CHaP. 185.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section. 1916 of the
code in relation to the duties of the sealer of weights and
measures.

Approved February 9, 1892,

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

§ 1916. The said sealer for each county or corporation
shall once, in every three years, go to the houses, stores, or
shops of every person within the town or county (by
whose court he was appointed) who uses balances, steel-
yards, platform balances, weights, or measures for the
purpose of buying or selling, and who has failed for three
years to bring or send them in at the times and places
notified by him, and also to all hay-scales and platform
balances kept for public use, and there try and prove such
scales, balances, steelyards, weights, or measures, and seal
or deface and destroy them, as may be proper: provided,
that the sealer of weights and measures appointed for the
city of Richmond shall be required once in each year to
go to the houses, stores, or shops of every person within
his city who uses such balances, steelyards, platform bal-
ances, weights, or measures, and who has failed for one
year to bring or send them in at the time and place noti-
fied by him.

2. In the cases mentioned in this section the sealer of
weights and measures shall have double the amount of
his regular fees. :

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