except that every bushel of charcoal shall contain twenty-seven hundred and forty-eight cubic inches. When sold by weight the bushel of charcoal shall weigh twenty pounds when commercially dry; the barrel of flour, one hundred and ninety-six pounds; and the barrel2 of potatoes, one hundred and seventy-two pounds.

Sec. 4784, as amended by Pub. Acts, 1923, ch. 185, p. 3609.-The bushel of the following commodities shall weigh3--

Any person who, himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another, shall sell or offer for sale any of the above-mentioned commodities at a less weight per bushel than therein specified shall be fined or imprisoned or both as provided in section 2310 of the general statutes.

Sec. 4785 (1917). Weight of sand and gravel.-A cubic yard of sand shall contain twenty-six hundred pounds, and a cubic yard of gravel twenty-eight hundred pounds.

Sec. 4789 (1911). Coal to be sold by weight; ticket to be delivered with coal, stating weight; penalty.-All coal sold, except in accordance with a written agreement with the purchaser otherwise, or offered for sale, in this State, shall be sold or offered for sale by weight. No person, firm or corporation shall deliver any coal unless such delivery is accompanied 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

2 See footnote, p. 20, relative to the Federal standard barrel.

A slight change has been made in the arrangement for convenience of reference.

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 section shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 2, ch. 238, p. 1336.

Sec. 4794 (1911). Sale of food in package form; weight; marking.— Every person who shall sell or offer for sale food in package form, unless the net quantity of the contents be plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package in terms of weight, measure or numerical count, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2446: Provided, Reasonable variations shall be permitted, and 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. The definitions of the terms "food" and "person as given in sections 2437 and 2448 respectively, shall apply to the provisions of this section: 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.

Pub. Acts, 1921, ch. 142, p. 3137.

Sec. 1. Clinical standard thermometer established.-A clinical standard thermometer supplied by the State and certified by the National Bureau of Standards for use by the State, shall be the State clinical standard thermometer.

Sec. 2. Additional standard thermometers may be supplied.-In addition to the State clinical standard thermometer, there shall be supplied by the State such additional clinical standard thermometers as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, to be known as official clinical standards. Such thermometers shall be verified by the director of the bureau of laboratories of the State department of health upon their initial receipt and at least once in each six months thereafter, by direct comparison with the State clinical standard thermometer. The official clinical standard thermometers may be used in making all comparisons of clinical thermometers under test.

Sec. 3. Correct clinical thermometer defined.-The commissioner of health shall promulgate tolerances and specifications for clinical thermometers. A correct clinical thermometer shall be one which conforms to the standard thereby established and to the specifications promulgated under the provisions of this act, within the tolerances established as aforesaid.

Sec. 4. Correct thermometers to be sealed by the State department of health. Whenever the State department of health inspects and tests a clinical thermometer which is offered for sale and finds it to be correct it shall seal or mark it or otherwise certify it as correct. Whenever it inspects and tests such a clinical thermometer and finds it to be incorrect it may condemn, seize and destroy it; or it may

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return it to the owner upon a satisfactory guarantee that it will not be sold or used within the State.

Sec. 5. Thermometers submitted to and approved by the State department of health to be marked.-When a representative sample of a clinical thermometer has been submitted by the manufacturer thereof to the State department of health and is approved, it shall assign a designating mark or number which shall thereafter be permanently affixed by the manufacturer to all clinical thermometers of that particular kind made by him. Such clinical thermometers as are sealed by the manufacturer shall be marked with the name, initials or trade-mark of the manufacturer, and by such other marks as the department may require. The commissioner of health shall have power to revoke the authority given by him to any manufacturer under the provisions of this section upon proof that the authorized seal or designating mark has been affixed to a thermometer which does not conform to the sample approved by him.

Sec. 6. Penalty. Any person, who, by himself or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of another person, shall keep for the purpose of sale, offer or expose for sale, or sell any clinical thermometer which has not been sealed, marked or certified as correct by the State department of health or by the manufacturer as aforesaid shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 2, ch. 191, p. 1057.

Sec. 3630 (1911). Inspection of meters.-Upon petition of any person, and the payment by such person of a fee of one dollar for each meter, the commission [public utilities commission] shall cause to be inspected any electric, gas or water meter used in measuring electricity, gas or water supplied to such petitioner. The company supplying electricity, gas or water through such meter shall reimburse the petitioner for said fee if such meter be found to be more than two per centum fast, in the case of a gas meter, or four per centum fast, in the case of an electric or water meter, and shall not again use such meter until corrected and approved by the commission. The commission shall cause to be approved every electric, gas or water meter in which the error does not exceed two per centum for gas meters or four per centum for electric or water meters, and shall cause the same to be stamped with some suitable device and the date of approval.

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 2, ch. 235, p. 1327.

Sec. 4755 (a1822). Shad intended for market; weight per barrel and half barrel; number of fish per barrel and half barrel.-All pickled shad, intended for market, shall be split and well-cleansed, pickled in strong brine, and shall remain in such brine at least fifteen days before they shall be put up for market, and shall be put in barrels or half barrels, the barrels containing two hundred pounds each and the half barrels one hundred pounds each of fish well packed, with a sufficient quantity of salt and filled with strong brine; shad so put up shall be of three classes, to wit: Class number one, to consist wholly of shad well saved, free from rust or any defect, with the head and tail cut off, and backbone taken out, each barrel to contain not more than eighty shad, and each half barrel not more than

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forty; class number two, to consist wholly of those well saved, trimmed, pickled and prepared for packing, in the same manner as class number one, each barrel to contain not more than ninety shad, and each half barrel not more than forty-five; class number three, to consist of such as will not answer for either of the former classes, well saved, with the heads taken off. Every inspector, who shall inspect and brand the same, shall designate by each brand the quality, weight and kind of fish contained in each barrel and half barrel branded by him, the year in figures when it shall have been inspected, the word "Conn.," his own name and the name of the town where said fish was put up. Every inspector of fish, who shall inspect or brand any package of shad imported into this State, shall be fined five dollars.

Sec. 4756 (1820). Regulations concerning barrels for fish.-All barrels and half barrels, containing fish, shall be well made of seasoned red oak, white oak or chestnut timber; each tierce shall be made with twelve hoops; each barrel shall be of the capacity of from twentyeight to thirty gallons, and each half barrel of the capacity of fifteen gallons and a half.

Sec. 4758 (1822). Fraudulent altering of contents of cask; penalty.Every person who, after the inspection and branding of a cask containing fish shall fraudulently take out or change any part of the contents thereof or put into it any fish not inspected, shall be fined twenty dollars.

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 2, ch. 236, p. 1329.

Sec. 4764 (a1893). Fertilizers, weights to be marked.-Every person who shall sell, offer or expose for sale, any commercial fertilizer or manure, except stable manure, and the products of local manufacturers of less value than ten dollars a ton, shall affix conspicuously to every package thereof a plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand or trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, the place of manufacture, and the chemical composition of the fertilizer, expressed in the terms and manner approved and usually employed by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. If any such fertilizer be sold in bulk, such printed statement shall accompany every lot and parcel sold, offered, or exposed for sale.

Pub. Acts, 1925, ch. 196, p. 3982.

Sec. 2. Commercial feeding stuff, net weight to be marked.-Each lot or parcel of concentrated commercial feeding stuff sold, offered or exposed for sale shall have conspicuously affixed thereto a plainly printed statement certifying (1) the number of net pounds of feeding stuff contained therein, (2) the name, brand or trade-mark under which the article is sold, (3) the name and address of the manufacturer or importer,

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 2, ch. 237, p. 1333.

Sec. 4786 (1869). Cotton thread, quantity of, to be designated.— 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 centum 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.

S53. 4787 (1813). Sale of domestic sewing silk by skein.-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 fine seven dollars.

Sec. 4788, as amended by Pub. Acts, 1923, ch. 128, p. 3566. Babcock milk-test bottles not to be used unless stamped by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station; penalty.-No person or corporation buying milk or cream and making payments therefor based on the results of the Babcock test shall use any bottle or pipette for the purpose of determining the relative or proportional amount of butterfat of any milk or cream, unless such bottle or pipette shall have been tested and stamped as accurate by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at New Haven. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be fined not less than seven nor more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than six months or both. The dairy and food commissioner shall be charged with the enforcement of this act.

Gen. Stats., 1918, Vol. 1, ch. 22, p. 169.

Sec. 358 (1842). Duties of public weighers.-Every public weigher, upon payment of his lawful fees, shall accurately weigh any heavy or bulky article of merchandise brought to him for that purpose, and sign and give a certificate of its weight to the person bringing the

same.

Sec. 359. Scales and fees.-Towns in which public weighers are appointed shall make such regulations relative to the scales and other apparatus to be used by such weighers as they may deem necessary for the public protection and convenience, and prescribe the fees, not exceeding twenty cents for each weighing, to be paid to said weighers, half by the seller and half by the purchaser, or may delegate to the selectmen the powers and duties specified in this section; and the rate of fees so established shall be recorded in the town records, and shall not be changed during the time for which such weighers are appointed.

Sec. 360 (a1854). Penalties.-Any public weigher who wilfully neglects to weigh any article legally brought to him for that purpose, and to give a certificate of the weight thereof according to law, except in a matter in which he has an interest, or who shall give a certificate of the weight of any article in which he has an interest and every person selling any heavy or bulky article of merchandise, usually sold by weight, who shall, upon the request of any purchaser