Chap. 741.—An ACT for the appointment of an inspector of staves
for the city of Norfolk.

Approved March 4, 1892.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That it shall the duty of the judge of the corporation court
of the city of Norfolk, upon the request of the councils of
the city of Norfolk, at the April term thereof, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, and at every said term every four
years thereafter succeeding, to appoint an inspector of
staves, to hold office for the term of four years from the
first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for the
term of four years thereafter, and until his successor be
appointed and qualified.

2. It shall be the duty of said inspector to inspect and
classify all slack barrel staves received in the city of Nor-
folk to be used in the manufacture of flour and produce
barrels in the city of Norfolk or county of Norfolk, for
which service he shall be entitled to receive a fee of thirty
cents per thousand from the consignee of said staves.

3. All said slack barrel staves shall be put up dry and
in bundles of fifty staves each. Each stave shall average
four inches wide, three-eights of an inch thick and not less
than twenty-seven and a half inches nor more than twenty-
eight and one-half inches long, and such shall be classified
as number one. All those possessing two but not three of
the above requirements shall be classified as number two.
All those possessing but one or none of the above require-
ments shall be classified as number three. And it shall
be the duty of said inspector to issue a certificate to said
consignee, or other party requiring the same, setting forth
the grade and quantity of said staves.

4. It shall be the duty of every consignee receiving any
shipment of said slack barrel staves to notify the inspector
of the place of said staves, for inspection, and for failure
to so notify said inspector he shall be liable for the sum
of one dollar for every thousand he shall so fail to have
inspected, and the said inspector for failure to promptly
perform the duties required by this act shall be liable to
the party aggrieved in the like sum of one dollar per thou-
sand for each thousand he so fails to inspect.

5. The said inspector shall give bond with security be-
fore the corporation court of the city of Norfolk,a penalty
of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance by him of the duties of his office under this act,
and for the payment of any penalties herein prescribed.

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