Daily Republican., 1881-06-02
rt Measures and MIR. vasey.

uhC0HuNOH mAu uAEs VASSJs
As will be seen by a communication
in another column of the REPUBLICAN
we have succeeded in finding out and
letting the public know who the Regis
tor of Weights and Measures is. That
gentleman very properly lets the peo-
pie know that he has at least made
some attempt to carry out the law,
but the public, if we are not mistaken,
will hardly be satisfied with this mere
technical discharge of his duty, while
the weights and measures in the city of
Wilmington remain unadjusted. 1t is
true the law requires Mr.. Vasey to give
notices during the months of Septem-
Der and October, but unfortunately it
does not specify how such notice is to
be given, and in the absence of specific
instructions Mr.. Vasey following in the
footsteps of his predecessors, has pursued
the plan that gives the least notice and
costs the least money-that of posting
small handbills in bar rooms where
business men but seldom have business
to transact. In other things the news
paper has been recognized by law as
the proper source of advertising notices.
The Sheriff is not only required to post
bills but to advertise in at least two
newspapers, and the administrator of
estates is also required to make use of
the newspapers. If the latter are so
beneficial that the law makes it obliga-
tory to use them, it is to be wondered
at why Mr.. NaSey did not catch the
spirit of the law when he was posting
his notices around the county. How /
ever we have shown in local article ;
elsewhere that the Register of Weights !
and Measures has not performed his 1
duty by going to the appointed hotel L
and waiting there to regulate the Il
weights and measures merely that our a
merchants may see proper to bring him. "
He is required to search out and regu- G
late those not brought to him as well.
The intention of the law is that weights
and measures shall be regulated by a S
certain standard, that honesty may be il
the rule in dealing, and the question is lC
how can this be done unless the officer fC
to whom such duty is intrusted hunts t,
up such weights and measures and n
stamps them? The mere going to a il
hotel and regulating the hall dozen or
so that may be brought to him while N
hundreds of others who do not bring
their measures to him are allowed to 90
ahead with their short measures and
cheat the people with impunity, does not
meet the requirements of the law 1t is D
MIR. Vasey's place to go to those dealers 'e
who do not go to him and regulate their G q;
whether they are willing or "
not, and it they persist in selling with t
short measures to prosecute them at once =
to the fullest extent of the law. o.
We venture to say that it would be G
interesting to know how many and y
whose weights and measures Mr.. Vasey ~
regulated in Wilmington, and that list C;
compared with all whose measures are a,
not regulated would be infinitesmally NJ
small indeed. Mr.. Vasey you were ap-
pointed to regulate the weights and ST
measures of the merchants in New aC
Castle County. Have you done 50 4? oa ol
So long as single merchant has been al
overlooked your duty is unperformed.
The office you fill means something re re
else than the mere technical discharge of a;
duty and the pocketting of one hundred &C
and seventy-fve dollars, small though
this sum may seem. We have not the U' "'
pleasure of being acquainted with Mr.. T
Vasey, but we have no doubt he is an az
honorable and upright gentleman, and
has mechanically performed the duties Il
of his office like many before him. If A
he is the honorable, upright man we N
suppose him to be he will hardly rest >,
easy in his office while the people of G
Wilmington are being cheated with tt
short weights and measures which he u
was appointed to regulate, and which r
he has not regulated. Mr.. Vasey, the @
people are cheated. Do your duty. &c
The Readjuster's Convention. h