The Coconino sun., 1912-08-02
STATE TO SUPERVISE
 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
New State Law Goes Into Effect August 18th All Weights and Measures to
 be Tested by Inspectors

sed by the special session of the first legislature of Arizona will go into effect on August IS, and State Inspector O. N. Cresswell has been in Phoenix for the past month making all the necessary arrangements for putting the law into effect.
 There are number of interest ing provisions in the bill that are both of concern to the purchaser and the dealer. The bill was pas sed at the first regular session but because it failed to contain the provision placing the inspection of the gas, water and electric light meters under the supervision of the state inspector and local seal CTS of weights and measures, Gov ernor Hunt vetoed the bill and transmitted to the senate and house his reasons therefore. Sem ator John T. Hughes, who had the bill in charge in the regular session, immediately thereupon provided another measure con taining the provisions called for by Governor Hunt, and it was soon passed by both houses and signed by his excellency.
 Under the provisions of the bill the state standards for weights and measures are made to be the same as those kept in the national bureau of standards at Washing ton. It is also provided that when- ever changes are made in the standards at Washington the same shall be supplied by the state as the standards in conformity there with. The law deals with every possible commodity that is sold by weight or measure. Foodstufs especially are dealt with in man. ner calculated to protect the pur- chaser.
 In connection with the sale of bread no person is allowed to keep or offer for sale any bread in loaves without having a stamp thereon containing the correct weight at the time the bread is marked and wrapped; but an al- lowance of 5 per cent in weight is made for shrinkage on all loves of bread over one day old, ten per cent for two days old bread, and bread over three days old must be sold as stale bread. All the bread other than that strictly new, and which does not come within the stale bread provision must be stamped with the age of the loaf thereon, as we'll as the net weight of the loaf when it was first wrap ped and marked.
 In the sale of coal it is pro- vided that coal must be sold by weight and a slip must accompany the delivery of the coal so bought. On this slip there must appear the gross weight of the load or fraction of the load, the tare weight of the vehicle in which the coal is delivered, and the tare weight of the container if the coal be boxed or sacked and the net weight of the purchase. The slip accompanying the load must have written or printed plainly upon it the name of the dealer and the purchaser, and shall be a dupli- cate of the slip kept by the dealer of the coal. Either of these slips must be surrendered to the state inspector of weights and measures upon his demand.
 The sale of water, milk and cream must be made only in bot ties in which the name of the dealer shall be clearly blown or permanently marked. The bot ties must also be marked with the capacity. Individual sales of warer, milk and cream may be made in bottles of the following capacity: Half gallon, three pints, one quart, one pint, one-half ,D;nt and one ef;ll and fhev Yuuc