Chap. 280.—An ACT for the better protection of consumers of coal.
Approved March 25, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That hereafter
when a dealer or dealers in coal in cities or towns in this State, where
public scales are kept, may be requested by a person or persons buying
as much as five hundred pounds of coal at any one time to weigh such
coal upon the public scales, said dealer or dealers shall do so upon such
request, the person or persons buying the coal to pay the fee for weighing
same, if such coal shall be of proper weight, otherwise such fee shall be
paid by said dealer.

2. Any dealer refusing to weigh or to have weighed such coal as re-
quired in the above section, or to pay such fee for weighing the same as
herein above set out, shall be fined the sum of five dollars for each
offense: provided, however, that the provisions of this act shall not apply
to anv dealer or consumer of coal resident in the city of Lynchburg.

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