Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-04
TO 7 PREVENT
SHORT WEIGHTS
And Measures---
Object of Bill By
MIR. Beach.
PROVIDES FOR INSPECTORS
At Salary of 500 a Year..
Small Peddlers Not
Affected.

ture IS Dill introduced in the House
by Mr., Beach which has for its oh.
lect, the prevention of fraud in the
weighing aud measuring of fuel
The bill is entitled an act creating
the Office of inspector of weights and
| measures in the several counties of
New Mexico. 1t provides that the
county commissioners Of each coun-
ty may appoint such an inspector
who shall receive a salary of 500 per
year This inspector will make his
rounds semiAnnually inspecting the
systems of weights and measures in
| use among the fuel dealers and after
each trip Of inspection in his county,
he will receive fifty dollars.
In speaking of the bill Mr. Beach
said:
Il do not know how it is in some
parts of the Territory but there are
sections OF New Mexico where a
man is as apt to get 1.500 pounds Of
coal when ordering ton as ne is
to get 1000.
Fuel Dealers Favor Bill.
81 drafted this bill upon the rec
concentration of a number of my con-
stituents who declared that it was
needed. The bill carries scarcely any
appropriation so to speak and / can
see no reason for any opposition to it.
Il have discussed the bill with MEM
bers of both Houses and found them
favorably disposed towards 1t.
Gwen the fuel dealers favor the
bill. 1t does not in any way effect the
poor wood choppers who pack limited
supplies of wood from the mountains,
but it is intended for the licensed
dealers. These latter favor the meas
ure because it is a protection for
them, The honest fuel dealer who
gives full measure and weight, is then
no longer at the mercy of him who
gives short measure and weight. /
am going to push the bill through as
rapMly ar pUssiDle andfl nope 10 see
IL enacted into a Ian in the near
future"
Mr.. Beach's Weight and Measure
bill is as follows:
Full Text of Bill.
An Act Creating the Office of Inspec-
tor of Weights and Measures in the
Several Counties of the Territory of
New Mexico
Be it Enacted, by the Legislative AS.
sembly of the Territory of New
Mexico:
Section l.. There is hereby created
in each of the several counties of the
Territory of New Mexico. now existing
or which may hereafter be created
the Office of Inspector of Weights and
Measures.
Sec. 2. The Board of County Com
missioners in each of the several
counties of the Territory of New Mex
leo are hereby authorized and empow
cred to appoint in their respective
counties an Inspector of Weights and
Measures. The first appointment un.
der this act shall be made by the sew
eral Boards of County Commissioners
Immediately after the passage of this
act and said officer so appointed shall
hold his Office for the term ending the
first Monday in January, 1909, or I'M
til his successor is duly appointed and
qualified unless sooner removed for
cause by said Board
Duty Of Inspector.
Sec 8. 1t shall be the duty of the
Inspector of Weights and Measures,
appointed under the provisions of the
preceding section, before entering
upon the discharge of his duties to
take an oath, as prescribed by law,
and furnish bond in the sum of one
thousand ($1,O00) dollars, signed by
two or more good and sufficient sure
ties, or by some bonding company au-
thorized to do business in the Terri
tory of New Mexico, to be approved
by the Board of County Commission
ers and to be conditioned for the faith
full discharge of his duties. After TAX
ing the oath of Office and furnishing
bond as herein required, 1t shall be
the duty of said inspector at inter
walls not less than five nor more than
seven months apart to examine and
test the accuracy of all weights, meas
ures, scales and other devices used for
weighing or measuring any article for
sale which may be used in such
manner that the accuracy of them may
be of pecuniary interest to any citi-
zen other than the owner or user
thereof; to stamp with a suitable seal
to be prescribed by the Board of
County Commissioners, each measure,
scale or other device for measurement
or weight, which he may find to con-
form or which shall be made to con-
form to the standard prescribed by
the laws of the United States and of
this Territory, and deliver to the
owner thereof certificate of the ac-
curacy thereof; to seize in the name
of the Territory all false weights,
measures, scales, or other devices for
measurement or weight, which he may
find and which the owner shall refuse
to have Immediately made to conform
to said laws; and he shall keep a rec
ord Of all scales, measures, or other
such devices inspected by him, speci-
flying date, place Of inspection and the