a certificate thereof; and for all other except codfish and mackerel, the owner thereof shall pay the packer twelve and a half cents for every cask.

SECTION 1. All hoops made or brought into any town in this state and offered for sale as hogshead hoops, shall be at least one half thereof eleven feet and a half in length, and the other half not less than ten feet in length; and all those offered for barrel hoops shall hold out one with another at least seven feet and a half in length, and be of such size and substance as shall be sufficient for locking at the small end, and be otherwise suitable for immediate working.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of viewers of hoops to view all hoops that may be offered for sale in or exported from this state. SEC. 3. Whenever they shall view and find any hoops so offered for sale or to be exported fall short in the length aforesaid, or not of such size and substance as by this chapter is required, such hoops shall be condemned and sold at auction by the officer who shall view the same, within twenty-four hours after giving notice to the owner thereof: and one quarter part of the money arising from the sale shall be applied to the use of the town where they shall be sold, and the remainder, after paying unto the viewer of such hoops his fees, shall be returned to the owner.

SEC. 4. All hoops shall be put up in bundles, to contain twentyfive each, and be sold by net 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. 5. Any person who shall ship for exportation out of this state any hoops which have not been duly surveyed and allowed to be merchantable agreeably to this chapter, shall forfeit four dollars for every thousand so shipped; to be recovered by any viewer of hoops in the town where they shall be so shipped, one half to the use of the state, and the other half to the use of the viewer who shall sue for the same.

SEC. 6. 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.

SECTION 1. No person shall ship, sell or export from this state, any scythe stones in any quantity exceeding ten dozen, except in boxes of suitable size, which have been inspected and branded agreeably to the provisions of this chapter.

SEC. 2. The inspector of scythe stones shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond, with sufficient sureties, to the general treasurer, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars for the faithful discharge thereof.

SEC. 3. He may appoint one or more deputies, for whose acts he shall be responsible, and who shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of their office, and shall give bond to him therefor with sufficient sureties in the penal sum of three hundred dollars.

SEC. 4. All scythe stones, when the quantity exceeds ten dozen, shall be sorted or divided by the inspectors, or one of his deputies, into three different sorts, to be denominated No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. No. 1 shall consist of the best quality, and none less than nine inches in length.

No. 2 shall consist of the best quality of those less than nine inches in length, and the second quality more than nine inches in length.

No. 3 to consist of other qualities and sizes, but none except such as are merchantable.

SEC. 5. Such stones shall be packed by the officer inspecting them, in boxes, which shall be branded by him with the initials of his name, with the word "inspected," and with No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, as the case may be, designating the quality of the same.

SEC. 6. The manufacturer of scythe stones shall pay the inspector or his deputy, for inspecting, packing and branding, the sum of ten cents for each and every box containing not more than

twenty-five dozen which he may inspect, and twelve cents for each and every box containing more than twenty-five dozen.

SEC. 7. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale, or shall export or attempt to export at any one time, more than ten dozen of scythe stones before the same shall have been inspected, boxed up and branded as aforesaid, shall forfeit twenty dollars for each offence.

SEC. 8. Any inspector, or deputy inspector, who shall brand any scythe stones contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall forfeit five dollars for each box by him so branded.

SEC. 9. Any person who shall counterfeit the brand of any inspector or deputy inspector, or shall imprint any box of scythe stones with any inspector's or deputy inspector's brand without his consent, or shall fill any box which has before been filled and branded, without first causing the former brand to be cut out, shall forfeit twenty dollars for each offence.

SECTION 1. The city council of Providence shall, and the town councils of the several towns may, appoint an inspector of saleratus and bicarbonate of soda, for said city and towns respectively.

SEC. 2. The inspectors shall, whenever requested, test such article as shall be presented to them for inspection, and shall give his certificate to any person applying therefor, whether said article be impure or adulterated; and for every such certificate he shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars.

SEC. 3. The inspectors shall, whenever requested, make an analysis of any such article as may be presented to them for that purpose, and shall give his certificate to any person who shall apply therefor, of the result of such analysis, for which certificate he shall be entitled to the sum of ten dollars.

SEC. 4. Any person who shall sell saleratus or the bicarbonate of soda, which has been adulterated, and thereby rendered an impure article, shall forfeit not less than five dollars, nor more than ten dollars for each offence; together with the costs of testing and analyzing such impure article; one half of said penalty to the use of the city or town where such sale shall be made, and the other half thereof, together with the cost of testing and analyzing such impure article, to the use of the person who shall sue for the same. 22*

CHAPTER 107.

OF THE MEASURE AND SALE OF GRAIN, SALT AND SEA-COAL.

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 respectively 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 may appoint as many deputy measurers, and employ as many assistants as they may deem expedient, who shall be engaged to the faithful performance of their duties.

SEC. 3. The measurers shall measure or cause to be measured in their presence, and shall certify the measure of all corn, rye, oats, barley and other grain, and all shorts, salt and sea-coal, imported into such town from without the limits of this state that shall be sold and delivered from any vessel or water craft in said town, in any quantity exceeding twenty-five bushels at one sale, to one person or company.

SEC. 4. The measurers shall receive as compensation, for every bushel of grain, shorts, salt or sea-coal aforesaid, by them measured and certified, where the same shall exceed one hundred and fifty bushels, one half of one cent per bushel, and for any quantity less than one hundred and fifty bushels, one cent per bushel; to be paid by the vender upon the tender of the certificate of the measurers; the vender charging one half of the same to the purchaser, unless otherwise by them agreed; but no measurer shall be entitled to receive more than one half of one cent per bushel for measuring, when the quantity shall exceed one hundred and fifty bushels, delivered from the same vessel.

SEC. 5. The measurers or their deputies shall measure and certify as aforesaid, in all cases of sale and delivery of said articles in the towns where they are appointed, in quantity aforesaid, from any store or other places of selling in said towns, whenever a dispute shall arise between the seller and purchaser, if called on for that purpose by either party; for which duty they shall receive the same compensation, and payable in like manner as herein before provided.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall sell and deliver from any vessel or water craft in said towns, any such grain, shorts, salt or sea-coal, in a quantity exceeding twenty-five bushels, at one sale and delivery, without having the same duly measured and certified as aforesaid by one of the said measurers, or shall refuse to permit a measurer or deputy to measure such articles when sold from any water craft, shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence; one half thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the town where the offence shall be committed.

SEC. 7. Any measurer or any deputy measurer who shall, after being duly requested to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter, and after tender of his fees therefor, refuse or neglect so to do, shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence; one half thereof to the person who shall sue therefor, and the other half to the use of said town where such neglect occurred.

SEC. 8. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to or affect the sale, delivery or measuring of any of the articles aforesaid, in the sale whereof it shall have been contracted by the seller and purchaser, that the same shall be sold and delivered at customhouse measure; the same being measured under the inspection of a custom-house inspector; or to the sale of grain where the contract is that it shall be delivered by weight.

SECTION 1. The city council of the cities of Providence and Newport and the electors of the several towns, may annually elect a sufficient number of weighers of cotton.

SEC. 2. All cotton sold in this state, unless otherwise specially agreed, shall be weighed by the weighers so chosen.

SEC. 3. Said weighers shall carefully and correctly weigh, and record in a book to be kept for that purpose, the weight of each bale of cotton, with the marks and numbers of the bales, and shall mark upon every bale in plain figures the weight of the same, and shall make a certificate of each lot of cotton, which certificate shall specify the marks, numbers and weight of each bale.

SEC. 4. Such certificate shall be given to the seller of the cotton, and the weigher shall be paid for weighing and marking the same, on the delivery of the certificate, eight cents per bale; and for every duplicate certificate of not exceeding one hundred bales, fifty cents, and fifty cents for every additional hundred bales.