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 man shall discriminate in the buying, selling, receiving and handling of grain or in the charges made or the service rendered to owners of stored grain, nor shall such warehouseman discriminate in the receiving of grain offered for sale or storage, nor in regard to the persons offering such grain for sale or storage, nor between points or stations except as the marketing factors or transportation costs or grain quality premiums may warrant; provided, that no public warehouseman shall be required to receive for storage any grain which is heating or otherwise out of condition. Storing grain free of charge is hereby prohibited except as prescribed by law. Warehouseman shall post grain prices paid in a conspicuous place in the office or driveway of his place of business.

Approved March 9, 1933.

CHAPTER 5

H. B. No. 297-(Solberg and Lavik.)

TERMINATION PUBLIC GRAIN WAREHOUSE STORAGE CONTRACTS

An Act to amend and re-enact Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Chapter 228, Session Laws of North Dakota for the year 1931.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

That Sections 1, 2 and 3 of Chapter 228 of the Session Laws of North Dakota for the year of 1931 be amended and re-enacted to read as follows:

Paragraph 1, Section 1, Chapter 228, S. L. 1931,-All storage contracts on grain in store at public grain warehouses shall terminate on June 30th of each year. Storage on any or all such grain may be terminated by the owner at any time before the date mentioned herein by the payment of all legal charges and the surrender of the storage receipt, together with a demand for delivery of such grain, or notice to the warehouseman to sell the same. In the absence of a demand for delivery, an order to sell, or a request for the renewal of the storage contract, entered into prior to the expiration of the storage contract, the warehouseman shall, upon the expiration of the storage contract, sell, at the local market price on the close of business on that day, sufficient of said stored grain to satisfy all accrued storage charges thereon and warehouseman's advances upon such storage contract, and shall issue a new storage receipt for the balance of said grain to the owner thereof upon the surrender of the old storage receipt, properly cancelled.

Paragraph 2.-On or before June ist of each year the warehouseman shall notify by mail the person in whose name the grain was stored, of his intention to make such sale, and for this purpose at the time of the issuance of each storage receipt, the postoffice