State and National Laws Concerning the Weights and Measures of the United States, Volume 13U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 564 pages |
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Page 341 - ... of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 286 - SEC. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the...
Page 3 - That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the Metric System ; and no contract, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection, because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the Metric System.
Page 325 - ... adopted at the Sixteenth Legislative Session of this state. Section 13. Any person who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) Dollars...
Page 282 - First. In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now, or from time to time hereafter, known as articles of food, under their own distinctive names...
Page 163 - The disbursing officer shall give bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary...
Page 537 - misbranded," as used herein, shall apply to all drugs, or articles of food, or articles which enter into the composition of food, the package or label of which shall bear any statement, design, or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein which shall be false or misleading in any particular...
Page 194 - ... in a conspicuous place, on the outside thereof, a plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the number of net pounds in the...
Page 194 - ... corn, buckwheat and broom corn. Neither shall it include wheat, rye and buckwheat brans or middlings, not mixed with other substances...
Page 275 - Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.