The Somerset reporter., 1899-03-23
CHAPTER So.

| AN ACT relating to sealers OF Weights and
Measures.
Section /. The seaers OF weights and meas.
| ures IN the several cities and towns shall
| annually give public notice by advertisement,
or by posting In one or more public places in
their respective cities aud towns notices to all
| inhabitants or persons having usual places of
business therein and who use weights,
measures or balances for the purpose of sell.
ing any goods, wares, merchandise or other
commodities or for public Weighing to bring
in their weights, measures and balances to be
adjusted and sealed. Such sealers shall attend
in one or more convenient places and shall
| adjust, seal and record all weights, measures
and balances so brought IN.
Section .. After giving said notice the said
sealers shall go to the houses, stores and shops
OF persons who neglect TO comply Herewith,
and having entered the Same with the assent of
the occupants thereof, shall adjust and seal
their weights, measures and balances.
Section 5. Said sealers shall go once year
and oftener II necessary, to every hay and
coal scale, 20 every platform balance within
their respective cities and towns that cannot
be easily or conveniently removed, and shall
test the accuracy of and adjust and seal the
same.
Section L. All persons using any scales,
weights or measures for the purpose of buying
or selling any commodity, may, when they
desire II, have the same tested and sealed by
the sea.ers of weights and measures at the
Office of any of said seaers.
Section 8. In case a sealer of weights and
measures cannot seal any weights, measures
and balances In the manner before provided,
he may mark them with a stencil. or by other
i ii
been inspected; but he shall in no case seal or
mark as correct any weights, measures or
balances which do not conform to the stan.
dards. II such weights, measures or bal
snces can be readily adjusted by such means
as he has at hand, he may adjust and seal
them but if they cannot be readily adjusted,
he shall afix TO such weights, measures or
balances a notice, forbidding their use until he
is satisfied that they have been so adjusted as
| to conform to the standards; and whoever re.
moves said notice without consent OF the
officer aiii1ing the same, shnll for each ofTense
forfeit n sum not exceeding fifty dollars, one.
half to the use OF the city or town and one
half to the use of the complainant.
Section 3. y seucr when visiting the place
| of business of any person for the purpose OF
| testing any weights, measures or balances,
may use FOR that purpose such weights meas
ures or balances as he can conveniently carry
with him, and each city and town shall furnish
its seaer with one or more duplicate sets of
weights, measures and balances, which shall
at al times be kept to conform to the standards
furnished by the state, and all weights, meas.
ures and balances so scaled shall be deemed to
be legally sealed tho same as II tested and
sealed with the standard weights. measures
and balances.
Section :. \ sealer of weights and measures
may seize without n warrant such weights,
measures or balances as may DO necessary to
be used as evidence In cases of violation of the
law relating to the scaling OF weights and
measures, such weights, measures or balances
to be returned TO the owners, or forfeited rs
the court may direct.
Section 8. when a complaint is made 10 a
senler OF weights and measures by any person
that he has reasonable cause to believe or
when such sealer himself has reasonable cause
to believe that n weight, measure or balance
used In the sale OF any commodity within his
city or town Is incorrect, the said sealer shah
90 to the place where such weight, measure or
balance Is and shall test the same, and mark II
according TO the result of the test applied there.
TO and II the same Is incorrect and cannot be
adjusted, the said sealer shall attach notice
thereto, certifying that fact and forbldiing the
use thereof until IL has been made TO conform
to the authorized standard. Any person usin &
a weight, measure or balance after sealer has