Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-04-15

inspector, or any of his deputies, or
any retailer or consumer, there is suff-
fcient cause to Justify a more COM
plete test of any oil or oils than that
provided for in this section, the said
state inspector shall cause the same
to be made as follows. He shall pro-
cure a sample or samples of such oil
or oils, making a note of the grades
as stamped upon such barrel, cask3
package and forward the same to the
state university, agricultural college; or
school OF mines. The chemist in
charge of the laboratory Of the insti-
tuition to which such oil 81 oils is sent
shall then make a test of such oil or
oils, n cause the. same to be made.
The methods of testing shall be those
employed at the laboratory Of the state
university as described in the report
of the professor of chemistry at the
state university to the oil inspector,
and incorporated as a part of the
official report of the state oil inspector
to the governor for the preceding
year. If, after all such tests pre-
scribed in section 6 herein are made,
such oil OF oils tested do not comply
with the requirements in said section
he shall fix his brand or device upon
such cask, barrel or package az fol-
lows: Below Grade"
Sec. s. Penalty For Sale.) If any
person shall knowingly buy, use, sell
or offer for sale to the trade for illumi-
mating or heating purposes any such
rejected oils, or any oils not stamped
as approved by the state Inspector Of
oils, or his deputy, in accordance with
the provisions of this act, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be sub
ject to a penalty in the discretion of
the COURT in any sum not exceeding
three hundred dollars.
Sec. g.. Records and Fees.) Each
and every inspector and deputy in
spector who shall inspect any o n
signment Of oils as provided in this
act shall demand and receive from the
owner of such oils, at the time such
oil is tested, the sum of forty cents
for testing and marking a, single bar
rel, thirty cents each when not x
ceeding five barrels in number, twenty
five cents when not exceeding
ten in number and fifteen cents per
barrel when the number of barrels is
greater than ten, submitted at one
time for inspection. Every such in
spector and deputy inspector shall
keep an accurate record of all the oils
inspected, rejected, branded Or certi-
fed to by him, which record shall
7 state:
The date Of each Inspections; ...'
The number of packages, barrels,
casks or tanks approved; -
The number rejected;
The number of gallons of Oil con-
tanned in such packages, casks, bar
rels or tanks;
The manufacturers brand; r..
The name of the person for whom
inspected; w. F.
The name of the person to whom
consigned, with his address;
The sum of money received for such
inspection;
And such record shall be open to all
persons interested. !"
On the first day of each and every
month every deputy inspector of oils
shall transmit to the state inspector
of oils all moneys received during the
preceding month and shall at the same
time forward to the auditor of the
state and to the state inspector of oils,
true copies of said record for the
month preceding. On the fifteenth
day of each and every month the in
spector shall transmit to the state
treasurer all moneys received during
the preceding month, and shall at the
same time forward to the auditor of
state true copies of said record for the
months preceding. The state .inspec-
tor of oils shall, in the months of
January OF each year, make and de-
liver to the governor a report of his
acts, and those Of his deputies during
the year preceding, together with re-
marks and suggestions for the benefit
OF, the service, which report shall in
clnde a copy and summary of the re-
ports submitted by the said deputies
as provided in this section. The in
spection fees forwarded to the state
treasurer as herein provided shalT con-
stitute and be known as the Oil inspec-
ton fund. The auditor of state shall
at the end of each and every month
issue his warrants to the state inspec-
tor Of oils al follows: The state in
spector of oils is entitled to receive
66 per cent of all the fees receive
by him and his deputy under the pro-
visions OF this act and this &c, per cent
shall in lieu of all the salaries, fees
and expenses incurred under the pro-
visions of this act while in the dis
charge of their official duty. The
persons appointed as deputy inspector
OF oils shall be paid by the state in
spector OF oils from the above amount
received by him; "a per cent thereof
shall go to the general fund of the
! state. The remaining 10 per cent of
the fees received under this act shall
constitute a chemical test, experiment
and apparatus fund, and the state in
! spector OF oils is authorized to use
such fund, or any part thereof, in car
rying forward chemical tests and ex-
! periments directed towards securing
more efficient tests or to purchase ap-
! paratus for such chemical tests or ex-
periments, and the auditor OF state
shall on the renuisition Of the state
inspector OF oils issue his warrants
tTnr the sar1at On&fhn first dav III