WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 359 



strengthened and improved as a result. The county clerks are no longer 

 designated sealers of weights and measures for their respective counties, 

 but instead the state sealer is authorized to create weights and measures 

 districts and appoint inspectors therein. The state sealer is given 

 specific jurisdiction over the track scales of the state; a net-contents-of- 

 container section was added to the law, as well as a general net weight 

 provision; and the penalty section has been greatly strengthened. 

 Another very important and excellent change is the abolition of the fees 

 formerly required to be collected by the state sealer of weights and 

 measures and his deputies for the work performed by them. 



Nebraska passed, at the last session of its legislature, a weights and 

 measures statute which is general in its terms but which fails to provide 

 a mandatory inspection of all weights and measures in commercial use 

 although it appears that it is possible to obtain this object under the 

 terms of the law. The deputy food, drug and dairy commissioner is the 

 deputy state sealer and to him and his assistants is entrusted the state 

 supervision provided for under the act. These officials may test weights 

 and measures but it does not seem that they are required to do so. Fees 

 are to be collected for the work done by them, these fees to be used in the 

 proper enforcement of the law. No other money is appropriated for this 

 purpose. In the counties the county clerks are designated sealers of 

 weights and measures. They are required to test apparatus only upon 

 request although they may do testing work at other times if they so 

 desire. Cities or municipalities are empowered to establish inspection 

 services but are not required to do so. On the whole it does not appear 

 that the act is a very satisfactory one, although it may be considered as 

 a forward step in legislation in this state. 



Up until 1911 Nevada was distinguished by the fact that it was the 

 only state having no laws whatever on the subject of weights and meas- 

 ures. In that year a very satisfactory law providing for a state inspec- 

 tion of apparatus under the supervision of the director of the Nevada 

 Agricultural Experiment Station was passed, and very wide powers were 

 given to the state officials. No local inspectors were provided for, and 

 rightly we believe, on account of the small population of the state and its 

 large territory. To make up for its neglect in the past, perhaps, the 

 legislation included in its provisions that original packages must be 

 labeled " in plain intelligible English words and figures with a correct 

 statement of the net weight, measure or numerical count of its contents." 

 By a subsequent amendment to section 23 of this act, the commis- 

 sioner appointed by the board of control of the Nevada Agricultural 

 Experiment Station was made sealer of weights and measures and 

 charged with the duties which formerly developed upon the director of 

 the said station. 



New Hampshire amended the penalty clause of the law in force, 

 making it much broader in its scope. They also increased the powers 



