The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-09-18
Regulation
Requiring Retail Coal Dealers
to Register.

iholity of IN Executive Order of
the President of the United
States, dated 23rd Of August,
1917, appointing said Fuel Adj
Illustrator, and of subsequent
Executive Orders, and in fur
therunce Of the purpose of said
orders and of the Act of Con.
gress therein referred TO and
approved August 10, 1917, hav.
ing heretofore appointed the
undersigned Federal Fuel Adj
ministrator for the State Of
Virginia, with power and au-
thority to said Fuel Admins
traitor in respect to coal and
coke within said state to pre-
scribe and administer reason
able rules for the regulations
Of the sale, shipment, distribu-
ton, apportionment and storage
of coal and coke within said
State;
And it appearing to said Fed
eral Fuel administrators that
in order to assure an equitable
distribution of coal and coke
in said State to aid in the etfi-
cient prosecution OF the war,
and more effectively to regulate
the sale, shipment, distribution,
apportionment and storage of
coal and coke among dealers
and consumers in snid State, it
is necessary that retail dealers
engaged in the business of sell
ing coal and coke in said State
be required to register as here.
matter provided.
Said Federal Fuel Admins
traitor hereby makes and estab
fishes the following regulation
TO be effective until futher or
other order and subject to mod
ificntion hereafter from time to
time ut any time:
|. All persons, firms, associ.
atoms and corporations engag-
ed in the distributions of coal
or coke in the State of Virginia
as retail dealers, i. e., who
physically receive, handle and
deliver coal or coke to consum-
ers from docks, yards, trestlcs,
vehicles, barges or vessels, own.
ed, hired or chartered by them,
or from cars consigned to them,
including employers who sell
and distribute coal or coke to
employees shall on or before the
LIST day of October, 1918, or if
they begin business after that
day, then, before beginning,
business, register with the
County Fuel Administrators of
each county in which a dock,
yard or trestle owned or hired
by such retail dealer is located,
and of each county in which
such retail dealer delivers or
distributes coal or coke to con
Bumers.
2. Each registration required
by Section | hereof shall be
made in duplicate on forms to
be prescribed by the Federal
Fuel Administrators establish
ing this Regulation, one copy
to be kept by the Registrant
and one by the County Fuel
administrators.
3. Retail dealers who regis
ter IA required by this Regula-
tons will receive n certificate
or certificates signed by or on
behalf of the County Fuel AID.
mlnistrator with whom regis
tration is made, for tho period
ending April /, 1919, and zach
certificate 30 received must at
oil times be posted in II con.
spicuous place at each office or
place of business of the regis.
trant. On April /, 1919, and
Of each succeeding year, certi-
iicates must be renewed.
4. Retail dealers doing bust
ness under more than one name
or through subsidiary com
panies or agencies bearing diff
ferent names must register un-
der and obtain certificates for
each separate name, subsidiary
company or agency.
b. No fees shall be charged
for registration.
9. Any retail dealer who
Tails to register, as required by
this Regulation, will be sub.
JeCted tn the nan ltiea prasrrih-