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![handle is hein.ssl/ssmo0065 and id is 1 raw text is: TERRITORY OF MISSOURI.
CHAPTER 85.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
AN ACT regulating and establishing Weights and Measures.*
1 Weights, measures, and scal. for-proviso-weights and mcasure9 to ha
2 Using other weights and measures, penalty scaled by clerk.
Be it enacted by the General Asssembly of the Territory of Missouri, [as follows:]
1. The several courts of common pleas within this territory, shall provide for
their respective counties, and at the expense of the said counties, one measure of
one foot, or twelve inches, English measure, so called. Also, one measure of three
feet, or thirty-six inches, English measure as aforesaid, to be denominated one yard
Also, one half bushel measure, which shall contain one thousand seventy-five and
one sixth solid inches, to be denominated dry measure, Also, one gallon mea-
sure, which shall contain two hundred and thirty-one solid inches; one half gal-
lon measure, which shall contain one hundred and fifteen and one-half solid inches;
and one quart measure, which shall contain fifty-seven and three-fourths solid
inches, which- measures are to be of wood, or any metal the court shall think pro-
per. Also one set of weights, commonly called avoirdupois weights, and one seal,
with the initial of the county inscribed thereon, which measures, weights, and
seal, shall be kept by the clerk of the court of common pleas in each county, for
the purpose of trying and sealing the measures and weights used in their counties.
2. As soon as the courts shall have furnished the weights and measures as afore-
said, they shall cause notice thereof to be given at the court house door for two
months. And any person who will knowingly keep any measures or weights and
buy or sell any commodity whatsoever by such measures or weights as shall not
correspond with the measures and weights deposited in the clerk's office, shall, for
every such offence, being legally convicted thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not ex-
ceeding forty dollars, nor less than five dollars, for the use of the county where
such offence shall have been committed, and also the costs of suit, to be recovered
before any justice of the peace of said county; provided, aiways, that all contracts
or obligations made previous to the taking effect of this act shall be settled, paid,
and executed agreeably to the weights and measures in common use at the time
of said contracts or obligations were made and entered into. All persons desirous
of having their weights and measures tried by the county standard shall apply to
the clerk of the county, and if he finds them correspond with the said standard
shall seal them with the seal provided for that purpose.
3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of Octo-
ber next.
July 2S, 1813.
#R1epealcil It. L. 18)5, p. 100, sec. 13.
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