The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-11
AN ORDINANCE.

Supplementary to the Ordinance en-.
titled IAN Ordinance in Relation "a
the Election, Duties, and Fees of the
WeIGh.MRSter OF Ihe City OF wheel
ing.
Be i ordained By the Council of The city
Of Wheeling:
SEC. 1. There shall be within the city
limits three weigh scales, In ADDITION
to the scales at the Second and Filth
| Ward maket houses, to be located as
| follows: One at the corner of WASH
ington and Market streets, in the First
| Ward; one at the old market space, in
the Fourth Ward; and one at the corner
of Zane and Walnut streets, in the
Seventh Ward.
articles, now required to be weighed
on the public weigh scales, all coal
bought, sold, or delivered within the
city in carts, wagons, or other vehicles,
shall be weighed upon one of said
scales, and the number of bushels in
each load ascertained by weight, by
the Weigh-master or one OF his depu
ties, at the rate of eighty pounds to the
bushel. And if any person shall offer
for sale, or sell, or deliver, or receive
payment,fOr, any load ofcoal which has
not been SO weighed, and the number
of bushels thereof ascertained, and be-
fore no has obtained a certificate there
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cate, shall sell or otherwise dispose of
said load, or any part or parcel thereof,
contrary 10 the certificate; or attempt
to impose false certificate in the sale
| thereof; or, when he has made sale,
shall not, in the delivery of the coal,
also deliver the certificate OF its weight
TO the purchaser; or shall practice
any deception by cOncealing any sub
stance in the load with view to de-
fraud; he shall, for every such ofIense,
forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars.
And every person purchasing and pay
ing for coal not previously weighed
and certified, shall likewise forfeit and
pay for every such ottense, the sum of
five dollars. And if the Weigh
master or any of his deputies
shall purchase any coal or hay.
other than for his own use, he shall
forfeit and pay for every such Offense
the sum of twenty dollars. Provided,
That this section shall not apply to coal
delivered at the Water Works. or dis
tributed by order of the Council TO the
public offices, or poor of the city; nor
10 manufacturers or others who pur-
chase by continuous contract, where
the seller and buyer agree to waive
weighing under this ordinance.
SEQ. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
and his deputies to keep
a register at each scales, which shall
shall be entered every load |
weighed at said scales; giving the |
name of the article weighed, for whom |
the weight; date of Weighing;
and, If coal, the kind thereof, whether
clear, mixed or slack; and the fee re.
ceived for weighing. And he shall fur
nish II certificate stating the number
of bushels therein contained, the kind,
If of coal; and the number of pounds,
ii of other articles.
SEC. 4. For weighing coal the weigh
master shall be allowed TO charge the
following fees, and no more, which
shall be paid ut the time the certificate
of measure is given, by the owner of
the coal:
For each load containing Thirty BUSH
els and under, five cents; for each load
over thirty and not more
than fifty bushels, ten cents; for each
load containing more than fifty BUSH
els, fifteen cents. II
SEC. 3. All fines imposed by this or
dinnnce shall be imposed and collect
ed in the same manner as is prescribed
in Section 40, of an ordinance entitled |
An Ordinance Defining and Prescrib-
ing the Punishment of Certain Of
fenses."
SEC. 6. The weighmaster shall pay
into the city treasury fifty per centltnI |
of all fees received by him and his de.
putles as rent for the use of said
city on the first Monday of each
month, who shall settle with him ac-
cording to his registers.
SEC. Z. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances heretofore enacted inCon-
sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
SEC. s. This ordinance shall go into |
effect on the--day---, 1868.