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one-half cent per bushel for all other grain, one-half to be paid
by the purchaser and the other half by the seller.
388. The inspector general shall make a return on the first
day of every month to the Comptroller, verified by affidavit, of
the number of bushels of wheat weighed and inspected, and the
number of bushels of other grain inspected, and the entire amount
of money received for inspecting and weighing, and shall pay
the amount thereof to the Treasurer upon the warrant of the
Comptroller.
889. The Treasurer, upon the warrant of the Comptroller,
shall allow and pay over to the inspector general and each of
the other inspectors, one-half cent per bushel upon all wheat
inspected and weighed by them, and one-quarter of a cent per
bushel upon all other grain so inspected; Provided, the same shall
not amount to more than twenty-five hundred dollars in the
aggregate for any one year for the inspector general, and the
sum of two thousand dollars for each other inspector, it being
intended hereby not to pay said officers in gross more than
"twenty-five hundred dollars to the inspector general and two
thousand dollars to each assistant.
390. If the inspector general or any assistant inspector shall
fail or refuse to make the report and pay over the money re-
quired of him by this article, or shall make a false report, on
complaint of the Comptroller to the Governor, (and it is hereby
made his duty to complain whenever either of said officers fail to
do their duty,) the Governor shall forthwith suspend him from
office, and he shall remain suspended until he complies with the
provisions of said sections; and if the inspector general shall fail
to comply for two weeks after the time provided by this article,
he shall be dismissed from office.
391. If either the inspector general or any assistant inspector
shall make a false return, either in the amount of inspections or
•money received and paid over, he shall be liable on his bond,
and be ever afterwards incapable of holding any office under the
inspection laws of this State.
392. The Comptroller shall, whenever the inspector general
shall fail to make the return to the Treasurer hereinbefore re-
quired, send a copy of his bond to the State's Attorney for the
city of Baltimore, to be put in suit, whose duty it shall be to
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