REPORT DEPUTY STATE SEALER OF WEIGHTS & MEASURES. I47 



cerely hope I may have the pleasure of meeting with you again 

 sometime in the future. 



J. C. Connors. 



I am very glad to be here today and see the sealers of Maine. 

 It brings me back to the time, about seven years ago, that I 

 went practically through the State of Maine and talked to every- 

 body who would listen to me about weights and measures. I 

 did not find many sealers here except in the larger cities. I 

 came here to the State House, of course, and I was anxious to 

 see the standards. I talked with Mr. Wiswell down in the 

 Treasurer's office. He said, "Yes, we have standards," and he 

 took me down cellar and showed me the old relics the state 

 had possessed since 1840. Then I went around to (the dififerent 

 towns, and if I could not find a sealer I went to see the Mayor 

 or the Board of Selectmen. I would sit down and talk weights 

 and measures until they would put me out. I found many peo- 

 ple who said, "They are not giving short weight or measure in 

 the State of Maine ; we do not need sealers." Then I would 

 take a fresh hold and start again. 



The testing of scales and putting his seal on them is the 

 lightest part of the duty of the sealer. He ought to find out 

 whether the man is using the scales properly or not. When 

 you are doing that you are doing some good. Of course the 

 laws in the State of Maine that you are working under now are 

 light laws, but they follow the line of the laws that have been 

 passed in all parts of the country ; and the sealers in other parts 

 of the country are looking to Maine to see how these laws are 

 working. They have been through their initiation and have 

 been fairly well organized. But Maine is pretty near the last 

 of the New England states to get organized, with the exception 

 of New Hampshire. 



I expected to see Dr. Fischer here because I know he wanted 

 to tell you a good deal about the work in other parts of the 

 country; to show you how much the work had amounted to, 

 and how much the inspectors of weights and measures had 

 travelled throughout the country. In Washington at this time 

 they are looking for a good deal of national legislation. They 

 want legislation there which will affect the whole countrv so 



