Chap. 205.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled 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.

Approved January 80, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact section nineteen hundred and
sixteen of the code, in relation to the duties of the sealer of weights
and measures, approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two, 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, steelyards, platform balances, weights, or measures,
for the purpose of buying and 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. In the cases mentioned in this section the sealer of
reughts and measures shall have double the amount of his regular

ees.

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