, but
the title thereto shall remain in the grower, producer or other
consignor thereof as if no such mortgage, pledge, deposit or other
disposal had been made.

15. Whenever any commission merchant, factor, agent or other
consignee, shall be discharged under the insolvent laws of this
State, no agricultural produce which may have been consigned
to him for sale, and which may- be on hand at the time of his
application and discharge not sold to a Mr and bona fide pur-
chaser for a valuable consideration, shall pass to the trustee of
said insolvent, or be in any wise answerable for his debts, but all
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