Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-25


SEQ. 2642. Each Lumber Inspector.
and each Deputy Lumber Inspector
shall, before entering upon the duties
of his office, take aud subscribe an oath
that he will faithfully discharge the
duties of his Office to the best of his
knowledge and ability. Each Lumber
Inspector shall execute to the Territory
of Washington bond. with three or
more sureties, to be approved by the
Judge of the District Court in whose
judicial district the said lumber district
is situated, in the sum of 5000, condi-
toned that he and his deputies will
faithfully perform their duties as Lum-
Der Inspectors of District No. (desipna
ting the district), and if said Lumber
Inspector or his deputy shall fail to
keep the conditions of said bond. then
the person agerieved by bis or their
wrongful or unlawful act, shall have a
right of action against said Inspector
and the sureties on said bond, and they
shall be liable on said bond for any
Judgment recovered in such action, to
the amount Of the penalty of such
bond.
Sec. 26t3. The Governor shall desic
nate the place in which Lumber In
spectors shall keep their Offices at the
time he appoints such inspectors.
Sec. 2644. Each Inspector shall have
the right to appoint one or more Deputy
Lumber Inspectors for his district and
he and his boEdsmen shall be held re-
sponsible on their official bond for the
acts Of srch Deputies in the discharge of
their official duties.
Sec. 2645. All logs bartered or sold in
the districts aforesaid shall be scaled
and measured at the place where they
are doomed or RATED ready for towage
to market or mill.
Sec. 26i6. No logs shall be towed from
the place where they are aoomed or
RATED, and required to be scaled and
measured, as provided for in the pre-
ceding section, unless the owner or
owners thereof, or some one in their be
half, have. caused the same to be meas
ured, scaled and inspected by the Lam
Der Inspector. or one of his Deputies, of
the district in which such logs are
doomed or RATED for towage as afore-
said. All persons violating this section
by removing the said. logs before they
are scaled and measured IA herein pro-
vided for, or by aiding in the removal of
misoemeanor, and on conviction thereof
shall. for each offense, be fined in any
sum not less shan $500 nor more than
$1,000, aud they shall stand committed
until such fine and the costs of prosecu-
tion are paid.
Sec. 3647. On the settlement and meas
ureMent of saw logs. the Inspector. or
his deputy. making the same shall make
ont n bill stating therein the number Of
logs, the number of feet, board measure,
contained IN such logs, aud at whose re-.
quest. aad for whom, the same were
scaled or measured; a copy Of which he
shall enter upon the books of his Office,
to be provided HIM and kept for that
purpose, with the marks. If any. as they
occur upon the logs. A correct bill of
the same shall be given 10 Zach owner,
with 4 certificate thereto attached that
it ia true and correct bill, which bill so
certified shall be presumptive evidence
of tho facts therein contained, and of
the correctness Of such settlement or
measurement. in all the courts of this
Territory, except in favor of the In
spector, or deputy Inspector. who made
the same.
Sec. 264S. Each Lumber Inspector
and his deputies shall. in scaling or
measuring logs, make such allowance
for hollow or crooked logs as would
make them equal to good, sound,
straight and merchandise logs; and ali
logs shall be measured under and in ac-
cordance With the rule herein provided.
Each Lumber Inspector shall require Of
each Of his deputies ut the end OF each
month q correct account OF all the logs
measured or scaled by him during the
month next preceding. and be shall i'm
mediatcly enter such accounts upon the
books Of his Office. The scale and rule
by which the quantity Of logs shall be
determined II tao rule laid down and
prescribed in Scrihper's Lumber and
Log Book, az copyrighted in 1882. BY
George w. Fisher. of Rochester, New
York.
Sec. 26i9. Each Lumber INSPECTOR.
or his deputy, shall receive and collect
from the person employing them for
measuring and scaling logs and similar
timber, rs herein provided, the follow
ing fees: For every boom or raft not
exceeding three hundred thousand feet,
five cents per thousand; and for all
booms and RATS over three hundred
thousand feet, three and a half cents
psr thousand One half of one PER
per cent. of the fees paid to tho Inspec.
tor or his Deputies, a. herein provided,
shall be for the benefit of the common
school fund OF the counties in which
the lumber districts arc situated, and
shall be given to tho county in which
the logs we're cut.
Sec. ESQ. When any logs ont, bsomed
or RATED in any Of the lumber districts
herein designated. shall have been
scaled or measured, an herein provided.
the scale bill Of such measurement,
made and certified az herein provided,
shall be delivered to the owner Of the
logs scaled or measured, and il shall
constitute the basis by which the
quantity Of such logs shall be detsE-
mined.
SEQ. 265l. The flnes recovered under
the provisions OF this act shall be for
The beueGt Of the common school fund
of tbs Territory of Washington and
sneh fnss shall b assignsd and paid b