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in the stores every year; he is supposed to do this. If you had 

 that inspection in Maine the places where I have found a broken 

 scale with a pound weight kept on it and where I found a 125 

 pound scale five pounds out of the way, in your State, would 

 have been found by the sealer. I inquired if they had a sealer. 

 They said yes, but they did not know who he was. You have 

 not sufficient supervision of your weights and measures. It is 

 going to cost money, but the money is coming back to you two 

 fold because you are going to have honest weights and meas- 

 ures if you have the right officials. Be sure that you appoint 

 your officials and I hope you will not attempt to put a sealer 

 into every single little town, but will have a district of towns. 

 We have a sealer in every town and some of them haven't work 

 enough to do to keep the rust off from their weights. They 

 get $5.00 a year and they do not do a thing. If you are going 

 to start in Maine, start right. If you put a group of towns 

 into the hands of one man he will have something to do and 

 you can afford to pay him something for doing it. 



