The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-03-03
AN ACT to provide for the Inspection of
Salt manufactured in this Commonwealth.

House of Representatives., IN General Court
assembled, and By the authority Of the same,
That there shall be three Inspectors General
of Salt manufactured in this Commonwealth,
who shall be we'll skilled in the manufacture,
and have competent knowledge of the quality
thereof one for the county of Barnstable and
Dukes county; one for the county of Bristol
and one for the remaining counties of this Com
monwealth to be appointed by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Council, and
to be by them removable at pleasure, and who,
before they shall enter upon the discharge OF
their duties, shall give bond with sufficient sure
ties to the Treasurer Of the Commonwealth, in
the penal sum of two thousand dollars, for the
faithful discharge of their duties, and shall also
be sworn faithfully to perform the same. And
such Inspectors General shall have power when
SO qualified, to appoint and shall appoint within
their respective limits, and removable at their
pleasure, number of deputies sufficient in their
judgment to execute tho provisions of this Act,
for whom they shall be respectively answsrable,
and shall take bonds from them with sufficient
surety or sureties, and they shall also be sworn
to the faithful discharge of their duties And
the Inspector shall receive of the manufacturer
of salt for his services each and every time ap-
plication may be made TO him to inspect guam
tity of salt: twenty cents upon each ald every
! ten thousand superficial feet of salt works with
no covers, in which he may so Inspect, and at
the same rate for a greater or smaller number
of feet. Pr0etded, heweuer, that 1'hsn the salt
,,h in wlIiI.iI sH id -~i - 80 h~ inspected, arc
Or me Brush-work construction, the Inspector
shall be entitled to receive of the manufacturer
of salt for his services each and every time APP
plication NAV be made to him to inspect a guam
tity of salt, twenty cents for each and every one
thousand superficial feet of salt watts in which
J he may inspect said salt and at the same rate
Tor greater or smaller number of feet And
the Inspectors General shall be entitled to re-
csive Of their respective deputies, twelve per
centum of all sums which they may receive
under the provisions of this Act and no more.
Procided, hoaoe0er, that the several Inspectors
General shall appoint one or more deputy in
spectors in each and every town in this Com
monwealth where any salt works are located,
and in case no person is found willing in any
town to accept the office, then the said Inspec-
tor General shall make his appointment for
such destitute town, in one of the nearest ad-
joining towns.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted, That when
any manufacturer shall be prepared to remove
any salt from his vat or watts, he shall, before
removing the same, apply to the inspector with
In whose limits the salt works may be situated,
to inspect the same, and said inspector shall
proceed before such salt shall be removed from
ment, it be necessary, in order to ascertain its
quality, he shall cause the impure brine which
may be in the vat or watts with the salt to be in
spected, to be drawn off, and after having caus-
ed the salt in said vat or watts to be broken up,
he shall cause said vat or watts to be supplied
with a sufficient quantity of new brine to purify
said salt and enable him to ascertain the quality
thereof; and said new brine shall remain in said
vat or watts not loss than twenty four hours, and
If, after this process, the inspector shall approve
the quality of the salt inspected he shall
forthwith give to the manufacturer permit to
remove the said salt, which permit shall be
written or printed. And if any person or per-
sons shall take or cause to be taken away any
salt from any salt works within this Common
wealth, which shall not have been inspected in
the manner prescribed by this act, or shall, if
the weather be suitable for that purpose, neg
lect, for the space of forty-eight hours after it
s ssn fs Re R66sg Sc of an psV for each
and every offence, a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars, nor less than fifteen dollars Prouided,
that no inspector shall inspect any salt of which
he is the sole or part owner.
Sec. 8. Be 1t further enacted, That if anv
inspector as aforesaid shall, upon application
made for the inspection of any salt within his
prescribed limits, unreasonably refuse, neglect
or delay, to proceed to such inspection for the
space of :hrec hours after application made to
him, the inspector so refusing, neglecting, or
delaying to make snch inspection, shall, for each
offence, forfeit ten dollars
SEC. A. Be 1t further enacted That the pen
alties provided in this Act may be recovered by
action of debt in any Court proper to try the
same, for the use of the complainant
SEC. 5. Be 1t further enacted, That this
Act shall not have force or effect until from and
after the twentieth day of February, eighteen
hundred and thirty.
Approved by the Governor, Feb. 16, $780,
AN ACT in addition to An Act entitled
San Act to prevent fraud and deception
in the Packing of Picked Fish, and to
regulate the size and quality of the casks
and the sale and expectation thereof. |
within and from this Commonwealth, and
to repeal all laws heretofore made on this |
subject"
Be enacted by The Senate and House of
Representatives., IN General Court assembled. I
and by the authority of the same, That from and
after the passage of this Act, the Inspector Cen |
era, or his Deputies, shall be paid for each and (
every barrel of Picked Fish, which he or thew
may inspect and brand, the sum of nine cents. |
and for every half barrel of Picked Fish. so !
inspected and branded, the sum of six cents. /
exclusive Of cooperage; and the Inspector Gen
eral shall be entitled to receive from his Depu |
ties, respectively, one cent, and no more, for |
each barrel, and one half cent for each half
barrel Of Picked Fish which said Deputies NAV
inspect and brand, any thing in the Act to which !
this is in addition, or in the Act passed February
twenty sixth, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty five, regulating
certain fees of the said Inspector and Deputies,
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved bV the GoVernor Feb "a Iaon
AN ACT concerning the Taxation of Costs.
SEC. 1. Be IL enacted Jy the Senate and |
House of Representatives., in Central Court
assembled, and by The authority of The same. |
That in any case now pending, or which NAV
be pending, in the Supreme Judicial Cont. or /
Court Of Common Pleas, in which final iudg. |
ment shall be rendered. and the PREVAILING par. |
ty shall by law be entitled to costs, he nav