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and establishes a penalty of one cent per 

 bushel in default of withholding such delivery 

 for two business-hours, and one cent per bush- 

 el for each day thereafter that such delivery 

 may be delayed. Section twelve provides that 

 each warehouseman of Class A shall, on or 

 before Tuesday morning of each week, cause 

 to be made out and shall keep posted up in 

 the business-office of his warehouse, in a con- 

 spicuous place, a statement of the amount of 

 each kind and grade of grain in store in his 

 warehouse at the close of business on the pre- 

 vious Saturday ; and shall also on each Tues- 

 day morning render a similar statement, made 

 under oath, to the warehouse registrar ap- 

 pointed as provided. He shall also be re- 

 quired to furnish daily to the said registrar 

 a correct statement of the amount of each 

 kind and grade of grain received in such ware- 

 house on the previous day; also the amount 

 of each kind and grade of grain delivered or 

 shipped by such warehouseman during the 

 previous day, and what warehouse receipts 

 have been cancelled upon which the grain has 

 been delivered on such day, giving the number 

 of each receipt, and amount, kind, and grade 

 of grain received and shipped upon each ; also, 

 how much grain, if any, was so delivered or 

 shipped, and the kind and grade of it, for 

 which warehouse receipts had not been issued, 

 and when and how such unreceipted grain was 

 received by him ; the aggregate of such re- 

 ported cancellations and delivery of unreceipt- 

 ed grain, corresponding in amount, kind, and 

 grade with the amount so reported, delivered, 

 or shipped. He shall also, at the same time, 

 report what receipts, if any, have been can- 

 celled and new ones issued in their stead, as 

 herein provided for. Section thirteen estab- 

 lishes the grades of grain. Section fourteen 

 provides for the appointment of a chief grain 

 inspector by the Governor, and the appoint- 

 ment of assistant inspectors by the chief in- 

 spector, subject to the approval of the Board of 

 Commissioners of Kailroads and Warehouses, 

 and the appointment by said board of a ware- 

 house registrar ; and confers upon said board 

 the power to establish rules for inspection and 

 to establish charges therefor. Section fifteen 

 requires each warehouseman to publish in one 

 or more newspapers, during the first week of 

 January, his rates of storage, which may not 

 be increased during the year ; but establishes 

 the maximum charge. Section fifteen srives 

 the warehouseman power, under certain re- 

 strictions, to ship out grain in danger of heat- 

 ing, and provides for the manner in which 

 deliveries shall be made in such cases. Sec- 

 tion seventeen prohibits the mixing of grain 

 of different grades. Section eighteen gives all 

 owners having grain or other property in pub- 

 lic warehouses the right to examine all prop- 

 erty stored in such warehouses, and requires 

 all scales, etc., to be inspected and sealed by 

 the proper officer. Section nineteen prohibits 

 warehouses of Class B from mixing grain of 



different owners, unless the same shall be duly 

 inspected, exceptions being made as to places 

 where there are no legally-appointed inspect- 

 ors. Section twenty provides penalties as to 

 persons who shall unlawfully act as inspectors. 

 Section twenty-one provides that in case any 

 owner or consignee of grain shall be dissatis- 

 fied with the inspection of any lot of grain, or 

 shall, from any cause, desire to receive his 

 property without its passing into store, he 

 shall be at liberty to have the same withheld 

 from going into any public warehouse, by giv- 

 ing notice to the person or corporation in 

 whose possession it may be at the time of giv- 

 ing such notice ; and such grain shall be with- 

 held from going into store, and be delivered to 

 him, subject only to such proper charges as 

 may be a lien upon it prior to such notice, the 

 grain, if in railroad- cars, to be removed there- 

 from by such owner or consignee within twen- 

 ty-four hours after such notice has been given 

 to the railroad company having it in posses- 

 sion : Provided such railroad company place 

 the same in a proper and convenient place for 

 unloading; and any person or corporation re- 

 fusing to allow such owner or consignee to so 

 receive his grain shall be deemed guilty of 

 conversion, and shall be liable to pay such 

 owner or consignee double the value of the 

 property so converted. Notice that such 

 grain is not to be delivered into store may also 

 be given to the proprietor or manager of any 

 warehouse into which it would otherwise have 

 been delivered ; and, if, after such notice, it be 

 taken into store in such warehouse, the pro- 

 prietor or manager of such warehouse shall 

 be liable to the owner of such grain for double 

 its market value. The remaining sections pro- 

 vide against and affix penalties for any com- 

 bination between warehousemen and railroad 

 or other corporations ; for the suing of ware- 

 housemen upon their bonds for the benefit of 

 those injured for any violation of the law ; 

 that transfers by indorsement upon receipts 

 shall be lawful ; requires that goods stored in 

 warehouses classed as C shall be identified by 

 "marks "in the receipts issued; makes the 

 violation of the terms of the act in resptct to 

 the issuing of fraudulent receipts punishable, 

 in addition to other penalties, by imprisonment 

 in the penitentiary; and provides that nothing 

 "in this act shall deprive any person of any 

 common-law remedy now existing." 



An act was passed authorizing the taxation 

 of lands belonging to the Illinois Central Rail- 

 road, on the ground that the company had 

 failed to offer them for sale ^ annually each 

 year after the completion of said road and its 

 branches," as it was required to do in the act 

 of incorporation, which exempted those lands 

 from taxation only on condition such annual 

 offer was made. This act was vetoed by the 

 Governor, because, as he said, the General As- 

 sembly had " undertaken to find the existence 

 of certain facts that materially affect the rights 

 of private persons under what the Supreme 



