Chapter 154.
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CHAP. 154.— AN ACT to alter and amend a law of the District of Columbia relative to the inspection of flour.June 4, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. That section six of an act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, approved August twenty-first eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An act relating to inspection of dour” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read:
" “That all and every barrel and half-barrel of flour manufactured inFlour inspection in. the District, or brought to the same for sale, shall be subject to the examination of the inspector, by boring, searching, and trying it through with an instrument not exceeding five-eighths of an inch in diameter, to be provided by the inspector for that purpose, who shall afterwards plug up the hole with a round plug made of soft wood, so as to prevent the entrance of water, and if the inspector shall judge the same to be merchantableBranding of merchantable flour. according to the. direction of this act, he shall, at the time of inspecting, mark or brand on the head or quarter of every barrel and half barrel of flour, in letters one-half inch in length, the word “Georgetown”, if inspected in Georgetown, and “Washington”, if inspected in Washington, together' with the word or words designating the degree of fineness which he shall, at the time of inspection, determine said flour entitled to, with the exception of the degree of superfine, which he shall mark or brand over the quarter; and the several degrees in quality shall be distinguished as follows:
Fundly, Extra, Superfine, Fine, and First Middlings. And for the inspection of which the said inspector shall have and receive of the owner or agent of said flour, tor each and every barrel and half-barrel, one cent and one drawing of flour for all inspected in Washington or Georgetown; and every barrel or half-barrel of flour which shall prove, on examination thereof, to be unmerchantable, according Unmerchantable flour.to the true intent and meaning of this act, the said inspector shall mark on the head or quarter with a broad arrow, and no barrel or half-barrelSelling flour not branded. of flour, not examined and branded by the inspector as aforesaid, shall be sold within the District, under penalty of one dollar for each and every barrel or half-barrel, to be paid by the person or persons so offending.
" Approved, June 4, 1878.