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three hundred and seventy-nine and three hundred and eighty
of article four of Code of Public Local Laws, double the damage
with ten per centum added thereto, may be recovered before a
justice of the peace, the Court of Common Pleas, or the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, according as the amount sued for
may correspond with their jurisdiction, the said suits shall be
heard and tried within five days after bringing said suit before
a justice of the peace, and at the first term of the said courts,
and in the Court of Appeals at the first term, if appeal be taken.

17. The term grain used in this article, shall be construed to
mean wheat, rye, oats, corn, buckwheat and barley, and the
standard weight of wheat shall be sixty pounds to the bushel;
rye and corn each, fifty six pounds to the bushel; and oats,
thirty pounds to the bushel; buckwheat, forty-eight pounds to
the bushel; and barley, forty-seven pounds to the bushel; and
in all contracts hereafter 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 expressly stipulate

18. If any grain inspected and weighed or measured as afore-
said, shall be delivered to the purchaser thereof, and such pur-
chaser shall thereupon refuse or neglect forthwith to pay for the
same, according to the terms of said sale, the person to whom
the grain had belonged, or any agent of his, may sue out a writ
of replevin, and seize the grain so sold, or any other property
belonging to such purchaser, and after one day's notice, to be
published in one of the newspapers in the city of Baltimore,
may sell the same for cash at public sale and receive the pro-
ceeds thereof, and if such sale does not produce the amount of
the purchase money due on the original sale, with ten per
centum added thereto, and all costs attending the seizure and
sale, the original purchaser shall be liable for any balance, to
be recovered as any other debt, and the price agreed to be paid
for such grain, shall be a lien on the same into whosoever hand
or possession the same may come, except in the hands of a bona
fide purchaser, without notice, and the commission merchant or
other agent of the former owner, or owners, may have such re-
plevin in the name of such commission merchant, or other