Public Law 54–74

That section nine of the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended, so as to road as follows:

“Sec. 9.

That no person shall use for buying or selling, or for weighing

Use of unsealed weights, etc., forbidden.

freight or express matter, any weights, measures, scales, or other instruments, unless the same shall have been examined and approved by the sealer or assistant sealer of weights and measures. The fact

Certificates of inspection.

and the date of such examination and approval and the period for which such examination and approval shall hold good shall be certified to with the seal of the sealer of weights and measures. Such certificates shall be attached in a conspicuous place to the weights, measures, scales, or other instruments so examined and approved; and such certificate shall be valid only for such time as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall provide in the schedule of fees hereinafter provided for: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent at any time the

Proviso.

Examination.

examination and condemnation of any weights, measures, scales, or other instruments that may be found defective. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall prescribe the amount of tolerance to be

Tolerance.

allowed by the sealer of weights and measures, and all weights, measures, and balances that do not conform to the standards for weightsFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 74, 75. 1896. and measures in this Act provided for within the limit of tolerance so allowed may be seized by the sealer of weights and measures, and when so seized shall be destroyed by him, and a record of the same shall be duly

Penalty.

entered on the books of his office. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section, or the use of any weights, measures, scales, or other instruments described in this section, before the payment of the fees fixed by the said Commissioners for examinations, shall render the person so failing or using liable to a tine of not more than twenty dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense, to be recovered in the police court of the District of Columbia; and the said court may make a further sentence that the offender be imprisoned in the District jail for any period not exceeding six months until the payment of such line and costs.”

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