8 AGENTS AND FACTORS. [ART. 2.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 3, sec. 15. 1849, ch 293, sec. 2

14. Whenever any commission merchant, factor, agent or
other consignee, shall be discharged under the insolvent laws of
this State, no agricultural produce which may have been con-
signed to him for sale, and which may be on hand at the time of
his application and discharge, not sold to a fair and bona fide pur-
chaser for a valuable consideration, shall pass to the trustee of
said insolvent, or be in anywise answerable for his debts; but all
such agricultural produce so on hand at the time of such appli-
cation and discharge, shall be the property of the grower, pro-
ducer or other owner who shall have consigned the same.

Ibid sec 16. 1849, ch. 293, sec. 3.

15. Nothing contained in the three preceding sections shall in
any manner impair any right of lien which any commission
merchant, factor or agent may have acquired or be entitled to
for advances bona fide made, either in money or goods, to any
each grower, producer or owner, on the faith and security of such
consignment; but such right of lien shall remain as at common
law and mercantile usage.

Ibid. sec. 13 1825, ch. 182, sec. 6.

16. Nothing contained in this article shall deprive any prin-
cipal or owner of goods, wares or merchandise, of any remedy
at law or in equity, which he might have against his agent or
factor on any matter or contract between them, or for the
violation of any engagement, duty or debt, for which such agent
or factor has heretofore been liable at law and in equity, subject,
nevertheless, to the right of such agent or factor to be allowed
the benefit of any payments of any debt or damages received
and paid from and on such contracts as aforesaid, by any other
person or body corporate.