Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-20

supervision of the inspection of grain,
as required by the law Such chief
inspector must take an oath of Office.
and execute bond to the people of the
state of Missouri in the sum of $50. 600.
conditional that he will pay all dam
ages TO any person or persons who may
be injured by reason of his neglect, re-
fusal or failure to comply with the law
and the rules and regulate of this
act" The deputy chief inspector and
all assistant inspectors must each take
the same oath of Office as does the
chief inspector, and execute bond in
the penal sum OF SO, 900, with like con-
dltions as the bond given by the chief
inspector.
Section A reads thus:
Sec A. The commissioners, as soon after the
passage of this act is practicable shall estab-
lish proper number and standard OF grades for
the inspection of grain. with due regard TO the
prevailing usages of the market of this state
the interests OF both producers and dealers, and
as near as may be TO conform with the standards
of grade adopted by reputed lending markets of
the United States; Provided. no modifica tons
or changes Of grades shall be made or ary new
ones established without public notice being
given OF such contemplated changes, for at least
twenty days prior thereto by publication In
three daily newspapers Zone of which shall be
printed in GERMANY printed in this state: and
provided further, that mixture of old and
new grades, even though designated by the same
name or distinction, shall be permitted while in
store.
The law is lengthy one, but at the
risk of occupying to0 much space,
shall give sections Is to 21 in full, and
advise all who are interested to procure
from Hon. A. A. Lesseuer secretary of
state at jefferson City, No.. a copy of
the full text of the law:
Sec. Is. Upon application OF the owner or con-
signee OF grain stored in public warehouse,
the same being accompanied with evidence that
all charges which may be lien upon such grain,
including charges for inspection, have been
paid, the warehousemen shall issue to the per-
son entitled thereto a warehouse receipt there
for subject TO the order of the owner or con-
signee, which receipt shall bear date correspond
ing with the receipt of the grain into store. and
shall state upon its face the quantity and in
spected grade of the grain, and that the grain
mentioned in ii has been received into store to
be stored away with the grain of the same
grade by inspection received at about the date
of the receipt, and that it is deliverable upon
the return of the receipt properly indorsed by
the person TO whose order ii was issued and
upon the payment of the charges accrued for
storage. All warehouse receipts for grain is
sued from the same warehouse shall be consec-
utively numbered, and no two receipts
bearing the same number shall be is
sued from the same warehouse dur
ing any one year, except in
case of a lost or destroyed receipt, in which
case the new receipt shall bear the same date
and number as the original, and shall be plainly
marked upon its face, duplicate II the grain
for which the receipts are issued was received
from railroad cars the number of each car
shall be stated in the receipt with the amount
each car contained: if by boat barge or other
me Of mob 60. ;
or other means, it shall be so stated; IL having
been bulked from sacks, the manner of its re-
ceipt shall be stated upon the face of such re-
ceipt for grain stored.
SEC. 10. No warehouse receipt shall be issued
except upon actual delivery of grain into store
In the warehouse from which it purports to be
issued, and which is to be represented by the re-
l.ceipt; nor shall any receipt be issued for a
greoee1 quantity of graia than was contained in
the lot stated To hare beeS received; nor shall
more than one receipt be Issued for the same
! lot OF grain except in cases where receipt for
| part Of lot is desired and then the aggregate
/ receipts for particular lot shall cover that
! lot and.~po more In cases where part of
| the grain represented by the receipts is deliy-
cred out OF store and the remainder IL left q
new receipt may be issued for such remainder:
| but such new receipt shall bear the same date
as the original, and shall state on its face that
1t is the balance of receipt of the original num-
ber, and the receipt upon which a part has been
uSllfertO SIhu DC cdnCel6O In th6 Same manner
as If the grain it called for had all been deliv-
cred In case it be desirable to divide one re.
ce1pt into two or more, or in case it be desira-
BILE to consolidate two or more receipts into one
and the warehouseman consents thereto the
original receipt shall be Cancelled the same as IL
the grain had been delivered from store. and
the new receipts shall state on their face that
they are parts Of other receipts, or a consoljda-
tion OF other receipts, as the case NAV he. and
the numbers OF the original receipts shall also
appear upon the new ones issued explaining the
change; but no consolidation of REGENTS of
dates differing more than ten DAYS shall be ner
mitted, and all new receipts issued for old ones
Cancelled as herein provided shall bear the Same
dates as those originally issued, as near as NAV
be-
Sec. H. No warehouseman under this act
shall insert in any receipt issued for grain re-
ceived any language in anywise limiting or
modifying his responsibility or liability as i'm
posed by the laws of this state
Sec lS Upon delivery of grain from store m
on any receipt, such receipt shall be nlainiv
marked across It's face with the word "qan-
celed, with the name of the person cancelfno
the same and shall thereafter be void ara 49,;
not again be put in circulation, nor shall grain
be delivered twice upon the same recent
SEQ H. warehouse receipts for pronertv
stored in warehouses created by this act as
1ereln uescrineo snail be transferable by the In.
oorsement OF the party to whose order sucl a
receipt may be issued, and such indorseTnan,
SHAH be deemed valid transfer of the property
represented by such receipt, and may be made
either In blank or to the order of another
Sec. 20 Any warehouseman of any npbIic
warehouse created by this act emplove in s,,cI,
warehouse, or owner or manager conbac,aa
with the same who shall be guilty of issuinc,
any warehouse receipt for any propertv Mt
actually in store at the time of issuing such re-
ce1pt, or who shall be guilty of issuing any ware
house receipt in any respect fraudulent IN tts
character either as TO its date or the ouan,tt--
quality or inspected grade of such pronertv q,
VINO snail remove any property from store (ex
cept 70 preserve it from fire or other sudden dar-
ger) without the return and cancellation of anv
anu an OUTSTANDING receipts that may have hsan
Issued TO represent such property sfal when
convicted thereof, be gril.y OF felony ana sbaI1
suHeri 10 ADDITION TO other penalties prescrfI,od
py ttls act' Imprisonment IN the penitentiarv
Ior not less than one nor more than ten years
oee. ~l' Upon the return OF any warehouse re-
celpt issued by persons in charge of warehouses
created 0y this act, and the demand for the -
ESepy 81 property represented BIZ such receint
euly hiorsed, df not presented by original
holder accompanied by the tender of All ,,yo-
enArees upon the property represented. snch
property shall be Immediately delfverah,o =.
the holder of such receipt and II sba1I -. ~
suo1ea to further charges for storage after AZ
nand Tor such delivery shall have been nad<
ana oelyer'es shall be made by the warehouse.
.,ten u uis ofoer IN which such receipts are pre-
etHN eeA4iotia ioF uSilVer1eS made.
now, what | woeld Ike to know is
onls' just waat are the limits and
bounds OF 'paternalism?" Where does
II oegln and where dees 1t end? If this
sne democratic law of the democratic
ssate OF Missouri. Is not paternalis tic in
us nature and effects, would the fact
ina. the state stood ally, with state
bank, to loan moaev upon the bonded
warehouse receipts. render the whole
system obnoxious to the charge of
paternalism?' And if yes. why sos
And If no, why may not she whole peo-
pie, as a government, lca1 money upon
sne absolute security of state bonded
warehouse receipts. George c. Ward,
IN Topeka Kan Advocate.
Since preparing the foregoing matter
Tor the Advocate fhare hoe ror,,a ,,n1a,