Pub. Gen. Laws, 1904, vol. 2, art. 48, p. 1349 (1900) Every manufacturer, company or person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale or for distribution in this state any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as defined in the following section of marked on packages of this subtitle, used for feeding farm live stock and poultry, shall Sec. 82 Net weight to be feeding stuff Sec. 83 Sec. 84 Pub. Gen. Laws, 1904, art. 48, p. 1329 Sec. 20 (1864) in warehouses affix to every package of such feeding stuff, in a conspicuous place, on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in the package sold or offered for sale, the name or trade mark under which the article is sold, the name of the manufacturer or shipper, the place of manufacture * * * The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as here used, shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the entire grains of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat, rye and buckwheat, brans or middlings, not mixed with other substances, but sold separately, as distinct articles of commerce, nor pure grain ground together. * * * The term concentrated commercial feeding stuff, as here used, shall include linseed meals, cotton seed meals, cotton seed hulls, pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried brewers grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cereline feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chops, ground beef, fish or animal meals, all patented or trade-marked foods, and all other materials of similar nature not included within the preceding section of this subtitle. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause each hogshead of tobacco before it is uncased, to be weighed, and the tobacco in Weighing of tobacco each hogshead, and the cask itself, to be separately weighed in his presence, or that of his weighing clerk, in scales with weights of the proper standard; and the weight of each hogshead as first weighed, and the gross and net weight of the tobacco therein contained after inspection, to be entered in a proper book, with sufficient reference to its numbers and marks as previously recorded. It shall be the duty of each inspector to cause to be marked marked on hogshead with a marking-iron on the side of each hogshead of tobacco under his charge, the warehouse, number and weight of said hogshead, and the net weight of tobacco contained therein, and to cause the warehouse number of such hogshead to be marked with blacking on each head thereof. Sec. 21 Net weight to be (1902) Laws, 1902, ch. 124, Laws That the Mine Inspector shall also be an inspector of weights p. 158; Code Pub. Local and measures at all mines now or hereafter opened in said counties [Allegheny and Garrett], and shall weigh several cars of coal Weighing of cars of mined therein once every two months on the scales of the different mines (or when requested to do so especially by any miner or Art. 1, sec. 202 Art. 12, sec. 156 coal operator), in order to test the accuracy of said scales, and the State shall supply said Mine Inspector with the required weights, Mine inspector made and apparatus for testing scales, and to do any other act he may measures deem necessary to ascertain whether the coal be justly weighed at said mine; and it shall be the duty of every person acting as weigh- Weighing of coal master for the owner, lessee or agent of said mines, before entering upon the performance of his duty as weighmaster or checkweighman, or before making any report, to make oath before some justice of the peace, in the proper county, that he will perform the duty of weighmaster or check-weighman as prescribed by this Act, at such mine, with honesty and fidelity, and will keep a true and accurate account of all the coal so weighed by him, and will credit and allow the full weight, and no more, of coal in each mining car, to the party or parties who mined the same at the rate of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds per ton, and all fractions thereof be counted in hundred weights, a copy of which oath shall be posted up in said weigh-office where such coal is weighed. But the said oath of weigh-master or check-weighman shall be understood and construed as only requiring said weighmaster or check-weighman to allow and credit said fraction of tons in whole hundred weights (cwts.) in manner following, namely: Where the odd pounds in any mining cars in excess of the whole hundred weight therein, shall equal or exceed fifty-six pounds, the said weighmaster or check-weighman shall credit such miner with a whole hundred weight for such odd pounds, but where such odd pounds, less than a whole hundred weight (cwt.) shall be less than fifty-six pounds, then such weighmaster or checkweighman shall give such miner no credit whatever for such odd pounds; and it shall be the duty of said weighmaster and of any check-weighman to perform the several acts and matters prescribed in said affidavit. Provided that every car when weighed Cars, how weighed shall be uncoupled and stopped on the scales; but the Mine Inspector may make special regulations as to the stopping of cars when necessary. The Mine Inspector shall have power to examine the weighing sheets on which the weight of the miner's cars are registered, and the monthly aggregate of coal weighed on such scales, and shall compare such aggregate monthly weighings with the "manifest" or "shipping" reports of the operators, and thus determine from time to time whether the coal is accurately weighed. That it shall be lawful, however, notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, in relation to weighmaster and the weighing of coal, for any lessees, owner, individual or agent of any mine in said counties of Allegany and Garrett to contract with the miners to mine coal therein or therefrom by measurement; and it shall also be lawful Art. 1, sec. 203 Art. 12, sec. 157 of weighings Art. 1, sec. 204 Art. 12, sec. 158 Weighing of coal Art. 1, sec. 205 for any owner, lessee or agent of any mine in said counties, at or in which not more than ten miners are employed at any one time, to contract with the miner or miners employed therein by the day, week or month instead of by weight, and in all such cases when the compensation of the miners by their contract or agreement fixed by the day, week or month, be ascertained by the cubic yard or other measurement, as hereinbefore provided, it shall not be obligatory upon such owner, lessee or agent of such mine to provide any weighmaster or weigh the coal mined in such shaft or mine, or taken therefrom, but the mine cars used in any such mine worked by shaft shall be measured by a sworn measurer, and said owner, lessee or agent shall cause the capacity of each of said mining cars to be plainly stamped or branded thereon. That at any time upon the request of a majority of the miners Check-weighmaster then employed in any coal mine in said counties of Allegany or Garrett, the agent, lessee or operator of such coal mine shall permit said miners (but at their own expense) to provide and keep in the said weigh house at said mine, at the scales kept thereat, for such length of time as such miners may require, a check-weighmaster, who shall have the right at all times to be present when the coal mined at each mine is being weighed by the weighmaster of said mine, and to examine the scales thereof, and to take and keep a full statement of the weight of each mining car load of coal, as shown by the said scales when the coal is being weighed thereon by said weighmaster, and upon the discovery by such check-weighmaster of any wilful violation of any of the provisions of this Act by the weighmaster employed at such mine, it shall be the duty of such check-weighmaster to immediately lay all such information before the State's Attorney of the county in which such weigh house is situated, or the Mine Inspector, for their action upon the same. ter Art. 1, sec. 206 Duty of operator That it shall be the duty of every person acting as weighmaster Duties of weighmas- in any of the said mines, to keep in ink or indelible pencil a list or statement of the number of mining cars, and the weight of coal in car mined each day, and the persons mining the same, and place and keep said list at the weigh house, where said coal is weighed, where the parties interested therein may inspect it, which list shall be kept for reference and inspection by all persons interested therein for at least thirty days time. And it shall be the duty of every operator to provide correct and accurate scales, upon which all coal mined in said mine shall be weighed in the state in which it is mined, before the same shall be dumped or taken from the mining cars, in which the miners have loaded the same; and no operator shall dock any miner in excess of five hundred pounds (cwts.) on one car, and it shall be the duty of the operator to cause the average weight of each empty car used at any such mine to be plainly stamped on the outside of each car. MASSACHUSETTS The avoirdupois pound shall bear to the troy pound the relation, of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. The hundred weight shall contain one hundred avoirdupois pounds, and the ton twenty hundred weight. The barrel shall contain thirty-one and one-half gallons, and the hogshead two barrels. The barrel of flour, measured by weight, shall contain one hundred and ninety-six pounds, the barrel of potatoes one hundred and sixty-five pounds, and the barrel of sweet potatoes one hundred and fifty pounds. The legal and standard barrel for cranberries shall measure not less than twenty-five and one fourth inches between the heads, inside; the diameter of the head shall be not less than sixteen and one fourth inches, including the bevelled edge; the outside bilge circumference shall measure not less than fifty-eight and one half inches; the thickness of the staves shall be not greater than four tenths of an inch. The legal and standard crate for cranberries shall measure seven and one half inches, by twelve inches, by twenty-two inches, inside, exclusive of any interior partition or support, and shall have an interior capacity of one thousand nine hundred and eighty cubic inches; but any square or oblong crate or box of different form, but of as great interior capacity, shall be considered a legal and standard crate. It shall be lawful to use for the sale and delivery of cranberries, square or oblong packages which contain one half crate or one quarter crate: provided, that such packages have an interior capacity, exclusive of any partition or support, of nine hundred and ninety and four hundred and ninety-five cubic inches, respectively. No barrel, crate, one half crate or one quarter crate, intended for the sale or delivery of cranberries, except of the standard measure herein specified and plainly marked with the words "Massachusetts Standard Measure", shall be manufactured or sold. No person shall so mark any barrel or other package so used or intended to be used unless its interior capacity is as great as the capacity herein specified for such package. Rev. Laws, 1902, vol. 1, ch. 62, p. 583 Sec. I Avoirdupois to troy pound Hundredweight Ton Sec. 3, as amended by Acts, 1911, ch. 397 -flour -sweet potatoes Acts, 1903, ch. 408, 1911, ch. 380 as amended by Acts, Sec. I rel, Size of cranberry barcrate; marking, etc. Enforcing of act Every barrel, crate, one half crate or one quarter crate used for Sec. 2 the sale or delivery of cranberries shall be of the Massachusetts standard measure, and shall be marked as required by this act. No person shall use any barrel, crate, one half crate or one quarter crate for such sale or delivery the capacity of which is less than that of the corresponding standard package herein provided for. Penalty for violation Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. The sealers of weights and measures of the several cities and towns shall cause the provisions of this act to be enforced. Sec. 3 Acts, 1911, ch. 380 It shall be lawful to use for the sale and delivery of cranberries Use of certain size packages containing one, two or four pounds of cranberries net net weights to be weight: provided, that said net weight is plainly stamped on the top or side of each package. packages authorized, marked (1840, 1855) Sec. 5 In this Commonwealth a bushel of cracked corn or feed or any Weight of bushel of meal except oatmeal shall be fifty pounds, and a cental shall be one hundred pounds. meal. Cental (1692-3, 1705-6, 1730-1, 1799, 1800, 1803, 1847, and measures Capacities The following weights, measures and balances now in the treasury; a set of dry measures consisting of one-half bushel, Standard weights eight, four, two, and one quarts; a set of liquid measures consisting of one gallon, two and one quarts, one pint, two and one gills, a set of apothecaries' liquid measures consisting of one gallon, four, two, and one pints, twelve, eight, six, four, three, two and one ounces, four, two, and one drams, ten and five minims; a set of avoirdupois weights consisting of fifty, twenty-five, twenty, ten, five, four, three, two and one pounds; eight, six, four, three, two and one ounces, eight, six, four, three, two and one drams; a set of troy weights consisting of five thousand, three thousand, two thousand, one thousand, five hundred, three hundred, two hundred, one hundred, fifty, thirty, twenty, ten, five, three, two and Weights 1 For convenience in printing a slight change has been made in arrangement of these articles. |