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WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
[ART. 97
ARTICLE XCVII.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
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1. Standards.
2. Keeper of standards.
3. Bond.
4. Inspection; stamp.
5. Inspection and adjustment of
beams, scales, weights and meas-
ures.
6. Books to be kept.
7. Refusal to permit inspection and
adjustment
8. Seizure of false beams, etc.; pen-
alty.
9. Continued use of broken, changed
or condemned weight or meas-
ure; penalty.
10. Compensation of standard keeper.
11. Additional compensation.
12. Disposition of fines and forfeitures.
13. Units of standards of liquid meas-
ure.
14. Units of standards of dry measure.
15. What shall be measured by dry
measure.
16. Measure of quart berry box or
basket
17. Measure of standard box of apples.
18. Measure of barrel of apples, etc.
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19. Measure of barrel of vegetables.
20. What barrels, boxes, etc., must be
branded.
21. Penalty for branding and offering
for sale barrels, etc., of less ca-
pacity than is stamped thereon.
22. Sale of barrels, etc., marked "short
measure."
23. Penalty for offering for sale bar-
rels, etc., of less than standard
measure, except as provided in
section 21.
24. Standard weights for grain, hay.
straw, produce and coal.
25. Charges for freight, measurement
etc.
26. Sale of packages of cotton, woolen
or other dry goods containing a
smaller quantity than stamp in-
dicates, prohibited; penalty.
Agricultural Products.
27. Standard weight of tomatoes; plat-
form scale; appropriation.
28. Weigher; duties; compensation ;
bond. Weighing — how conducted ;
offences and penalty.
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1904, art. 97, sec. 1. 1888, art. 97, sec. 1. 1860, art. 96, sec. 1, 1825, ch. 206.
sec. 1. 1910, ch. 353, sec. 2 (p. 324).
1. The standards for weights and measures in this State, except
as otherwise provided in this article, shall be the same as the standard
of weights and measures of the United States.
Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art 97, sec. 2. 1860, art. 96, sec. 2. 1825, ch. 206,
sec. 2. 1910, ch. 353, sec. 3 (p. 325).
2. The county commissioners of each county shall, on or before the
first day of May in each year, appoint some person or keeper of stand-
ards of weights and measures, who shall safely keep and preserve
the same, and, when required, deliver them to the county commissioners,
or to such persons as they may appoint to receive the same, and who
shall perform the several duties prescribed by this article.
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