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Not receive
any gratuity.
Make daily
returns.
Weigher
General to
make returns
Compensat'n
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to any merchant, or in loading any ship or vessel
with grain, except the proper grain that may have
been grown by the said weigher, under the penalty
of two dollars for every bushel so bought or sold,
and upon conviction for the offence lie shall be dis-
missed from Ills office.
SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That if any weigher
shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any
gratuity or reward for anything done by him in pur-
suance hereof, other than what is hereinafter allowed
as his compensation, he shall upon conviction forfeit
the sum of one thousand dollars, and ever after be
incompetent to hold the office of weigher under the
laws of this State.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That each weigher shall
make a daily return to the Weigher General of the
number of bushels of grain weighed by him, and the
Weigher General shall make or cause to be made an
entry of the same in a well bound book, allowing the
number of bushels weighed and measured for each
person, and the said Weigher General shall charge
and receive one-fourth cent per bushel for weighing,
and shall charge one-fourth cent per bushel for
measuring; said one-fourth cent per bushel for
measuring shall be paid by the seller to the meas-
urer, and the first named aforesaid one-fourth cent
per bushel for weighing shall be paid by the pur-
chaser to the Weigher General.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted. That the Weigher Gen-
eral shall make a return on the first day of every
month or within ten days thereafter to the Comp-
troller, verified by affidavit before some Justice of the
Peace, of the number of bushels of. grain weighed,
and the amount of money received therefor, and
shall pay the amount thereof after deducting neces-
sary office rent, and the payment of the wages of not
more than two clerks, at a salary of not more than
six hundred dollars per annum for each, to the Treas-
urer upon the warrant of the Comptroller.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted. That the Treasurer, upon
the warrant of the Comptroller, shall allow and pay
over to the Weigher General and the other weighers
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