If any purchaser or weigher of cotton shall deduct from the true weight of any bale or package thereof any amount whatever, as scalage, with intent to diminish the sum to be paid or credited to the seller, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars.Codes, 1892, § 1296; 1906, § 1370; Hemingway's 1917, § 1106; 1930, § 1135; 1942, § 2372; Laws, 1888, p. 91.
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