The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-05-17
Dated April 5, 1856,
mo. 66.1 AN ACT.

W. w. AN AOI.
To prevent and punish fraudulent transac-
actions in tares and weights and other
abuses herein enumerated.
SECTION l.. Be il enacted 5yhe General As
Sembly of tile Stale of Ohio, That any person,
agent or clerk, who shall put up, or shall or
der or procure any other person TO put up
or pack sugar, rice, tobacco, soap, starch
candles, or any goods or articles sold by
weight, and not subject TO inspection by law,
packed in kegs, barrels, terces, casks, boxes,
hogsheads, or any case whatever, shall, in
every instance, first weigh the entire box or
cask, or whatever it may be, and plainly cut
or mark upon the head or most convenient
part thereof, tie exact number and fractions
of pounds it weighs, and when packed or fill
ed shall again ascertain the whole weight and
place the same Immediately above the cut OF
marked tare weights, and subtract the one
from the other, showing the net weights oi
the contents, which calculation shall not be
obliterated while the bulk remains unbro-
ken.
SECTION 2. Any brand, mark or stamp,
put upon any keg, barrel, box, cask, hogs.
head or case by the manufacturer, indicating
the article, its quality, or the manufacturer
name, or either Of them, shall be considered
the manufacturers certified brand, stamp OF
mark, and shall be put thereo on in such man.
ner as TO be identified by the. m anufacturer
or his authorized agent, which shall be sub.
ject to no erasure or oblteraton neither
shall boxlids, keg, barrel, hogsheads, tierce
or cask-heads, be transferred from one 10 an.
other, for the purpose of taking the advantage
OF said brands, stamps or marks, to sell az
inferior article, or repacking take place, put
tiag an inferior article into a superior brand
ed keg, barrel, cask, hogshead, box or case
to accomplish the same design or to mari
or remark, any thing containing pound bulk
so as to hide from view the original manufac
turer's mark, stamp or brand.
SECTION 3. Any person, directly or indi
rectly, haasgre s5ing any of the provision;
herein enumerated, shall, on conviction there
Of in all cases pay to the party aggrieved
double the value Of the difference between
q the actual quantity contained in such keg, bar
rel, ca'k, tierce, box, Eogshead, or in what
ever the same may be contained, and the ne
quantity or weight for which the same may
have betn sold, and for the first ofTense, bt
subject to fine not less than twenty nor more
than sixty dollars, or Imprisonment in the
county Jail not less than thirty nor more thar
sixty days; and for the second offense he shal
be subject TO fine not less than flty nor more
than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment il
the county Jail not less than thirty or more
than ninety days, or both, at the discretion o
the court and for the third offense he shal
be subj 10 a fine not less than two hundreC
nor more than five hundred dollars, or impris
onment in the county Jail not less than ninety
days nor more than six months. The offend
ing parties, in every instance, to pay al
expenses. prosecutions, and costs of court
also damages whatever sustained by the ag
grieved parties, who shall prosecute for the
same.
N. H. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate
April 7, 1856.