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section. All of these latter amendments seem to be excellent ones and 

 do much to strengthen the weights and measures law of the state. 



Oklahoma during the years 1910-1911 revised the list of legal 

 weights per bushel, required certain commercial feeding stuffs packed 

 in sacks to bear a statement of the net weight of the contents, made 

 some changes in the coal mining law, and standardized the weight of 

 flour and meal put up in barrels and sacks and required the weight to 

 be branded on the same. As in the case of Kansas, flour in cloth sacks 

 may be branded with the gross instead of the net weight. 



Oregon passed one general and four special laws relating to weights 

 and measures at the 1913 session of its legislature. The general law 

 establishes a state department of weights and measures under which the 

 state treasurer (who it appears from the context is subsequently referred 

 to as the state sealer) is required to appoint a deputy state sealer and has 

 authority to appoint such assistant and clerical aid as may be necessary 

 to place in practical operation the provisions of the act. He is further 

 authorized to procure such standards and other equipment as may be 

 necessary for the proper execution of the duties under the law and to 

 procure and use only such standards as have been passed upon as correct 

 by the National Bureau of Standards and to have the state standards 

 tested by that bureau once in ten years. The county courts of the several 

 counties are required to appoint competent sealers for such term and at 

 such compensation as they may decide ; but such sealers may be removed 

 from office by the deputy state sealer for incompetency, or neglect of 

 duty. The county sealer is required to visit at least once in each year 

 every place of business where weights and measures are kept for the 

 purposes of trade. The law places no restriction upon the rights of cities 

 to enforce ordinances providing for the sealing of weights and measures 

 or regulating the sale of commodities, provided such ordinances are not 

 in conflict with the standard adopted by the state. It is made unlawful 

 in selling any commodity by weight or measure to include the weight or 

 measure of anything other than the weight or measure of the commodity 

 itself. The law, while lacking in some respects, contains a number of 

 excellent provisions and may in general be said to be a good one. The 

 four special laws referred to above, provide as follows: One establishes 

 a weight of 100 pounds, inclusive of the weight of the sack, as the stand- 

 ard weight of a sack of potatoes, unless otherwise specified by contract; 

 another stipulates that in selling farm or range products where no 

 special agreement is made to the contrary, no deduction shall be made 

 for the weight of the sack containing the products ; another refers to the 

 sale of butter, and requires among other things that this product when 

 offered for sale in rolls, prints or squares, shall be plainly marked " Six- 

 teen ounces, full weight," or " Thirty-two ounces, full weight," and shall 

 contain the number of ounces so marked ; and the fourth law amends a 

 former act and places all track scales used by railroad companies under 



