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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

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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.

How gram
weighed.

Sub-Sec. 2. 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 that in weighing grain
sold, it shall not be necessary to measure sixty bushels
of wheat, or one hundred bushels of other grain, be-
fore 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 accu-
rate weight of the said sixty, or one hundred bushels,
as the case may be, and in case only one of the par-
ties 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

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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.

Penalty for
refusing to
accept gram
sold by sample.

Sub-Sec. 3. In case of the refusal of the purchaser
to accept grain after the decision of the inspector-
general, as provided for in section 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, ac-
cording as the amount sued for may correspond with
their jurisdiction, that the said suits shall be heard