Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-06
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bushel, and no agreement as TO weights or
measures thereof shall be made by the
parties, the bushel shall consist OF the fol
lowing number Of pounds. VIZ; Salt, lime
AMI mineral coal, eighty, corn In shuck,
Seyenty.two; unshellod corn. seventy
wheat, beans. peas and split peas. beets,
Irish potatoes clover seed, including alfalfa
and alsike (or Swedishl sixty; onions,
fifty'seyen: rye, shelled corn. flaNseed,
green peas. (unshetcd). aud laSir
corn, ffy.six; sweet potatoes, hfty'hve;
buckwheat, fitty.two; carrots, rutabagas,
corn meal, milet, sorghum seed and
pears, eucumbers, Hungarian grass seed,
and broom corn seed, forty eight; castor
beans. forty six; tomatoes, and timothy
seed, forty five: parsnips and hemp seed,
forty four common turnips, iorty two ser
muda grass seed, forty; malt, thirty eight
Usage orange seed, thirty six, dried peaches,
thirty three; oats and cotton seod, thirty.
two; top onion sets twenty eight arled
apples twenty four peanuts, n, twenty two
top and orchard grasS fourteen; coke and
charcoal. tweuty-siN hundred and eighty
cubic inches per bushel A ton shall con
sist OF two thousand pounds OF the article
or commodity named
ton OF hay shall consist OF two thou.
sand pounds, or, by measurement, three
hundred and forty three cubic feet, after the
same shall have been stacked thirty days,
or such time as may be agreed upon between
tho parties
perch OF mason work, or stone is
hereby declared to consist OF twenty five
feet cubic measure
SECTION 5 STANDARD WEIGHTS OF
after mentioned shall have tho following
standard weights. Barrel Of flour In wood.
one hundred and ninety six pounds net
half barrels, In wood, ninety'eight pounds
net; onefourth barrels, In sack forty eight
pounds gross. Corn meal, in sacks thirty.
five pounds gross; half sacks, seventeen and
e-half pounds gross onefourth sacks,
eight and three fourth pounds gross. And
whether pure, mixed or adulterated, one
hundred pounds per sack gross.
SECTION o. NAME AND WEIGHT
STAMPED ON PACKAGE The correct
name and true weight OF the contents oi
each and every barrel, box, sack bale cdsk
or package OF any OF the foregoing products,
whether soli In single packages or lots,
shall be plainly marked. branded or stem
ciled In letters and figures, not less than
two inches in length and not less than ore.
eighth OF an inch In width upon the exter.
ior OF such barrel box, sack, bale eask or
package, In conspicuous place as the head
In case OF barrel, and the front or branded
side In case OF sacks, bales or packages
and II shall be unlawful for any person.
firm or corporation, or the agent employee
or representative OF any firm or corpora
tion TO sell or exchange any such product
so packed or contained until the provisions
SECTION Z The Inspector Of Weights
and Measures shall have the privilege OF
seizing any mill product and commodity
sold In the City OF Tulsa In violation or
dnance, and may canke tho arrest Of any
person selling or offering the same for sale
In violation OF the provisions hereof and
may use In evidence any commodity 80
seized, and In case the snno is lost, de
stroyed or deterioratcs for any cause, thc
City or the officer making the seizure shall
not In any case be held responsible for the
value thereof, provided such officer acts In
good faith.
SECTION 8. Any manufacturer dealer
or Other person who shall impede, obstruet
hinder or otherwise prevent or assist In
preventing the Inspector Of Weights and
Measures, or any person assisting him. In
the performance OF tie duties herein speci.
fled or while carrying into effect any OF the
provisions Of this ordinance, shall be deem.
ed guilty Of misdemennor
SECTION o. Any person, firm or cor
porntion, as manufacturer, dealer. merchant
or individual, selling or offering for sale
any commodity herein mentioned by weight
or measure and who knowingly violates any
of the provisions OF this ordinance shall be-
doomed guilty OF a misdemeanor and shall
upon conviction thereof be fined In any
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and
each violation shall be deemed a separat,
offense.
SECTION 10. That an emergency exist,
for the preservation Of the public peace and
welfare, by reason whereof this ordinance
shall take effect from and after its pass
age. approval and publication.
PASSED and the emergency clause ruled
upon separately and approved this 4th day
OF September 1917.
APPROVED this 4th day OF September
1917.
j. II. SIMMONS.
Attest: Mayor
FRANK NEWKIRK,
City Auditor.
Approved:
JOHN Is. NESERvE,