New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-08-04
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POLICE JURY ORDINANCE,

Parish of Iberia, that in pursuance of Act
No. 20 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly, of the State of Louisiana of 1898, that
the Office of Inspector of weights and
measures is hereby created for the Parish
of Iberia.
Be it further ordained: That the Police
Jury of Iberia Parish shall elect some suit
able person as Inspector of weights and
measures of Iberia Parish as soon as prac-
ticable, who shall serve for the space of
four years from the date of his election, or
until his successor in Office shall have been
duly elected and qualified.
Be it further enacted: That Iberia
Parish shall be provided, at the expense
of said parish, with a set of weights and
measures to correspond with those in use
by the State of Louisiana, the same to be
kept by the Clerk of Court.
Section 1914. Be it ordained: That
it shall be the duty of the person thus
elected to visit all places of business in
their parish once in each year, and at any
other time when, on complaint or by re-
quest, his services may be required, and
to inspect all weights and measures used
in the places of business, and when found
to correspond with the standard of the
state, to seal them or to give a written
certificate Of their correctness but when
found to disagree with the standard of the
state the Inspector shall forbid their further
use until they shall have been corrected,
approved and sealed 1t shall also be the
duty of the Inspector to attend upon all
calls made upon him for performing the
duties of his office.
Section 1915. Be it ordained That it
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that no other weights and measures but
those established by law be made use Of
within the limits Of the parish; and in
case of negligence or breach on the part
of the Inspector he-shau be condemned to
pay fine not exoaeding two hundred nor
lass than one hundred dollars.
Section 1918. Be IL ordained: That the
person elected Inspector, sealer of weights
and measures shall be entitled to and re-
ceive the following fees: For each yearly
visit and inspection of a full set Of steel
yards, or of scales with their weights, or
of balances with their weights, or of
bushel measure and its parts, or Of gallon
measure and its parts, or set Of yard
sticks, they shall receive twenty-five cents
and no more for sealing each weight and
measure, five cents for the examination
of each platform scale, cotton and tobacco
scale, and its apparatus, fifty cents, and
for sealing the same, fifty cents the
fees in all cases to be paid by the owners
OF the weights and measures inspected and
sealed. The stamp shall be impressed and
payment required for doing the same only
on such as have not been stamped, or such
as, having once been stamped, are found
so defective as to require to be regulated
with the standard.
Section 1920. Be it ordained: That
the Inspector only shall have the power to
stamp weights and measures, and upon
the stamp shall be the initials of the In
spector's name.
Section 1921. Be it ordained: That no
person shall buy or sell any commodity
whatsoever, by weight or measure, which
does not correspond with the aforesaid
standard or is not stamped, after the said
parish has procured the said standard of
weights and measures as aforesaid OF
shall keep any such weights or measures
for the purpose of buying or selling there
by, under the penalty of fifty dollars for
each offence, besides the forfeiture Of the
weights and measures found to be false; and
of a fine of ten dollars when the weights and
measures shall be found to be just, though
not stamped said fine to be recovered
before any tribunal of competent jurisdic-
to the benefit of the infor-
mer, and the other half to the parish Of
Iberia.
Section 1922. Be it ordained: That
whoever shall make or cause to be made
use Of, or shall utter false stamps or seals,
shall, on conviction thereof, be subjected
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laws Of this state.
Section 1924. Be it ordained: That the
person appointed to inspect and seal
weights and measures may employ assist
ance when necessary, at his own ex-
pense, but shall not commit his functions
to substitute without being subject to
dismissal by the police jury.
Section 1925. Be it ordained: That
there shall be in this parish dry measure,
to be known under the name of barrel,
which shall contain three and quarter
bushels, according to the American stand
ard, and shall be divided into half and
quarter barrels.
Section 1926. Be it ornained: That
coal shall be sold by the barrel or bushel
measure grain shall be sold by the barrel,
bushel or weight. The legal weight Of :
bushel Of wheat shall be sixty pounds Of
, bushel Of corn, fifty Elk pounds; Of .
bushel Of oate, 50 pounds, Of . bushel Of
barley, 80 pounds; and Of bushel of rye,
80 pounds.
Be il further ordained: That all ordin- |
lnees in conflict or contrary herewith be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Adopted unanimously.
This 2lst day Of June, A. D. 1900.
]. F. BRITAIN, President,
A. B. ROMERO, Secretary.