Litchfield enquirer., 1878-05-09
PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF
 CONNL JTICUT.
PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION OF THE GEN
 RRAL ASSEMBLY, 1878.
Published by Authority.] THouse Bill No. 293.

[House Bill No. 293.
 CHAPTER XL.
 An Act relating to Warehousemen and Ware
 house Receipts.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
 resentatives in General Assembly convened:
 Section 1. Any person or persons may estab- fish and maintain public warehouses and may receive on storage into the same any goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, grain, flour, or other commodity and shall issue to the person or persons from whom he or they shall have received. the same, warehouse receipts therefor; provided, however, that no person or persons shall issue any receipt for and goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, grain, flour, or other commodity so received by him or them on stor- age as aforesaid, unless he shall have displayed and shall maintain in a conspicuous manner on the front of the building where said goods or other commodities are stored, the words Pub lie Warehouse"
 Sec. g. No warehouseman or other person shall issue any receipt, acceptance of an order, or other voucher for or upon any goods, wares, merchandise provisions, grain, flour, or other produce or commodity, to any person or per sons purporting to be the owner or owners thereof or entitled to, or claiming the right to
 receive the same unless such goods, wares, mer-
 chandise, provisions, grain, flour, or other con-
 modity shall have been actually received into HIS WdIC1kOtLSC OIId4 OC A4S COAGIOA dG the time of issuing such receipt, acceptance, or | voucher.
 Sec f. No warehOuseman or other person
 shall issue any receipt or other voucher upon any goods, wares, merchandise, grain, flour, or other produce or commodity to any person or 1 persons as securitysfor any money loaned or 1 other indebtedness unless such goods, wares, | merchandise, grain or other produce or con- modity shall be at the time of issuing such re-
 ceipts in the custody of such warehouseman or other person and in his warehouse l Sec. 4. No warehouseman or other person l shall issue any second or duplicate receipt, ac- ceptance or other voucher for or upon any
 goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, grain, l flour or other commodity while any former re- ceipt, acceptance or voucher for or upon any such goods, wares, merchandise, provisions, I flour, grain, or other produce or commodity as aforesaid or any part thereof shall be outstand- | ing and uncanceled, without writing or print l ing in red ink across the face of the same the word duplicate.
 l Sec g. No warehouseman or other person
 shall sell, or incumber, conceal, ship, transfer, | or in any manner remove beyond his immedi- l ate control any goods, wares, merchandise, | grain, flour, or other produce, or Commodity, | for which a receipt shall have been given by him as aforesaid. without the written order or | assent of the person or persons holding such l receipt. Sec. 6. Warehouse receIpts given for any goods, wares merchandise, grain, flour, produce, or other commodity stored or deposited with any warehouseman may be transferred by en- l dorsement thereof and any person to whom the same may be so transferred, shall be deemed and taken to be the owner of the goods, wares | and merchandise therein specified so far as to give validity to any pledge, lien, or transfer, made or createdby any such person or persons, | but no property shall be delivered except on 1 surrender and cancellation of said original re- | ceipt or the indorSement of such delivery there
 on, in case of partial delivery. All warehouse receipts, however which shall have the words mot negotiable" plainly written or stamped on | the face thereof, shall be exempt from the pro- visions of this section.
 f Tee. 2. Any warehouseman or other person who shall wilfully violate any of the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of misde- meanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or | imprisonment net exceeding three years or by | both such fine and imprisonment; and ali and every person or persons aggrieved by the violation of any of the provisions of this
 act may have and maintain an action at law against the person or persons violating any of said provisions to recover all damages immedi- ate or consequential which he or they may have sustained by reason of any such violation
 before any court of competent jurisdiction,
 whether such person shall have been convicted | as herein before provided or not
 Sec. 8. So much of sections five and six of this act as forbids the delivery of property eX- cept on surrender and cancellation of the orig inal receipt or the endorsement of such delivery
 thereon in case of partial delivery shall not ap- ply to property replevied or removed by op- | eration of law
 Approved March 16 1878