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used or malnlalneu Tor use within his
county, or which are brought TO the
Office OF the county sealer for that pur.
pose. with the copies OF the original
standards in the possession Of the
county sealer who shall receive a sal
ary fixed by the county commission
ers to be paid by the county. which
salary shall be instead of AL fees or
charges otherwise allowed by law.
Such deputy shall also be employed
by the county sealer TO assist in the
prosecution Of all violations of laws
relating to weights and measures. (R
5. Sec. 1901 amended May 81, 1919
Under this section Mr.. j. G. Tinkey
was appointed and you can see that IL
puts MIN under the employment of the
county sealer and also the state seal.
er and at the same time the state
sealer can send any one else here he
chooses at any time to assist in en-.
forcing these laws.
Notice particularly how the follow
ing. section says a bushel shall be the
weight Sec. 641S-1:
Section 641S A bushel OF the re-
spective articles hereinafter mention
ed shall be the amount OF weight.
avoirdupois, in this section specified,
viz: of wheat, sixty pounds of rye,
fifty-siX pounds; of timothy seed. for
ty-five pounds; of hemp seed, forty
four pounds; of millet seed, fifty
pounds of buckwheat, fifty pounds; of
beans, sixty pounds; of peas, sixty
pounds of hominy, sixty pounds; OF
Irish potatoes, sixty pounds; of sweet
potatoes. fifty pounds; of onions. fifty
five pounds; OF dried peaches, thirty
three pounds; of dried apples twenty.
four pounds; of fiaxseed, ffty-six
pounds; of barley, forty-eight pounds;
of malt. thirty-four pounds; of Hungar.
ian grass seed, fifty pounds; of lime,
seventy pounds; of coke, forty pounds;
of bituminous coal. eighty pounds; of
camel coal, seventy pounds; OF corn,
shelled, iifty.six pounds; of corn in the
ear, siXty-eight pounds; of popcorn in
the ear. forty-two pounds ;Sof tomatoes,
fifty-six pounds; of apples, fifty
pounds of peaches. forty-eight
pounds of turnips, sixty pounds; of
carrots, fifty pounds; of beets, fifty
six pounds; of oats. thirty-two pounds;
of clover seed sixty pounds. (R. S.
Sec. 4443.)
The clause unless by agreement of
all contracting parties is not mean.
ingless but implies that the buyer must
be aware and consent TO any variation
in the regular requirement of the law.
II does not mean that he must demand
of the seller to comply with the law,
but rather the seller must follow the
law as it stands unless the buyer
agrees to accept his purchase under a
different agreement, the parties can
agree to change the method of pur-
chase, but unless both agree land
right here allow me to hint to you that
an eye witness might become valua.
BILE asset the sale must be by weight
or numerical count OF the articles men
toned in Sec 641S-l
ly sold by heaped measure shall be
heaped in a conical form as high as
such articles permit.
Section 6417-the last clause says
commodities other than liquids when
sold by the gallon or less. shall be sold
by the dry measure, Sec. 1903. who
fruits uses a measure other than the
standard dry measure bushel or frac.
ton thereof, shall be fined not less
than $1,000 nor more than $4,000.
Section 1906 Whosoever, in buy
ing or selling any property, or direct.
ing or permitting an employe so to do,
knowingly makes or gives false or
short weight or measure or whoever
has charge of scales or steelyards fixed
for the purpose of misweighing an ar
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tice bought or sold, or, having scales
or steelyards for the purpose of weigh
ing property, knowingly reports false
or untrue weight, or whoever uses in
the sale of commodity a computing
scale or device indicating the weight
and price of such commodity upon
which scale or device the graduations
or Indications are false, or inaccurate
ly placed, either as to weight or price,
shall be fined not more than fifty dol
lar Or. 8. Sec. 7067)
Section 1928. Whoever put up or
packs goods OF articles sold by weight,
into a case or package, and fails to
mark thereon the gross, tare and net
weights thereof in pounds and frac-
tions thereof, or, with intent to de-
fraud, transfers a brand, mark, or
stamp placed upon case or package
by manufacturer, to another case
or package, or, with like intent, re-