duty it shall be to visit daily the elevators and railroad tracks, supervising all inspections, with a view to securing uniform inspection of grain. The chief inspector shall be authorized to recommend to the governor a suitable person as supervising weighmaster in each city, town or place in the state where one or more public warehouses may be doing business under the law, whose duty it shall be to visit daily the elevators and tracks, supervising all weighmasters, inspecting scales, and the loading and unloading of grain, with a view to securing correct weights on all grain weighed by the department. The chief inspector shall be authorized to recommend to the governor suitable and qualified persons as assistant inspectors or assistant weighmasters, to be acting inspectors or weighmasters, in the absence of the chief inspector, who shall not be interested in any public or private grain warehouses, or in the buying or selling of grain, either directly or indirectly, and also such other employés as may be necessary to properly conduct the business of his office; and the governor shall be authorized to make such appointments, if found by him to be necessary. [Laws 1903, ch. 325, §2.]

SEC. 240. All supervising inspectors, assistant inspectors and assistant weighmasters shall be under the supervision of the chief inspector, to whom they shall report in detail all the services performed by them at the close of each working-day; such officers to take the same oath as the chief inspector, and each to execute a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, with like conditions and to be approved in like manner as provided for the bond of the chief inspector. Suit may be brought upon the bonds of any of the bonded officers under this act in any court having jurisdiction thereof, in the county where the defendant resides, for the use of any person injured by the act of such officer. [Id., §3.]

SEC. 241. The chief inspector shall, before the first day of September of each year, establish a grade for all kinds of grain

bought or handled in the state, which shall be known as " Kansas grades"; and to facilitate this object he shall notify the boards of trade in the state so that they may send representatives to consult and counsel with the chief inspector in establishing the grades; and the grades so established shall be published in three daily papers in the state, each day for the period of one week. [G. S. 1901, § 3229.]*

SEC. 242. It shall be the duty of the chief inspector of grain to furnish any public elevator or warehouse in this state stand

* The Legislature of 1903 enacted the following:

"SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the governor to appoint three suitable persons to be known as the Grain Inspection Commission,' of which not more than two shall be members of the dominant party, who shall, on or before the 1st day of August of each year, establish a grade for all kinds of grain bought or handled in the state, which shall be known as 'Kansas grades.' The Grain Inspection Commission shall elect one of its members clerk, whose duty it shall be to record its work. keep its books and other items of record. The grain inspection commissioners so appointed shall publish a notice in at least two agricultural and one grain-trade or milling journal of the state, for three consecutive insertions, of their intention to meet for the purpose indicated in this act, so that interested persons or associations may send representatives to consult and counsel with the commissioners appointed to establish the grades; and the grades so established shall be published in two agricultural and one grain-trade paper of the state for three consecutive insertions. The compensation of each grain inspection commissioner shall be one hundred dollars per annum, and mileage to and from commissioners' place of meeting, while occupied with official duties. The term of office of above-mentioned commission shall be two years." [Laws 1903, ch. 326. § 1.]

It is difficult to perceive how this act can be valid. The title is, "An Act to amend section 7 of chapter 138 of the Session Laws of 1897, concerning the inspection of grain; " and the section opens: "That section 7 of chapter 138 of the Session Laws of 1897 be amended so as to read as follows." But section 7 of chapter 138 of the Session Laws of 1897 provides for nothing but the grading of grain, which, it is true, the amended section includes. The provision as to the appointment of a grain inspector, amended in this act to "Grain Inspection Commission," is in section 2 of chapter 138 of the Session Laws of 1897. The repealing section of the act of 1903 repeals only section 7 of chapter 138 of the Session Laws of 1897, thus putting the matter beyond doubt that it was the intention to amend only section 7. I have therefore retained the original text, and put this amendment in a note, so that every reader may judge for himself.-EDITOR.

ard samples of the several grades as established by official inspection, when requested so to do by the proprietor, lessee or manager thereof, at the actual cost of such samples. [Id., $ 3230.]

SEC. 243. For inspecting and sampling each car-load, forty cents; for inspecting out of elevators, thirty-five cents per car; for weighing, fifty cents per car; for reinspecting, where the former inspection and grade are sustained, fifty cents per car; and in all cases where extra samples of car lots of grain inspected are demanded, the charge for each sample shall be twenty-five cents. [Laws 1903, ch. 325, § 4.]

SEC. 244. The charge for inspection and weighing of grain shall be and constitute a lien on the grain so inspected or weighed, and whenever such grain is in transit the said charges shall be treated as advanced charges, shall be collected and paid by the common carrier in whose possession the same is at the time of such inspection or weighing. [G. S. 1901, § 3232.]

SEC. 245. The chief inspector of grain shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, file with the auditor of state a full and detailed report, under oath, of the work done in his department for the preceding month, setting forth the number of cars of grain inspected and weighed, and by whom, the number of samples furnished, the amount of revenue collected by himself and the assistant inspectors and weighmasters; and the chief inspector shall, at the time of filing his said report with the auditor of state, pay into the state treasury all money received as fees for the inspecting, weighing or sampling of grain for the preceding month, which money shall be credited to the general fund. [Id., § 3233.]

SEC. 246. In every city or at every railroad terminal in the state where more than one assistant inspector is employed, the chief inspector shall designate one of the assistant inspectors, to be known as first assistant inspector, whose duty it shall be to make and compile reports of his respective jurisdiction, and

who shall collect the reports of the other assistants and forward the same to the chief inspector. The chief inspector shall keep his office and place of business in the city of Kansas City, Kan., and shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, payable monthly, and shall be allowed all actual and necessary traveling expenses paid in cash while attending to official duties. Each supervising inspector shall receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month; and each supervising weighmaster a salary of eighty-five dollars per month; and each assistant inspector a salary of eighty-five dollars per month; and each weighmaster who is not an inspector, a salary of seventy-five dollars per month; and the employés known in said department as helpers shall receive a salary of sixty dollars per month. The chief inspector shall recommend to the governor, as office force, one chief clerk, who shall have a salary of one hundred dollars per month; one person for stenographer and bookkeeper, whose salary shall be nine hundred dollars per year; and one office clerk, whose salary shall be seven hundred twenty dollars per year; one collecter and messenger, whose salary shall be nine hundred dollars per year; such office force to hold at the pleasure of the chief inspector, and to be appointed by the governor on his recommendation. All the salaries provided for in this section shall be paid monthly on verified vouchers approved by the chief inspector: Provided, That if at any place where state inspection has been or may be established the total revenue is less than the salary of an assistant inspector, the chief inspector may abolish such branch of the service, or at his discretion arrange with the officer in charge to accept as full compensation for his services an amount equal to the whole revenue obtained at such place. [Laws 1903, ch. 325, § 5.]

SEC. 247. Any duly authorized chief inspector, assistant inspector or weighmaster of grain under this act who shall be guilty of neglect of duty, or who shall knowingly or carelessly inspect, grade or weigh any grain improperly, or who shall ac

cept any money or other valuable consideration, directly or indirectly, for any neglect of duty as such grain inspector, assistant inspector, or weighmaster, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in the sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than six months nor more than twelve months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and upon conviction of any such offense, such chief inspector, assistant inspector or weighmaster shall forfeit his office. [G. S. 1901, § 3235.]

SEC. 248. The inspection or weighing of grain in this state, whether into or out of warehouses or elevators, or in cars, barges, wagons, or sacks, arriving at or shipped from points where grain inspection is established, must be performed by such persons as may be duly appointed and qualified according to law, and any person who shall act as inspector or weigher of grain who has not been thus first appointed and qualified shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Laws 1903, ch. 325, § 6.]

SEC. 249. The chief inspector and assistants and officers of the grain-inspection department shall have exclusive control of the weighing and inspecting of grain in all public warehouses and in all places where grain is inspected or weighed under this act; the action and certificate of such officers shall be conclusive to all parties interested. [Id., § 7.]

SEC. 250. Any person, or any representative of a firm, trust, corporation or association, who shall bribe or offer to bribe any of the officers created under this act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding seven years. [G. S. 1901, §3238.]

SEC. 251. The decision of any of the assistant inspectors as to the grade of grain shall be final and binding on all parties, unless an appeal is taken from such decision as hereinafter provided. [Id., § 3239.]

SEC. 252. In case any owner, consignee or shipper of grain,