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person, and not by deputy, under a penalty of five hundred dol-
lars, one-half to go to the informer, and the other to the State.

1874, ch. 803.

469. All receipts for grain deposited or stored in any elevator,
or place of storage connected therewith in this State, and known
in trade as elevator receipts, shall henceforth, for all purposes of
sale or other disposition whatsoever, be held to invest and imply
title to such grain in the persons to whom, or to whose order such
receipts shall have been issued, and to vest and imply absolute
title in all subsequent holders to whom such receipts shall have
been passed, by or under any contract or transfer, valid and bona
fide as between the parties thereto.

HAT AND STRAW.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 410. 1864, ch. 339. 1867, ch. 381.

470. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, shall biennially appoint four inspectors of hay and
straw for the city of Baltimore.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec 410.

471. Each of said inspectors shall give bond to the State of
Maryland, in the sum of two thousand dollars, for the true and
faithful performance of the duties of his office.

1861, ch. 35. 1867, ch. 381.

472. All hay and straw brought to the city of Baltimore shall
be weighed at the State hay scales as now established by law, by
one of the inspectors, at the rate of one hundred pounds to the
hundred weight, making a reasonable allowance for the moisture
thereof, as well as for the mud or other substances attached to the
wagon, cart or sled containing the same; this section not to ap-
ply to hay or straw in bales brought to the city by water, rail-
road, wagons, carts or sleds.

1882, ch. 130.

473. The said inspector shall be entitled to demand and receive
for each and every load of hay and straw inspected by him, of