Chapter 384. 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 purpose,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and to amend an Act amendatory thereof approved June twentieth, ninet
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CHAP. 384.— 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 purpose,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and to amend an Act amendatory thereof approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six. January 22, 1907. [[S. 6578](/us/bill/59/s/6578).] [[Public, No. 24](/us/pl/59/24).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Weights and measures.Vol. 28, p. 812.*Ante*, p. 315.
That section ten 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, and the Act amendatory thereof approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 10. Sales of provisions, etc., not to be under actual weight, etc.*Ante*, p. 315, amended.
No person shall sell or offer for sale anywhere in the District of Columbia, any provisions or produce or commodities of any kind for a weight or measure greater than the actual or true weight or measure thereof; and all provisions, produce, or commodities of any kind shall when sold by weight or measure, be weighed by scales, weights, or balances, or measured in measures duly tested and sealed by the sealer or an assistant sealer of weights and measures: *Provisos*.Berries in original packages permitted. *Provided*, That berries, when offered for sale in an original package or basket containing a standard measure, may be sold in said package or basket without the same having been first tested and sealed: but in no ease shall said basket be refilled for use in the. sale of berries or produce Poultry and vegetables.of any kind whatsoever: *And provided further*, That poultry and vegetables, usually sold by the head or bunch, may be offered for sale and sold in other manner than by weight or measure: but in all cases where the person intending to purchase shall so desire and request, poultry shall be weighed, as hereinbefore prescribed: *And provided further*, Sealing scales not in use.That scales reported not in use shall be sealed down, and said seal shall not be broken except by authority of the sealer of weights and measures.
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