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verified by affidavit before some justice of the peace, of the
number of bushels of grain weighed and inspected, and the
amount of money received therefor, and shall pay the amount
thereof, after deducting necessary office rent, and the payment
of the wages of not more than two clerks, of a salary of not
more than six hundred dollars per annum for each, to the
Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller.

14. The Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller, shall
allow and pay over to the inspector general and the other in-
spectors, one fourth cent per bushel upon all grain inspected
and weighed by them; provided^ the same shall not amount to
more than two thousand dollars in the aggregate for any one
year, for the inspector general, and the sum of sixteen hundred
dollars for each inspector, it being intended hereby not to pay
said officers, in gross, more than two thousand dollars to the
inspector general, and sixteen hundred dollars to each assistant.

15. The said inspector 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 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
intermediate 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 hundred 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 weight of said intermediate
draft, and the inspector's draft shall be taken as the weight of
said sixty, or one hundred bushels, as the case may be; provided,
that nothing herein contained shall require grain to be inspected,
but that it shall be optional with the seller to have his grain
inspected or not, under the law, as he may desire.

16. In case of a refusal of the purchaser to accept grain after
the decision of the inspector general, as provided for in section