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weights and measures that are not or cannot by him be made 

 conformable to the standard ; shall visit the houses of inn- 

 holders, the warehouses and stores of merchants, and the 

 dwelling houses of such other inhabitants, as neglect to send 

 to him their weights and measures, and there prove and seal 

 the same ; and every sealer, neglecting any dut}^ herein 

 required of him, and every person neglecting or refusing to 

 have his weights and measures proved and sealed as aforesaid, 

 shall forfeit ten dollars, to be appropriated as in section four. 



Sec. 8. In all cases of weighing, the vibrating steelyard 

 invented by Benjamin Dearborn, or the vibrating steelyard 

 invented by Benjamin Dearborn and improved by Samuel 

 Hills, or the Fairbanks Scale, may be used ; but before being 

 offered for sale, or used, each beam and the poises thereof 

 shall be sealed by a public sealer of weights and measures, 

 appointed according to law. 



Sec. 9. All measures, by which fruit and other things, 

 usually sold by heaped measure, are sold, shall be conform- 

 able in capacity and breadth, to the public standard ; and if 

 any person otherwise sells or exposes to sale any such fruit 

 or other thing, anj' goods or commodities whatever by any 

 other beams, Aveights, or measures than those proved and 

 sealed as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for each offence not less 

 .than one dollar nor more than ten dollars ; one-half to the 

 nise of the town, and the other to the sealer, or to him who 

 ^-prosecutes therefor. 



Sec. 10. Such articles as are sold or exchanged in any 

 market or town in this state by gross or avoirdupois weight, 

 ■shall be sold or exchanged as follows ; twenty-five avoirdupois 

 pounds constitute one quarter ; four quarters, one hundred ; 

 and twenty hundreds, one ton ; and all other articles usually 

 sold by decimal hundred. 



Sec. 11. The fees of sealers of weights and measures for 

 trying and proving beams, weights and measures by the town 

 standard, shall be as follows, to be paid by the person for 

 whom the service is rendered : for a platform or hay scale 

 ^weighing six thousand pounds or more, one dollar; for one 



