Chap. 78.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1582 of chapte!
22 of the code of Virginia, in relation to the government of the
Virginia military institute.

Approved February 18, 1890.

]. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia
That section one thousand five hundred and eighty-two o!
chapter twenty-two of the code of Virginia be amendec
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1582. Every cadet received on state account, and whc
shall have remained in the institute during the period o:
two years, or more, shall act in the capacity of teacher ir
some school in this state for two years after leaving the
institute, and such cadet shall be required tq discharge sard
obligation as teacher within the three years immediately after
leaving the institution, and said cadet shall report in writeng to
the superintendent of the institute, on or before the first day of
June of each year succeeding the date of his leaving the insti-
tution, until he shall have discharged fully said obligation to
the commonwealth; and every cadet so received on state account,
in said institute, on reporting for duty and matriculating shall
be required to enter into a bond, payable to the Virginia mult-
tary institute, in a sum sufficient to cover the board and tutteon
that may be expended in hts behalf as such state cadet; and
unless the said cadet shall fulfil his said obligation as aforesard,
he shall be deemed to have violated his contract, and authority
18 hereby given to the institution to proceed by law for the col-
lection from said cadet of such amount as may be necessary to
cover so much of his board and tuttion.as may proportionately
be due from his failure to teach the whole or any part of the
said two years; and no cadet executing such bond shall be per-
mitted ta plead infancy or the statute of limitation in bar of
recovery of such debt: provided, the board of visitors may
excuse said cadet from teaching in such cases as they may deem
right and proper, and, provided, further, if said cadet shall
teach two years or any part thereof in any public school of this
commonwealth for the term prescribed for any year by the legal
authority of public schools, he shall be deemed to have fulfilled
his obligation to the state tmposed by this section.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

CHapP. 79 —An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1913 of the
code of Virginia, in relation the standard of cord measure and
of agricultural products.

Approved February 18, 189v.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That section nineteen hundred and thirteen of the code of
Virginia of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§1913. A cord contains one hundred and twenty-eight
cubic feet, being eight feet long, four feet high, and four
feet wide, or the equivalent thereof, and in all measure-
ments of wood, tan-bark, or other things subject to such
measurements, the foregoing shall be the true and legal
standard, any usage, by-law, or ordinance of any corpora-
tion, railroad, or other company to the contrary notwith-
standing. And in all sales by weight of the agricultural
products hereinafter named, the number of pounds per
bushel, as stated in the following schedule. shall be the
true and legal standard: Barley, forty-eight pounds;
ans (white), sixty pounds; blue-grass seed, fourteen
unds; buckwheat, fifty-two pounds; clover seed, sixty
unds; corn (shelled), fifty-six pounds; corn (in the
r), seventy pounds; corn-meal, fifty pounds; dried
ples, twenty-eight pounds; dried peaches (peeled),
‘ty pounds; dried peaches (unpeeled), thirty-two
unds; flax seed, fifty-six pounds; hemp seed, forty-
urpounds ; herds’ grass (or red top) seed, twelve pounds;
ungarian grass seed, forty-eight pounds; lime (un-
acked), eighty pounds; malt, thirty-eight pounds; mil-
t seed, fifty pounds; oats, thirty-two pounds; onions,
ty-seven pounds; onions (top sets), twenty - eight
unds; orchard grass seed, fourteen pounds; osage
ange seed, thirty-four pounds; peanuts, twenty-two
minds; peas (black-eyed), sixty pounds; potatoes
irish), fifty-six pounds; potatoes (sweet), fifty - six
muunds; plastering hair, eight pounds; rye, fifty-six
punds; salt, fifty pounds; stove coal, eighty pounds;
mothy seed, forty-five pounds; turnip, fifty-five pounds ;
heat, sixty pounds.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

HAP. 8 —An ACT to prevent the selling of unwholesome meat.

Approved February 18, 1890.

Whereas it is believed that unwholesome meats are be-
ing offered for sale in this commonwealth; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall not be lawful to offer for sale, within the
limits of this state, any fresh meats (beef, veal, or mut-
ton) which shall have been slaughtered one hundred miles
or over from the place at which it is offered for sale,
until and except it has been inspected and approved as
hereinafter provided.

2. The county court of each county and the corporation
court of each city of this state shall, in their respective
counties and cities, appoint one or more inspectors of
fresh meats on the petition of not less than twenty citi-
zens; and it shall be the duty of said inspectors to inspect
and approve or condemn all fresh meats offered for sale
in this state which has been transported one hundred
miles or more from the place at which it was slaughtered.

3. And for all fresh meats so inspected said inspector
shall receive as his compensation one cent per pound, to
be paid by the owner of the meat.

4. It shall be the duty of any and all persons, firms,
or corporations, before offering for sale in this state, fresh
meats, which under the provisions of this act are required
to be inspected, to apply to the fresh meat inspector of
the county or city where the same is proposed to be sold,
and have said meat inspected; and for a failure so to dao,
or for offering to sell any fresh meats, condemned by said
inspector, the person, firm, or corporation so selling or offer-
ing to sell shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered before
any justice of the peace of the county orcity where the vio-
lation occurs; provided, that in cities of fifteen thousand
inhabitants or more one-half of the fees of inspectors
shall be paid into the state treasury, and provided, further,
that nothing in this act shall apply to the counties of
Accomac and Northampton.

5. The said inspectors, before discharging the duties
herein imposed, shall take and subscribe an oath before
the court appointing them to faithfully discharge said
duties, and the several courts are respectively empowered
to remove, for cause, any inspector and to appoint another
or others instead.

6. This act shall be in force from and after the first day
of March, eighteen hundred and ninety.