The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-08-14
$40. A sealer of weights and measure

may be appointed in every city and incor.
porated town in this State, by the Council
thereof, and shall hold his office during
their pleasure, and said council may obtain
from the sealers Of weights and measures
OF their respective counties snch standards
fweights and measures as they may deem
necessary for their respective cities or in
corporated towns; aud in case the Board
OF Supervisors of any County IN which any
city or town may be situated shall have
not obtained such standards, then said
Council may obtain them from the State
superintendent of weights aud measures.
5 20. 1t shall be the duty Of each sea!cr
in cities and Incorporated towns to take
charge and provide for the safe keeping of
the town or city standards, and to sec that
the weights, measures and all apparatus
used for determining the quantity Of CON-
modites used throughout the town or city
which shall be brought to him for that pur.
pose, agree with those standards in his
possession.
S2l. All expenses directly incurred in
furnishing the several counties, cities and
incorporated towns as provided in this
Act, with standards or in comparing those
that may be in their possession, shall be
borne by the respective counties, cities
and incorporated towns for which such eX-
penses shall have been incurred.
%. The State Superintendent Of
weights and measures shall cause to be
impressed upon all standards of weights
aud measures furnished by him in accord
ancc with the provisions Of this Act, the
word Iowa" and such other device as he
shall direct for the particular county, city
or Incorporated town, and the county seal.
ers shall see that in addition to the above
device, there is impressed on the town and
city standards, such other device as the
Board Of Supervisors shall direct for the
several cities and Incorporated towns.
s 23. Each seaIer shall be entitled to
receive for his services at and after the
following rates: For selling and marking
every beam, ten cents. Tor sealing and
marking measures Of extension at the rate
of ten cents per yard, not to exceed fifty
cents for one measure. For sealing and
marking every weight, five cents. For
scaling and marking liquid and dry nlea-
sures, five cents for each measure. lie
shall also be entitled to a reasonable com.
pensation for making weights and mea-
sures conform to the standards in his pos
session.
S "a. Whenever the State Superntend
ent of weights and measures shall resign,
b. removed from office, or remove from
Iowa City, or whenever any city, county
or Incorporated town sealer shall resign.
be removed from office or remove from
the city, county or town in which he shall
have been appointed or elected, it shall be
the duty Of the person so resigning, remov.
ed, or removing, to deliver to his successor
in office all the standard beams, weights I
and measures in his possession.
%. In case Of the death Of any such
,eiItr Of weights and measures, his repre-.
shall, in like manner deliver to |
his successor in Office such beams, weights |
and measures.
s 26. In case of refusal or neglect to
deliver such standards entire and complete, |
the successor in Office may maintain an
action against the person or persons so
refusing CT neglecting, and recover for the
use of such county, city or incorporated
town. double the value of such standards
as shall not have been delivered. And in
every such action, IN which judgment shall
be rendered for the plaintiff, he shall re-
cover double costs.
s q. If any person or persons shall
hereafter use any weights, measures, beams,
or other apparatus for determining guam
tity of commodities, which shall not be
conformable to the standards of this State,
N any counties whose standards have been
obtained by the Board Of Supervisors, or
in any city or Incorporated town after such
standards have been obtained therein
whereby any person shall be injured or
defrauded, he shall be subjected to a fine
not exceeding five dollars for each ohense
to be used for. and collected by the city,
county or town sealer. lie shall also be
subject to an action at law, in which the
defrauded person shall recover treble dam
ages and costs, and it shall be the duty Of
every person keeping any store, grocery
or other place for the sale or purchase of
such commodities as are usually sold by
weight or measure, once in each year to
procure the weights and measures used by
him, to be compared with the standard in
this Act provided, and shall be subject to a
fine of five dollars for every neglect to
comply with this provision, to be recov
cred by any one who shall prosecute there,
for.
s2S. All Acts and parts Of Acts incon-
sis,cnt with this Act are hereby repealed.
This bill having remained with the Gov
ernor three days Sunday excepted,) the
General Assembly being in session, has
become a law this 3lst day of March,
1862.
ELIJAH SELLS,
Secretary Of State.