An Act regulating the assize of Lime Casks, and the Inspecting SECTION of Lime. SECTION 5. Penalty for selling or exporting unless branded. 6. Penalty for fraud of inspector. 7. Penalty for counterfeiting brand, &e. 8. Penalties how recovered. 9. Inspector to prosecute for breaches. It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows: SECTION 1. All stone lime which shall be burnt in this state, shall be offered or exposed to sale in casks of the following dimensions, to wit: each cask shall be twenty-seven inches and three quarters of an inch in length between the heads, and the heads eighteen inches in diameter, and of sufficient bulge to contain thirty-six gallons, and hooped with not less than eight good hoops; and each cask shall be well filled with lime. SEC. 2. The various qualities of lime shall be designated by the following names, viz: "jointa," "first quality," "second quality," "refuse ;" and shall also be designated with the names of the present owners of the ledges of rock from which the same shall be burnt; and be so branded that the name of the owner of the ledge and the quality of the lime shall form one brand, and be made by one impression; which brand shall be used by the inspector or his deputies only. Each cask shall also be branded with the word "inspected," and with the initials of the name of the person branding the same. SEC. 3. The general assembly shall annually appoint one general inspector, with power to appoint one or more deputies; which deputies shall hold their offices until the next election of general inspector, notwithstanding the death of such general inspector may happen before said election, unless removed by the general inspector. And it shall be the duty of such inspector or his deputies to see that the casks are of lawful size, and properly filled and branded as provided in the first section of this act. And before proceeding in the duties of his said office, the general inspector and each of his deputies shall take his engagement before a justice of the peace for the due performance thereof. SEC. 4. The burner of lime shall pay the inspector or his deputy, for inspecting and branding, filling not included, the sum of two cents for each and every cask he may inspect, and for filling the same, two cents in addition. SEC. 5. If any person shall offer for sale in or export from this state, any cask of stone lime burnt therein which shall not have been branded as required by this act, he shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars. SEC. 6. If any inspector or deputy inspector shall brand any lime cask contrary to the provisions of this act, he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each cask so branded. SEC. 7. Every person who shall counterfeit the brand of any inspector or deputy inspector appointed as aforesaid, or shall imprint any cask of lime with his brand without his consent first had and obtained in writing, or shall fill any cask a second time which has before been filled and branded, without first causing the former brand to be cut out, shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars for every cask so branded or so filled. SEC. 8. Penalties incurred under this act shall and may be recovered by action of debt, before any court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 9. The inspector and each of his deputies are hereby enjoined to prosecute for every breach of this act which may come to their knowledge. An Act to regulate the Measuring of Grain, Salt and Sea Coal. SECTION 1. Certain towns shall elect measurersother towns may. 2. Measurers to be engaged-may ap poirt deputies-grain, &c., imported and sold from vessel, to be measured and certified if above certain quantity. 3. Measurers' fees. 4. To measure if sold from store, in case of dispute-fees. SECTION 5. Penalty for selling from vessel without being measured-proviso, unless measured by custom-house inspector. 6. Penalty on measurer for refusal or neglect. 7. Grain sold by weight exempted from act. It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows: SECTION 1. The towns of Newport, Bristol, Warren, Warwick, East-Greenwich, North-Kingstown and North-Providence shall, and any other towns may, at any annual meeting for the choice of town officers, elect in each of said towns not exceeding two persons, to be measurers of grain, salt, shorts and sea coal. The city council of the city of Providence at the time of the election of city officers, shall elect at least two such measurers for said city. SEC. 2. Such measurers shall be engaged as other town officers are; and they shall measure or cause to be measured in their presence, and shall certify the measure of all corn, rye, remainder, after paying thereout unto the viewer of such hoops his fees, shall be returned to the owner. SEC. 3. All hoops shall be put up in bundles, to contain twenty-five each, and be sold by nett hundreds: when the officer viewing shall find any fraud in the bundles by their not containing the full number, every such bundle shall be condemned as forfeited, to be sold by the viewer in manner aforesaid; the money, after paying the viewer his fees, shall be by him lodged in the town treasury of the town where they are sold for the use of the town. SEC. 4. If any person shall ship for exportation out of this state, any hoops which have not been duly surveyed and allowed to be merchantable agreeably to this act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of three dollars and thirty-three cents for every thousand so shipped; to be recovered by any viewer of hoops in the town where they shall be so shipped, in an action of debt; one half to and for the use of the state, and the other to and for the use of the viewer who shall sue for the same. SEC. 5. Viewers of hoops shall receive at and after the rate of twenty-five cents for every thousand they shall view and examine; and if the hoops shall be adjudged good and merchantable, the buyer shall pay the same. An Act to prevent Frauds in the Tare of Butter Firkins or Tubs. SECTION 1. Butter firkins to be branded-in what manner. 2. No butter to be offered for sale in firkins, &c., unless branded. SECTION 3. Penalty for offering for sale in firkin, &c., not branded-penalty for offering for sale in firkins, &c., over marked or branded. It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who shall make or bring into this state any butter firkins or tubs, shall brand or mark each one of the same with the weight thereof, and with the initial letters of his name, in a plain and enduring manner, before he offers the same for sale. SEC. 2. No person shall offer for sale any butter by the firkin or tub, unless each tub and firkin shall be branded or marked as afore provided. SEC. 3. Every person who shall offer for sale any butter firkin or tub before the same shall be marked or branded as required in the first section of this act, or any butter by the firkin or tub, in any firkin or tub not marked or branded as aforesaid, or in any firkin or tub which shall weigh more than the mark or brand on it, allowing two pounds additional in case, with the butter in it, it weighs less than sixty pounds, and three pounds if over sixty, for the brine absorbed by the same, he shall forfeit the sum of one dollar; to be recovered by action of debt, one half to and for the use of the state, and the other to and for the use of the person who shall sue for the same. An Act regulating the Assize of Cider Barrels. Assize of cider barrels-penalty for exposing for sale in casks less than the assizepenalty how recovered. It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows: If any cider or cider beer be exposed to sale in any cask containing less than thirty-one and a half gallons, the same together with the cask shall be forfeited; the one half to him who will inform or sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the state, to be recovered before any court proper to try the same; and it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, on complaint to him made, to issue his warrant for seizing within his county and securing any cask and liquor declared to be forfeited by this act. An Act substituting Nett Weight for Gross Weight, and ascertaining the Weight of certain Articles. SECTION 1. Nett weight substituted for gross. 3. What parts of cattle purchased or 4. Penalty on weigher, &c., not accounting for all parts weighable. SECTION Providence, &c., once in six months -in other towns once a year. 7. Penalty for weighing, unless hay- 8. Weight of meal per bushel. 10. 5. Weighers to be annually appointed-11. to be sworn-duty of-fees of. Potatoes per bushel. 12. Penalties how recovered and appro6. Hay-scales to be tried and sealed-in priated. It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows: SECTION 1. In all contracts and sales of or relating to hay or any other article usually sold by weight, such contracts and sales shall be deemed to be made for nett weight and not for gross weight; and the custom heretofore in use of buying or selling one hundred and twelve pounds for a hundred, and two thousand two hundred and forty pounds for a ton is hereby abolished; and hereafter two thousand pounds shall be taken and considered to be a ton, and all parts thereof in equal proportion. SEC. 2. Every person who shall sell and deliver, and any person who shall weigh any hay or make out a bill of the weight thereof, except by nett weight, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars. SEC. 3. The following parts of all neat-cattle purchased by the hundred weight or slaughtered by any person, such person having contracted to account for the same to the owner or seller of the same, shall be denominated weighable, viz: the whole of the several four quarters, the hide, horns and tallow. SEC. 4. Any person slaughtering or weighing any neatcattle, and being obliged to account for the same to the owner or seller thereof as aforesaid, who shall not weigh and account for all those parts of such cattle denominated weighable as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every offence the sum of twenty dollars. SEC. 5. The board of aldermen of the city of Providence shall annually, in the month of April, appoint not less than six, and each town council in this state two persons, for the purpose of weighing all neat-cattle slaughtered in their respective towns, unless otherwise specially agreed between the seller and buyer. These officers shall take the oath prescribed for town officers, and shall weigh all parts of said cattle made weighable by the third section of this act, deducting therefrom for green weight not more than one pound for every hundred pounds of the weight thereof. The fees of such weigher shall be twenty-five cents per head for all cattle weighed; one half part of which shall be paid by the seller, and the other by the buyer thereof. SEC. 6. Every person who shall keep hay-scales or platform balances for public use, shall cause the same to be tried and sealed, if in the city of Providence or in either of the towns of Newport, Bristol or Warren, at least once in every six months, and if in any other place at least once in every year, by a sworn sealer of weights and measures. SEC. 7. Every person who shall keep hay-scales or platform balances for public use, or who shall weigh or suffer to be weighed in such scales or balances any article of merchandize, unless said scales or balances shall have been tried and sealed, as provided for in the preceding section, shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence the sum of twenty dollars. SEC. 8. In the sale of Indian meal or rye meal by weight, |