The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-10-08
THE PUBIC wEiGmEI CENTRAL.

SECTION /. Be It enacted Jy the
Legislature of the State Of TEXAS,
That there is hereby created an Of
flee to be styled tho Office Of Public
Weighcr.
SEC. 2. The Governor is hereby
authorized and required to appoint
three competent persons as public
weighors in the city of Galveston,
and one or more, not to exceed three
in any one city, competent persons
us public weighers in the cities of
Houston, Sherman, Dallas, Austin
and Waco, and at such other cities
as in The Judgment of the Governor
may be expcdient, who shall hold
his Office two years and until his
successor is appointed and qualified
subj Get to removal by the Governor
for misconduct or incompetcncy in
Office.
Sec. 3, Every person so appoin-
ted, before entering upon the duties
of office, shall take and subscribe an
oath faithfully and impartially to
administer the duties of his office ;
and he shall also execute bond
with good and sufficient securities
in the sum of ten thousand dollars,
payable to the Governor of tho
State of Texas and his successors in
office, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his official duties,
which said bond shall be certified to
be sufficient by the presiding justice
Of the county wherein the city for
which said appointment shall be
made is situated; which said bond
certified as aforesaid shall be filed
and recorded in the Office Of the
clerk of the district court Of the
county wherein said city shall be
situated.
Sec 4. When the person so APP
pointed as aforesaid shall have quail
fled as aforesaid, he shall enter up
on the duties of his Office and shall
weigh without unnecessary dely all
cotton, wool, sugar and hides re-
CURED to be weighed. and shall
mark upon the same plainly, in tig-
ures, the weight thereof, and make
n return of such weights in detailed
form to the owner or owners there
of, or their agents or factors, after
first certifying the correctness
thereof. Ho shall als) keep copies
Ofthe weights Of all articles weighed
by him, and shall furnish certified
copy of the same, at any time, to the
owner or his agents, or the purcha-
ser thereof on demand
SEC. 3. The public wcighers
shall have power to appoint one or
more deputies who shall take and
subscribe an oath similar to the one
herein provided, to be taken by the
pubic weigher, for whose acts the
princiqAl shall be responsible.
SSmty pre- shall keep accurate and
will adjusted scales and balances
and accurate weights, and shall
have the same tested and certified to
as !5vided by law.
SEC. Z. He shall be allowed a
fee of ten cents for each bale OF cotton
weighed; and fec of ten cents for
each bale or sack of wool weighed
and for each hogshead OF sugar
weighed. fee of fifty cents for
each barrel weighed fec of ten
cents; for each bale of hide ten
cents; and for each loose hide two
cents and he shall not be obliged
to deliver any such cotton, WOO
hides, or sugar, 80 weighed, until
such fee has been paid.
SEC. s. 1t shall not be lawful ioi
any person, other than regularly
appointed weigher or his deputies, tC
weight any cotton, wool, sugar, OF
hides, offered for sale or sold in any
OF the cities ramed in this act, or il
any other cit, or town where any
public weigher may be appointed bJ
the Governor; and any person sc
offending shall be liable TO indlct
ment, and on conviction thereon
shall be fined five dollars for eacl
and every bale of cotton, bale O.
sack ofwool, and hogshead ofsugar
so unlawfully weighed prorIded
that nothing in this act shall be st
construed as to prevent any persol
from weighing his, her or their cot
ton, wool, sugar or hides, in person
without being compelled to call upo
apublic weighcr to weigh the same
Sec. 8. That an act entitle "a
Act for the appointment OF publ
woighers, and prescribing thel
duties and liabilities" approve
February z, 1860, be and the same
hereby repealed.
SEC. 10. Thatany public weighe
who shall T ] to comply with tn
provisions ofthis act shall be liabl
on his bond for all damages; and an
4 public weight or his deputy, certify
to any false weight of cotton, suga
wool or hides shall DO deeme
guilty Of a felony, and on canvlc
ion thereof, shall BIO confined in IL
State penitentiary not less than Oh
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