WM. PINKNEY WHYTE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 897
one-fourth cent per bushel upon all grain weighed
by them, provided, the same shall not amount to more
than two thousand dollars in the aggregate for any
one year for the Weigher General, and the sum of
sixteen hundred dollars for each weigher, it being
intended hereby not to pay said officer in gross more
than two thousand dollars to the Weigher General,
and sixteen hundred dollars to each assistant.
RUB-SECTION 1. The said weighers shall carefully
weigh one bushel in every sixty of wheat, and one
bushel in every one hundred of corn, rye and oats,
for the purpose of ascertaining the average weight
of the cargo or parcel of grain, and that in weighing
grain sold, it shall not be necessary to measure sixty
bushels of wheat, or one hundred bushels of other
grain, before taking a draft for weighing; but it
shall be the privilege of either party, at any stage of
the delivery of the grain, to require that any inter-
mediate draft shall be weighed, and if each party
shall have caused an intermediate draft to be weighed,
the average weight of the two drafts shall be taken
as the accurate weight of the said sixty, or one hun-
dred bushels, as the case may be, and in case only
one of the parties shall require an intermediate draft
to be weighed, then the average of the said interme-
diate draft and the weigher's draft shall be taken as
the weight of said sixty bushels, as the case may be.
SUB-SEC. 2. The term grain used in this article
shall be construed to mean wheat, rye, oats, corn,
buckwheat, and barley, and that the standard weight
of wheat shall be sixty pounds to the bushel; rye
and corn each fifty-six pounds to the bushel, and
oats twenty-six pounds to the bushel: buckwheat
forty-eight pounds to the bushel, and barley forty-
seven pounds to the bushel; and in all contracts here-
after made, a bushel of either of said articles shall
be determined by the said weights respectively, unless
the parties to any such contract shall otherwise ex-
pressly stipulate.
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SUB-SEC. 3. The amount to be so paid under the war- Not to exceed
rant of the Comptroller of the Treasury to the Weigh- the weighing
er General and Weighers, and for any other expenses funti.
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