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Sec. 1011

Chief inspector to proards, etc.

weights, and accounts kept of the same; provided, that not more than one person shall have such right of access, examination, and inspection of scales, measures, and accounts at the same time.

The chief mine inspector shall procure from the State, at the cure from State stand-State's expense, a full and complete set of standards, balances, and other means of adjustment such as are necessary in the comparison and adjustment of scales, beams, and other necessary apparatus to be used for a just weighing of coal and other materials at the mines according to the state standard of weights; and it shall be the duty of said inspector to examine, test, and adjust, as often as occasion demands, all scales and other apparatus used in weighing at mines.

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The mine inspector, miners employed in the mines, and the owner of the land or persons interested in the rental and royalty of such mines, shall at all proper times have full right of access to scales used at said mines, including bank book in which the weight of coal is kept, to examine the amount of coal mined, for the purpose of testing the accuracy thereof.

The chief mine inspector shall procure for the State at the State's expense a full and complete set of standards and other equipment, such as, in his opinion, are necessary in the testing of scales, beams, and other necessary apparatus to be used for a just weighing of coal and other material at the coal mines according to the State standard of weights; and it shall be the duty of said inspector to examine, test, and cause to be adjusted as often as occasion demands, all scales and other apparatus used in weighing coal at coal mines.

ALASKA

Carter's Ann. Codes,

1900

Using false weight,

That if any person shall knowingly use any false weight or measure, and shall thereby defraud or otherwise injure another, Sec. 69 or shall knowingly mark or stamp a false weight or measure or etc. false tare upon any cask or package, or shall knowingly sell or offer for sale any cask or package so marked, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than one year, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

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ARIZONA

A false weight or measure is one which does not conform to the standard established by the laws of the United States of America. Every person who uses any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, by which use another is defrauded or otherwise injured, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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Stamping casks, etc.,

Every person who knowingly marks or stamps false or short Sec. 499 weights or measures, or false tare, on any cask or package, or falsely knowingly sells or offers for sale any cask or package so marked, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Full

In all sales of coal, hay, and other commodities usually sold by Sec sight of all artithe ton or fractional parts thereof, the seller must give to the pur- cles must be given chaser full weight, at the rate of two thousand pounds to the ton; and in all sales of articles which are sold in commerce by avoirdupois weight, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, at the rate of sixteen ounces to the pound; and any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(1808) Bashford's Compiled

Laws, 1864-1871, ch.

LXXXIII, p. 577

Standard weight of

That it is hereby established that throughout this Territory a bushel of corn shall consist of 54 pounds; a bushel of wheat of 60 pounds; a bushel of barley of 45 pounds; a bushel of rye of 56 Sec. 1 pounds; a bushel of oats of 32 pounds; a bushel of small white bushel beans of 60 pounds; a bushel of other beans of 55 pounds; one Hundredweight and hundred pounds shall constitute one hundred weight and 2,000 pounds shall constitute one ton.

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Special agreements

In all transactions, the foregoing shall be the standard of Sec weights in this Territory, unless otherwise especially agreed upon by the parties interested.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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Rev. Stat., 1901, title
Sec. 336

IO, P. 1243

Falsifying weight of

Every person who in putting up in any bag, bale, box, barrel, or other package, any hops, cotton, wool, grain, hay, or other goods, usually sold in bags, bales, boxes, barrels or packages by weight, puts in or conceals therein anything whatever for the purpose of packages; penalty for increasing the weight of such bag, bale, box, barrel or packages, with intent thereby to sell the goods therein, or to enable another to sell the same, for an increased weight, is punishable by fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

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