salt, per sack, two cents; corn, meal, potatoes, per sack, two cents; ploughs, each, three cents; wet and dry hides, each, one cent; wood, per cord, twenty-five cents; staves, per thousand, twenty-five cents; shingles, large, per thousand, eighteen and three-quarter cents; shingles, small, per thousand, twelve and a half cents; bricks, per thousand, fifty cents; lumber, per thousand, fifty cents; turpentine, per barrel, three cents; rosin, per barrel, two cents; iron, per ton, thirty cents; measurement freight, five cubic feet to the barrel, three cents; wet and dry barrels, each, six cents; carriages, estimated twenty-five barrels each, at three cents, seventyfive cents; rockaways, estimated twenty barrels, at three cents, sixty cents; buggies, two in a box, estimated fifteen barrels each, at three cents, forty-five cents; buggies, one in a box, estimated ten barrels each, at three cents, thirty cents; mill rocks, twenty barrels, per pair, sixty cents; casks crockory, six barrels each, eighteen cents; casks sugar and bacon, five barrels each, fifteen cents; crates crockery, six barrels each, eighteen cents; tierces hams, two barrels each, six cents; bales India bagging, six barrels each, eighteen cents; coils rope, each, two cents. All lumber, salt or merchandise shipped on board vessels or steamboats, from other vessels, steamboats or rafts lying at the wharf, will be charged one wharfage only. Wharfage on cotton or other merchandise to be paid by the consignees; and when shipped, by the party taking the bill of lading. All goods and merchandise not enumerated above will be charged at corresponding rates. Vessels, lighters and steamboats lying at the wharf and not receiving or discharging freight, will be liable to pay for the use of the berth the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day, and give way to vessels or boats landing or discharging. The following articles of the regulations of the Apalachicola Chamber of Commerce will be strictly adhered to: Consigners of cotton shall be allowed three days for their cotton to remain on the wharf, and purchasers two days, without incurring extra wharfage. If, after notification by the wharfinger, they allow it to remain a longer time, they shall incur an extra wharfage of six and a quarter cents per bale for each and every twenty-four hours that it remains thereafter. Wood, lumber and other merchandise shall not be allowed to remain more than twenty-four hours on the wharf, without incurring an extra wharfage for each and every twenty-four hours thereafter. The above list regulates both landing and shipping wharfage: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent the Proviso. mayor and council of said city from changing the same from time to time, as they may see proper. (b) (b) Sec. 1, Chap. 1217, Act of 1861. Steamboats Whenever any steamboat shall take on goods or merchanloading vessels dise in the bay for any vessel and said steamboat shall come from the bay. to any of the wharves at Apalachicola for a harbor, or to its usual business, said steamboat shall be charged one wharfage, and the clerk of said boat shall furnish the wharfinger with a manifest of the cargo liable to wharfage. (b) Rates of wharfage, dockage and storage. Rates. SEC. 4. The several owners or occupiers of the wharves in Key West shall be allowed to charge, demand and receive the several rates hereinafter mentioned: for the wharfage or dockage of vessels lying at the wharves for the landing of produce and other goods, and for the shipping of the same, and for the storeage thereof, and no more, that is to say: anchors, three hundred weight and not over six hundred, twenty-five cents; anchors, one thousand weight, fifty cents; anchors over one thousand weight, seventy-five cents; kedge anchors, under three hundred weight, twelve and a half cents; barrels six and a fourth cents; boards per thousand superficial feet, fifty cents; bricks, per thousand, seventy-five cents; Braziletto, per ton, fifty cents; butter, per keg, not over forty pounds, two cents; bolts of canvas, osnaburgs, &c., per bolt, two cents; bags of coffee, pimento, sugar, cocoa and other bags of same size, per bag, five cents; butts, of one hundred and fifty to two hundred gallons, thirty seven and a half cents; boxes of soap, candles, chocolate, &c., per box, three cents; bales of cotton, twentyfive cents; bundles and other bales, per foot, one cent; boxes of dry goods, per foot, one cent; barrel staves and heading, per thousand feet, fifty cents; bacon, per thousand pounds, twenty-five cents; empty barrels, two cents; ballast, per ton, fifty cents; cheese, per one hundred pounds, four cents; corn, peas and oats, per bag of two bushels, four cents; coaches, and other four wheeled carriages, one dollar and fifty cents; riding chairs and chaises, fifty cents; chairs, sitting, two cents; coal, per ton, fifty cents; crates of crockery and earthenware, twenty-five cents; cables, chain, per ton, fifty cents; cordage, of all kinds, per coil, twelve and a half cents; cannon, of twelve cwt. and upwards, seventy-five cents; under twelve cwt., fifty cents; camboose, (large,) fifty cents; chests of drawers, twenty-five cents; demijohns, one cent; fire-wood, per cord, twenty-five cents; fustic, per ton, fifty cents; fish, per cwt., six cents; gun powder, per keg, six and a fourth cents; hemp, per one hundred pounds, three cents; hides, raw and tanned, per hundred, seventy-five cents; hoop poles, per thousand, fifty cents; hay, per bundle or bale, twenty-five cents; hogsheads and pipes of rum or liquor, twenty-five cents; hogsheads of sugar, one thousand pounds, and over, thirtyseven and a half cents; hampers, bottles, twelve and a half cents; hampers, potatoes, four cents; herring, per box, two cents; horns and tips, per hundred pounds, thirtyseven and a half cents; iron and other heavy goods, per (b) Sec. 2, Chap. 1217. Act of 1861. ton, fifty cents; jugs and jars, one cent; kegs of shot, paint, &c., of small size, three cents; kegs of bread, butter, flour, tallow, lard, &c., three cents; kegs of liquor, of smaller size than a quarter cask, four cents; logwood, per ton, fifty cents; lignum vitæ, per ton, fifty cents; lime, per cask, twelve and a half cents; lead, per ton, fifty cents; mahogany and other heavy wood, per hundred superficial feet, five cents; mules and horses, twenty-five cents; nails in kegs, three cents; onions, per hundred bunches, twenty-five cents; oranges, per thousand, fifty cents; pipe staves and heading, per thousand, seventy-five cents; pots, iron, three cents; pine apples, per hundred, twenty-five cents; potatoes in bulk, per hundred bushels, one dollar and fifty cents; rice, per tierce, twenty-five cents; raisins, per box, two cents; salt, in sacks, six cents; shingles, per thousand, twenty-five cents; grind stones, four cents; mill stones, twenty-five cents; sofas or settees, twentyfive cents; sugar, per box, eighteen and three-fourth cents; trunks of goods, of ordinary size, six and a fourth cents; tables, twelve and a half cents; wheel barrows, six and a fourth cents; tobacco, per hogshead, thirty-seven and a half cents. Any of the foregoing articles that shall be on the wharf longer than one week, shall be subject to the above rates of wharfage for each and every week, after the first week they shall so remain; and if they shall remain one day after the expiration of the week, they shall be charged with full wharfage. All goods stored may be charged double the rates of wharfage, and the proprietors of goods in all cases shall be at the expense of putting them in store, of stowing away and turning out of store; and all goods on storage, shall pay one month's storage; if they shall remain in the store one day after the expiration of the month, full month's storage may be charged; and after the expiration of the first month, half the above rates of storage only shall be charged. (c) Rates. CHAPTER 198. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 1. No person engaged as a trader shall use any measures or weights except those prescribed by Congress. 2. County Commissioners shall provide sealed weights and measures and have them stamped or branded. 3. Punishment for failure to comply with this law. 4. Trial of violators of this law. 5. Trial, how conducted; fees of Judge of County Court and Sheriff. 6. Weights and measures tested every two years. (c) Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Chap. 424, Act of Dec. 28, 1850. Standard weights and measures. Traders shall have weights and measures approved and stamped. Punishment for failing to comply with this act. Trial of offenders. Weights and SECTION 1. No person engaged as a trader in buying and selling, shall buy, sell or use any other weights or measures in trading than are made and used according to the standard prescribed by the Congress of the United States. (a) SEC. 2. The County Commissioners shall, at the charge of their county, provide sealed weights and measures according to the foregoing section, and deposit the same with the Judge of the County Court, with a stamp for all metal weights and measures; also brand, for all wooden weights and measures, with the letter F. (a) SEC. 3. Every trader in each county shall have his or her weights and measures brought to the Judge of the County Court and made to conform to the sealed weights and measures, and stamped or branded as approved, and receive a certificate of the same, and pay therefor such fee as may be fixed by the County Commissioners. (a) SEC. 4. Every trader and miller engaged in buying and selling with weights and measures, not tested according to the feregoing section, in the county in which he or she may live, in three months after public notice has been given by said Commissioners that said weights and measures have been provided, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than forty dollars, said fine to go to the county treasury. (a) SEC. 5. All persons engaged in trading after the foregoing notice has been given, shall be summoned to appear at a stated time to answer before the board, or a majority of said Board of County Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to try the said party or parties according to the provisions of this chapter; and the Judge of the County Court, for issuing the summons, and the sheriff, for serving the same, shall be allowed fees as prescribed for the same in the Circuit Court. (a) SEC. 6. All traders and millers shall have their weights and measures shall measures tested every two years, and receive a certificate of be tested every the same, and upon neglect to do so, shall be subject to fine as in the foregoing section. (a) two years. CHAPTER 199. WOLVES. Reward for killing wolf, bear, tiger or panther. 1. Reward for killing wolves, wolf. bears, &c.; by whom and when compensation allowed. 2. Price to be paid for scalp of 3. Penalty for frauds under this law. SECTION 1. It shall be and may be lawful for any person or persons killing any wolf, bear, tiger or panther in this State, on producing the scalp or scalps of either or all of such ani (a) Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, Chap. 1484, Act of Jan. 11, 1866. mals by him so killed to the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the county in which the same may have been killed, and on making satisfactory proof to the said chairman that he or they, said applicant or applicants, did kill any of the aforesaid animals, he shall be entitled to receive for his services such compensation as may be allowed by the Board of Commissioners of the respective counties, to be paid out of the county treasury, and an order from the chairman of said board to the county treasurer shall be a sufficient voucher for the payment of the same. (a) SEC. 2. County Commissioners may from time to time offer Price of scalp. a reward, not exceeding four dollars, for the scalp of every grown wolf, and not exceeding two dollars for every wolf supposed to be under three months old, proven to the satisfaction of said County Commissioners to have been destroyed within said county. (b) SEC. 3. If any person or persons shall wilfully violate the Penalty for preceding sections by demanding record for wolf scalps not frands. destroyed within the county where the same may be presented, or bring a wolf into any county, caught beyond the limits thereof, to be destroyed or killed in said county, for the purpose of entitling him to the reward, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace for said county, one-half to the use of the informer, the other half to the use of the county, to be added to said fund. (c) CHAPTER 200. WILLS. 1. Who to have power to make probate. wills; how to be executed. 2. Devise of realty, how revoked. 3. Devise of chattels, how revoked. 10. Requisites of nuncupative wills. 11. No testimony received after six months. 12. Letters testamentary, &c., 4. How wills admitted to pro- not to be granted until after bate. 5. Manner of contesting wills. 7. Exceptions as to feme covert. sixty days' notice. 13. Where wills to be deposited and recorded; certified copies to be evidence. 14. When certified copies of foreign wills to be received as evidence. SECTION 1. Every person of the age of twenty-one years, be- Wills of ing of sound mind, shall have power by last will and testament executed. lands, how (a) Sec. 1, Act of Feb. 11, 1832. (b) Sec. 3, Act of March 4, 1841. (c) Sec. 5, Act of March 4, 1841. |