Chapter 1358. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five
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CHAP. 1358.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. March 31, 1906. [[H. R. 4470](/us/bill/34/hr/4470).] [[Public, No. 78](/us/pl/34/78).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Sealer of weights and measures.Vol. 28, p. 818, amended.
That section twelve of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appointment of a sealer and assistant sealer of weights and measures in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read: " “Sec. 12. Deliveries of coal and coke.That no person shall sell, or deliver, any coal, or coke, within the limits of the District of Columbia unless at the time of the 95delivery thereof to the person in charge of the wagon, cart, or other vehicle or conveyance used for and in the delivery thereof, a writtenCertificates of weight of. etc., required. or printed certificate duly signed by or for the seller, showing separately the actual weight of said coal, or coke, and the name of the purchaser thereof, and the weight of the said wagon, cart, or other vehicle or conveyance, and showing the total weight of said coal, coke, wagon, cart, other vehicle, or conveyance.
And any person who shallPenalty for noncompliance. violate or neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section shall be punished by a line of not more than forty dollars: *Provided,* That all prosecutions under this Act shall be brought in the*Proviso.*Prosecutions. police court of the District of Columbia on information tiled by the corporation counsel or one of his assistants.” " Approved, March 31, 1906.