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every neglect, to be recovered by any one who shall prosecute therefor.

marks.

§ 704. When any person in this state puts up for Faiso sale any articles in casks or packages, and marks or stamps on such cask or package the weight of its contents, with a view to sell the same, such mark or stamp shall express the true weight thereof, and also the true tare of such cask or package; and if any person knowingly marks or stamps false or short weight, or false tare, on any cask or package, or sells or offers it for sale so marked, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, for every cask or package, to any person aggrieved, and is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Laws of 1857, ch. 725.

testimony.

§ 705. No surveyor shall give evidence, in any Surveyor's case depending in any court or before arbitrators, respecting his surveys or measurements, unless he makes oath, if required, that the chain or measure used by him was conformable to the standards which were at the time the standards of the state.

CHAPTER II.

Time computed by new style.

Leap years.

The year.

TIME.

SECTION 706. Time computed by new style.

707. Leap years.

708. The year.

709. The month.

710. The week.

711. The day.

The provisions of this chapter, except the last two sections, are from 2 R. S., 1; Ib., 182, § 9.

§ 706. Time is computed according to the Gregorian or new style; and the first day of January, in every year, passed since 1752, or to come, shall be reckoned as the first day of the year.

§ 707. The several years 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other future hundredth year, of which the year 2000 shall be the first, except only every fourth hundredth shall not be deemed leap years,

year,

but

shall be common years of 365 days; and the years 2000, 2400, 2800, and every other fourth hundredth year, from the year 2000 inclusive, and also every fourth year, except as first above mentioned, which, by usage in this state, is considered a leap year, shall be deemed leap years, consisting of 366 days.

§ 708. The term year means a period of three hundred and sixty-five days; a half-year, one hundred and eighty-two days; a quarter of a year, ninety-one days; and the added day of a leap year

and the day immediately preceding, if they occur in any such period, shall be reckoned together as one day.

§ 709. Except for the purpose of computing The month interest, the term "month" means a calendar not a lunar month, unless otherwise expressed. For the purpose of calculating interest, a month shall be considered the twelfth part of a year, and as consisting of thirty days; and interest for any number of days less than a month shall be estimated by the proportion which such number bears to thirty.

§ 710. A week consists of seven consecutive days. The week.

§ 711. A day is the period of time between any The day. midnight and the midnight following.

CHAPTER III.

MONEY.

SECTION 712. Accounts to be kept in decimal currency.

713. Judgments and executions.

From 1 R. S., 6.

Accounts to

be kept in decimal

§ 712. All accounts of public offices and judicial proceedings, and all accounts between persons in currency. this state, shall be kept in the decimal currency of the United States.

and executions.

§ 713. All judgments and executions shall be Judgments computed in dollars and cents, rejecting lesser fractions.

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Tariff of auction duties.

ARTICLE I.

AUCTION DUTIES.

SECTION 714. Tariff of auction duties.

715. Mode of sale.

716. Articles sold at private sale by auctioneer liable to duty. 717. Articles exempt.

The provisions of this article are from 1 R. S., 1067, § 1 to 5.

§ 714. All personal property at any time exposed to sale by public auction, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, shall be subject, each time it is struck off, to duties, to be paid by the seller, and calculated on the sums at which the same is struck off, at the following rates:

1. All wines and ardent spirits, foreign or domestic, at the rate of one dollar on every one hundred dollars;

2. All property imported from any place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, at the rate of fifty cents on every one hundred dollars;

3. All other things which are the production of any foreign country, at the rate of seventy-five cents on every one hundred dollars.

sale.

§ 715. Goods sold by auction shall in all cases Mode of be struck off to the highest bidder. They are in all cases subject to the duties, whether actually sold, or bid in. But this section shall not be construed to render valid any sale that would otherwise be deemed fraudulent and void.

on

or

§ 716. All dutiable articles which are sold commission by an auctioneer, by a copartner clerk of an auctioneer, or by a person in any way connected in the auction business or in auction sales with an auctioneer, whether sold by auction or private sale, are subject to duties.

Articles

sold at pri vate sale by

auctioneer

liable to duty.

exempt.

§ 717. The following articles are exempt from Articles duties:

1. Ships and vessels;

2. Utensils of husbandry, horses, neat cattle, hogs and sheep;

3. Articles of the growth, produce and manufacture of the United States, except wines and distilled spirits;

4. Property belonging to the United States or to this state;

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