Every person who shall sell, or offer or expose for sale or exchange, any of the articles enumerated in this section, knowing or having reason to believe that the measurement of articles so sold, or offered or exposed for sale or exchange, is less than the measurement required by this section, except in cases where there is a special agreement to sell by some other measurement, shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars. Every manufacturer of cotton sewing thread, and every person engaged in putting up such thread on spools, or in packages of one pound weight or less, intended for sale, shall, before the same is offered for sale, affix to, or impress upon, each spool or package, a label or stamp designating its weight or length in yards. Every such manufacturer, or person engaged as aforesaid, who shall neglect to affix to, or impress upon, each spool or package such a label or stamp, or shall, with intent to deceive, affix to, or impress upon, or suffer to be affixed to, or impressed upon, any such spool or package, a label or stamp specifying that it contains a greater number of yards, or a greater quantity of thread by five per cent. than it does contain, shall be fined five dollars for each of such spools or packages; and every trader who shall offer for sale such thread, knowing or having reason to believe that it is falsely labeled or stamped as regards length or quality, shall be subject to the same fine. Every person who shall sell, or offer for sale, by the skein, any sewing silk manufactured in this country, unless each skein shall, consist of twenty threads, each two yards long, shall be fined seven dollars. Penalty for noncompliance Cotton thread, quan tity of, to be designated (1813) Sec. 48978 ing silk by skein (1901) bottles tested and No person or corporation buying milk or cream and making sec. 48 payments therefor based on the results of the Babcock test shall, Babcock milk-test use any bottle or pipette for the purpose of determining the rela- stamped tive or proportional amount of butter fat of any milk or cream, unless such bottle or pipette shall have been tested and stamped as accurate by the Connecticut agricultural experiment station or by the Connecticut agricultural college. Every person or corporation that shall use any bottle or pipette for the purpose named in this section, unless the same is stamped as herein prescribed, shall forfeit to the use of the state the sum of five dollars for each bottle or pipette so used. The State's attorneys in the several counties shall collect forfeitures under this section. (1881, 1888) Sec. 4888 Standard of time Pub. Acts, 1911, ch. 134, P. 1406 Sec. I Net weight of foods to Reasonable variations permitted The standard of time for the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich shall be the standard of time for this state. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale, food in package form, unless the net quantity of the contents be plainly and conspicube marked on packages ously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count; provided, that reasonable variations shall be permitted, and that allowances shall be established by rules and regulations made from time to time by the dairy and food commissioner and the director of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station, shall be subject to the penalties provided in chapter 255 of the public acts of 1907. Sec. 2 Terms "person" and "food" defined Sec. 3 Penalty not to affect The terms "person" and "food" as defined in Chapter 255 of the public acts of 1907, shall apply to the provisions of this act, provided, the term "food" as used herein shall not include confectionery and shelled nuts when offered for sale in packages at a price not exceeding ten cents each. This act shall take effect from its passage, but no penalty shall sale of food prepared 18 be enforced for any violation of the provisions of section one arising from the sale of food prepared and enclosed in package form prior to eighteen months after the passage of this act. months prior to passage Pub. Acts, 1909, ch. 199, p. 1123 Sec. I on print butter No person shall, by himself, his servant or agent, sell or offer Weight to be marked or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell any print butter unless the package or wrapper containing the same shall have conspicuously printed thereon, in letters or figures not less than one-half inch in height, in plain Gothic type, the net weight of the butter contained therein. Sec. 3 Pub. Acts, 1911, ch. 248. D. 1547 weight Ticket to be delivered weight Every person who shall violate any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. All coal sold, except in accordance with a written agreement Coal to be sold by with the purchaser otherwise, or offered for sale, in this state, shall be so sold or offered for sale by weight. No person, firm, or corporation shall deliver any coal unless such delivery is accomwith coal, stating panied by a delivery ticket and a duplicate thereof, on which shall be distinctly expressed, in ink or other indelible substance, in pounds, the weight of the coal contained in such vehicle or receptacle, together with the name of the seller and the name of the purchaser of such coal. One of such tickets shall be surrendered, upon demand, to the sealer of weights and measures, for his inspection, and such ticket, or, when the sealer desires to retain the original ticket, a weight slip issued by the seller, shall be delivered to the purchaser, or his agent or representative, at the time of the delivery of such coal, and the other ticket shall be retained by the seller. If the purchaser, or his agent, takes such coal from the place of purchase, a delivery ticket, showing the actual number of pounds delivered, shall be given to the purchaser or his agent, at the time of delivery. Any person who shall violate any provision of this act shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. All sales of milk or cream shall be made by wine measure. Every person who shall violate any provision of section ten, eleven, or twelve of this act shall be fined seven dollars for each offense. Sec. 14 Notice of secs. 1-12 to A printed notice containing sections one to twelve, both inclusive, of this act, and this section, shall be conspicuously posted be published in all public places, creameries, or factories where milk is received or sold. Power and duty of to milk and cream in The dairy and food commissioner shall have power to enforce Se the provisions of the preceding sections of this act, and when the dairy commissioner as necessary evidence is submitted by the Connecticut agriculture spection experiment station that any of said provisions has been violated, he shall make complaint to the proper prosecuting officer. The dairy and food commissioner, or his authorized agent, shall have the right to take samples of milk or cream from any producer or vendor, upon tender of the market price thereof, and he shall seal and mark a duplicate sample of such milk or cream and leave the same with such producer or vendor. Sec. 4591 Gen. Stats., 1902 "Concentrated com mercial feeding stuff" The term "concentrated commercial feeding stuff" shall include linseed meals, cottonseed meals, pea meals, cocoanut meals, gluten meals, gluten feeds, maize feeds, starch feeds, sugar feeds, dried defined brewers' grains, malt sprouts, hominy feeds, cerealine feeds, rice meals, oat feeds, corn and oat chop, corn and oat feeds, ground beef, or fish scraps, mixed feeds, provenders, bran, middlings, and mixed feeds made wholly or in part from wheat, rye, or buckwheat, and all materials of a similar nature, but shall not include hays and straws, the whole seeds nor the unmixed meals made directly from the seed of wheat, rye, barley, oats, Indian corn, buckwheat, or broom corn, nor feed ground from whole grain and sold directly from manufacturer to consumer. Every lot or parcel of concentrated commercial feeding stuff, sold, offered or exposed for sale shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place on the outside thereof a legible and plainly printed statement, certifying the number of net pounds of feeding stuff contained therein, the name, brand, or trademark under which the article is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer or importer, * Sec. 45. Certificate of weight and quality DELAWARE. (1893) Rev. Code, Title 9, Sec. 1 Standard The standard weights and measures of the United States, now deposited in the secretary's office at Dover,' are the true and legal Ch. 67, p. 535 f. f. standards for this state; and the duplicates thereof, deposited with the several prothonotaries, are true duplicate standards by which all weights and measures, used within this state, shall be tried and regulated. A regulator of weights and measures for each county, shall be appointed by the governor, for the term of four years. The said regulator shall be sworn, or affirmed to perform the duties of his office faithfully and impartially. He shall within thirty days, from his appointment, give bond to the state, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office; and if such bond be not filed in the secretary's office within the time aforesaid, his commission shall be void. Sec. 2 County regulators Bond Time for regulating weights and measures He shall next year, and every second year thereafter in the months of September and October, appoint a time in three of the most public places in each hundred of his county for regulating by and with the duplicate standards aforesaid, without charge, any weights and measures, scales, balances, or other weighing apparatus, that may be brought to him; and shall stamp the same plainly with the letter S, and the initial of his county. He Duties of regulator shall give twenty days' notice of these appointments by five Regulation of weights advertisements in the hundreds respectively. He shall in like and measures manner at all other times, regulate such weights, and measures, scales, or balances, as may be brought to him, or of which he may have knowledge. And he shall diligently inquire for all unstamped weights and measures, scales and balances, which are used within the county for buying or selling. Sec. The regulators shall be paid for their services annually, one Compensation hundred and seventy-five dollars in New Castle county, one hundred and fifty dollars in Sussex county, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars in Kent county, to be allowed by the levy court of the respective counties, and paid as other county charges. 1 State chemist made custodian of standards. (See Laws of 1909, ch. 63, p. 116.) |