Chap. 207.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1908, 1918, 1919, 1920
and 1923 of the Code of Virginia.

Approved March 15, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
nineteen hundred and eight, nineteen hundred and eighteen, ninteen hun-
dred and nineteen, nincteen hundred and twenty and nineteen hundred
and twenty-three of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

81908. Superintendent of weights and measures.—The register of
the land office shall be superintendent of weights and measures.

81918. Fees of sealers; how paid.—The sealer of weights and meas-
ures of the county or corporation for which the service is rendered shall
have five cents for every weight or measure, or scale beam and balance,
steelyard and the beams and poises thereof, tried, proved and sealed, or
defaced and destroyed by him, said sealers of weights and measures to
be paid by the owners, respectively, for whom the service is rendered.
§1919. How seals, et cetera, procured and paid for.—The seals and
other things necessary to enable them to perform their duty shall be
procured by the superintendent and the sealers. The cost of such as are
procured by the superintendent shall be paid on the order of the gov-
ernor, and of such as are procured by a sealer of weights and measures,
shall be a charge on the county or city by whose court he was appointed.

§1920. How weights and measures sealed at any time.—A person
may call at any time upon the superintendent, in Richmond, or a sealer
of weights and measures in his county or corporation, to try and prove
the weights and measures of such person, he paying therefor the regular
fees provided for in section nineteen hundred and eighteen.

§1923. Penalties for using weights and measures not sealed.—If any
person shall sell or offer to sell any commodity, buy or keep for buying
and selling, or for weighing packages for shipment, any scales, balances,
steelyards, weights or measures not sealed according to law, he shall for-
feit for each offense a sum not exceeding ten dollars.