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time of sale, the vendor shall disclose to the purchaser the mixture aforesaid, and if not mixed, its quality; and if such disclosure shall not be made as aforesaid, the vendor shall forfeit twenty-five dollars to the use of the person suing for the same.

CHAPTER 112.

OF THE INSPECTION, SALE, AND KEEPING OF INFLAMMABLE
AND EXPLOSIVE FLUIDS.

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SECTION 1. Every person who shall keep or offer for sale, in any place or building within this state, petroleum oil, or any product thereof, or shall keep or offer for sale any mixture of naphtha, or inflammable fluids for illuminating purposes, that will flash, or inflame at a less temperature, or fire test, than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, or that has not been inspected, tested, and the cask, barrel, or package containing the same, marked with the degrees Fahrenheit at which the contents thereof will flash or inflame in manner provided by section two of this chapter, and every person who shall empty any petroleum oil or any product thereof, or any mixture of naphtha, or inflammable fluids, which shall be at any time brought into this state, out of the original packages in which it is brought into this state, until the same has been inspected by an inspector of kerosene, shall be fined, not less than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than six months, and the name of every such person shall be published in some newspaper published in, or nearest to, the town where such offence was committed.

SEC. 2. The inspector of kerosene shall inspect and test all petroleum oil, kerosene, and coal oil, and their compounds, and any product or mixture thereof, which may be manufactured, offered for sale, or stored in this state, and each inspector shall legibly mark upon every cask, barrel, or package, so tested by him, the degrees Fahrenheit, at which the contents thereof are inflammable, or will flash or explode, by cutting, branding, or painting the same thereon, together with his official brand or stamp, and the initials of his name. The owner of kerosene or other fluids made liable to inspection by the provisions of this chapter shall pay to the inspector who shall inspect the same, the sum of one dollar, for every hour employed in such inspection.

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Petroleum oil, how kept for sale or stored.

Quantities not exceeding 150 gallons;

ten barrels;

one hundred barrels ;

exceeding one hundred barrels.

Inspectors to examine prem

ises where stored, &c.

Petroleum,

&c., not to remain in open air or on sidewalk, &c., except, &c.

Penalty for violating pro

visions of chap

SEC. 3. Petroleum oil, or any of its products, or the compounds thereof, that are not inflammable, or which do not flash at a less temperature, or fire test, than one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit, may be kept upon sale, or stored in this state, in the following manner only, and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter named, namely: in quantities of not to exceed one hundred and fifty gallons, in any store or warehouse; in quantities exceeding one hundred and fifty gallons, and not exceeding ten barrels, in cellars at least four feet below the surface of the street, properly ventilated, and under buildings, no part of which is occupied as a dwelling-house; in quantities exceeding ten barrels, and not exceeding one hundred barrels, in warehouses constructed of brick, stone, or iron, especially adapted to that purpose; in quantities exceeding one hundred barrels, in warehouses constructed of brick, stone, or iron, situated more than fifty feet distant from the nearest adjacent building or wharf; or, if within fifty feet of the nearest building or wharf, there shall be a wall of brick or stone between said warehouse and any such building or wharf, at least ten feet high and sixteen inches thick; and all such warehouses shall be so constructed or arranged, that no overflow or escape of the articles therein stored, beyond the limits thereof, can possibly take place.

SEC. 4. The inspectors of kerosene shall examine, from time to time, all premises, within their respective towns, wherein petroleum oil, or any product thereof, or any mixture of naphtha, or inflammable fluid for illuminating purposes is stored or kept, and the owners and occupants of all such premises shall allow any inspector of kerosene, at all times, to enter upon and inspect such premises.

SEC. 5. In no case shall petroleum oil, or any product thereof, or any mixture of naphtha, or inflammable fluid for illuminating purposes, be allowed to remain in the open air, or on any sidewalk, beyond the front line of any building, or in any street, for a longer time than is actually necessary for the storage, shipment, or delivery of the same, nor between the time of sunset of any one day and sunrise of the following day.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall violate any of the foregoing provisions of this chapter, or shall knowingly or wilfully alter, efface, or ter, or altering, destroy any official mark or brand, after the same has been placed by the inspector of kerosene, or his deputies, upon any barrel, cask, or package, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months.

&c., official brand.

Penalty for putting petroleum, &c., not inspected, into branded casks.

How inspectors of petroleum, kerosene, &c., may be appointed, and storage thereof regulated.

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SEC. 7. Every person who shall, for the purpose of sale, put or cause to be put into any cask, barrel, or other package, which shall have been branded or marked by an inspector of kerosene, in manner herein prescribed, any petroleum oil, kerosene, or coal oil, or naphtha, or inflammable fluid, or any mixture, product, or component thereof, or of either thereof, intended for sale, the same not having been first tested by said inspector, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months; and the name of every person convicted of any violation of this section shall be published in some newspaper published in or nearest to the town where such offence was committed.

SEC. 8. The town councils of the several towns, and the city councils of the cities of Newport and Providence, shall appoint annually one or more inspectors of petroleum, kerosene, and coal oil, their products, compounds, and components, and may limit and pre

scribe by ordinance the place or places, and manner, of storing or safe keeping, and the quantity to be stored in any one place, and sale within their respective towns and cities, of the said articles, their products, compounds, and components, and other like explosive substances, notwithstanding any provisions herein before contained, and may inflict fines and penalties for the violation of such ordinances, not exceeding, for any one offence, two hundred dollars and six months imprisonment.

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cattle.

SECTION 1. The following parts of all neat-cattle purchased by Weighable the hundred weight or slaughtered by any person, such person having parts of neatcontracted to account for the same to the owner or seller of the same, shall be denominated weighable, viz.: the whole of the several four quarters, the hide, horns, and tallow.

SEC. 2. Every person slaughtering or weighing any neat-cattle, and being obliged to account for the same to the owner or seller thereof as aforesaid, who shall not weigh and account for all those parts of such cattle denominated weighable as aforesaid, shall forfeit for every offence twenty dollars.

Penalty for not weighing and accounting for such parts.

Duties of town

SEC. 3. The town weighers of neat-cattle shall weigh all parts of said cattle made weighable by the first section of this chapter, de- weighers. ducting therefrom for green weight not more than two pounds, for every hundred pounds of the weight thereof.

SEC. 4. The fees of such weigher shall be twenty-five cents per Their fees. head for all cattle weighed; one half part of which shall be paid by the seller, and the other by the buyer thereof.

CHAPTER 114.

OF THE SALE OF BUTTER, ONIONS, POTATOES, AND BERRIES.

SECTION

1. How butter tubs to be branded.
2. Sale of, without brand, prohibited.

3. Penalty for sale without brand.
4. Weight of bushel of potatoes.

SECTION

5. Weight of bushel of onions and
other root crops.

6. Cranberries and other berries, how
measured.

Butter tubs,

branded.

SECTION 1. Every person who shall make or bring into this state any butter firkins or tubs, shall brand or mark each one of the same how to be with the weight thereof, and with the initial letters of his name, in a plain and durable manner, before he offers the same for sale. SEC. 2. No person shall offer for sale any butter by the firkin or

Sale without

brand prohibited. Penalty for sale without brand.

Weight of

bushel of potatoes:

Of onions and other root crops.

Cranberries,

tub, unless each tub and firkin shall be branded or marked as aforesaid.

SEC. 3. Every person who shall offer for sale any butter firkin or tub before the same shall be marked or branded as required in the first section of this chapter, or any butter by the firkin or tub, in any firkin or tub not marked or branded as aforesaid, or in any firkin or tub which shall weigh more than the mark or brand on it, allowing two pounds additional for the brine absorbed by the same, shall forfeit five dollars, unless there shall be a special contract in relation to the kind, quantity, and quality of the article sold.

SEC. 4. In the sale of potatoes by weight, the same shall be estimated at and after the rate of sixty pounds per bushel.

SEC. 5. In the sale of onions, and of all other root crops, by weight, the same shall be estimated at and after the rate of fifty pounds per bushel.

SEC. 6. Cranberries and all other berries hereafter sold, shall be

&c., how meas- measured by the strike or level measure, or thirty-two pounds to the

ured.

bushel.

To be sold by wine measure; measures to be sealed.

Inspectors, how appointed,

to give notice of election.

Duties of inspectors.

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SECTION 1. Milk shall be sold by wine measure, and all measures used in the sale of milk shall be sealed by the sealer of weights and measures of the town where the person so using the same shall usually reside; or of the town where such milk shall be measured for use; and every person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit ten dollars for each offence.

SEC. 2. The mayor and aldermen of any city, and the town council of any town, may annually elect one or more persons to be inspectors of milk therein, who shall be engaged to the faithful discharge of the duties of their office. Every inspector shall give notice of his election, by publishing notice thereof for two weeks in some newspaper published in the city or town from which he shall be appointed; or, if no newspaper be published therein, by posting up such notice in two or more public places in such city or town.

SEC. 3. Every inspector shall have an office, and a book, for the purpose of recording the names and places of business of all persons engaged in the sale of milk within his limits. He may enter any place where milk is stored or kept for sale, and examine all carriages

used in the conveyance of milk; and whenever he has reason to believe any milk found by him is adulterated, he shall take specimens thereof, and cause the same to be analyzed or otherwise satisfactorily tested, the result of which he shall record and preserve as evidence; and a certificate of such result, sworn to by the analyzer, shall be admissible in evidence in all prosecutions under this chapter. The inspector shall receive such compensation as the mayor and aldermen or town council shall determine.

SEC. 4. Whoever neglects to cause his name and place of business to be recorded in the inspector's book, and his name legibly placed upon all carriages used by him in the conveyance of milk, before engaging in the sale thereof, shall forfeit twenty dollars for the first of fence, and for a second and each subsequent offence fifty dollars; and whoever offers for sale milk produced from cows fed upon the refuse of distilleries, or any substance deleterious to the quality of the milk, or whoever offers for sale milk produced from sick or diseased cows, shall forfeit twenty dollars for the first, and fifty dollars for every subsequent offence; and whoever, in the employment of another, violates any provision of this section, shall be held equally guilty with the principal and suffer the same penalty.

SEC. 5. Whoever sells or exchanges, or has in his possession with intent to sell or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, adulterated milk, or milk to which water or any foreign substance has been added, shall, for each offence, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty, nor more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 6. Every inspector of milk shall institute complaints, on the information of any person, who shall lay before him satisfactory evidence on which to sustain the same.

SEC. 7. Every inspector of milk shall cause the provisions of this chapter to be published in his town, at least three times, in some newspaper printed in said town, or some newspaper in the county in which the town is situated.

SEC. 8. Every inspector shall cause the name and place of business of all persons convicted under this chapter, to be published in two newspapers printed in the town or county where the offence may have been committed.

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firewood.

SECTION 1. All firewood offered for sale by the cord shall measure Size of cord of in quantity equal to a cord of eight feet in length, four feet in width, and four feet in height, including one half of the kerf, and be well stowed and closely laid together.

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