1. STANDARD WEIGHTS.] Rev. Ord. 1866. The comptroller, at the expense of the city, shall procure correct and approved standards of weights and measures of the standard adopted by the state of Illinois, with their necessary subdivisions, together with the proper beams and scales, for the purpose of testing and proving the weights and measures of said standard used in the city.

2. TEST OF SCALES IN CITY.] It shall be the duty of the sealer of weights and measures, at least once in every year, to examine and test the accuracy of all weights, measures, scales or other instruments or things used by any person for weighing or measuring any article for sale in said city of Chicago; and to stamp with a suitable seal all weights, measures and scales so used which he may find correct, and deliver to the owner thereof a certificate of their accuracy. Any person refusing to exhibit any weights, measures or scales, or instruments for weighing or measuring, to said sealer for the purpose of examination and inspection as aforesaid, or obstructing him in the performance of his duty, shall forfeit a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars for each offense.

3. DUTY OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS-PENALTY.] It shall be the duty of said sealer of weights and measures to establish and keep an office within the limits of the city of Chicago, and to designate, by card or otherwise, the time during which he may be found in such office. If, upon examination, he shall find any weights, measures, balances or scales of any kind untrue, he shall immediately notify the owner or owners thereof, and any person or persons who shall, after such notice, use such untrue weights, measures, balances or scales, before the same shall have been adjusted, corrected and sealed by the sealer, shall forfeit and pay to the city, for each offense, a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, with costs of prosecution, for each and every day they are so used after such notification.

4. FEES.] The sealer of weights and measures shall be allowed to demand and receive of the person for whom he shall perform service, the following fees and compensation:

For inspecting and sealing railroad or track scales of the capacity of twenty tons and upward, each, five dollars.

For inspecting and sealing scales of from three to ten tons capacity, each, one dollar and fifty cents.

For inspecting and sealing hay and coal scales, each, one dollar.

For inspecting and sealing dormant scales, each, seventy-five cents.

For inspecting and sealing depot scales, each, one dollar.

For inspecting and sealing movable platform scales, each, fifty cents.

For inspecting and sealing beams weighing one-thousand pounds and upward, each, fifty cents.

For inspecting and sealing beams weighing less than one thousand pounds, each, twenty-five cents.

For inspecting and sealing hopper scales, each, one dollar.

For inspecting and sealing counter scales, each, twenty-five cents.

For inspecting and sealing any kind of scales other than above enumerated, each, twenty-five cents.

And with each scale sealed by him, he shall inspect and seal one set of weights, without any additional charge or compensation.

For inspecting and ser ling any dry measure, each, five cents.

For inspecting and sealing liquid measures of a capacity of five gallons and upward, each, ten cents.

For inspecting and sealing liquid measures of a capacity of not less than one gallon nor more than five gallons, each, seven cents.

For inspecting and sealing one-half gallon and one quart liquid measures, each, five cents.

For inspecting and sealing liquid measures of a less capacity than one quart, each, three cents.

For inspecting and sealing any board or cloth measure, each, five cents. And in every case where he may, at the request of the owner, employ labor or material in making any scale, weight or measure accurate, he shall be entitled to a just compensation therefor.

5. WHEN TEST TO BE MADE.] It shall not be lawful for said sealer to make the aforesaid charges for inspecting and testing weights, measures and scales, as aforesaid, oftener than once in each year, unless the same shall be found not conformable to the standard of the state.

6. USE OF UNSEALED WEIGHTS-PENALTY.] No persons shall make use of any weight, scale, measure or other instrument for weighing or measuring any article for sale in the city, until the same has been examined and sealed by the sealer of weights and measures, under a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. All persons using weights, measures, scales or other instruments for measuring any article for sale in this city, which have been sealed, shall, upon application of the sealer of weights and measures, allow the same to be examined, tested and sealed as herein provided, under a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for failing so to do; and any person or persons altering any weights, measures or scales, causing the same to weigh or measure incorrectly, unless to repair, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.

7. REGISTER OF SEALING-REPORT.] It shall be the duty of the said sealer to make a regular register of all weights, measures, scales, beams and steelyards, or other instruments inspected by him, in which he shall state the names of the owners of the same, and whether they are conformable to the standard of the state. And it shall also be his duty to report to the common council the names of all persons whose weights, scale beams, or steelyards are incorrect, and to deliver a copy of his said register to the clerk.

8. PEDDLERS' SCALES.] All itinerant peddlers and hawkers using scales, balances, weights or measures, shall take the same to the office of the city sealer before using the same, and have the same sealed and adjusted annually; and any such person or persons failing to comply with the provisions of this section, shall each forfeit and pay to the said city a sum of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, with costs of prosecution for each and every day such person or persons shall use the same without having the same adjusted and sealed as herein before provided

9. DRY MEASURES, ETC.] Any person who shall sell, or offer for sale, any fruit, vegetable, berries or grains of any description, or any article of dry measurement, within the city of Chicago, in wine measures or in any other than legal dry measures which shall have been sealed by the city sealer, whether of pint, quart, or other contents, or who shall practice deceit or fraud in the sale of wood or coal, by selling for a cord of wood less than one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet of wood, or for a ton of coal less than two thousand pounds of coal, shall be subject to a fine of not ess than five dollars, and not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

1. OCCUPATION OF WHARF LOTS.] Ord. Mar. 19, 1852. No person shall occupy, encumber or obstruct any portion of those parts of the streets of the city of Chicago called wharfing privileges, or any portion of a street adjoining the Chicago river, or either of its branches, with a wharf, building, lumber, stone or any other substance or material, without special authority and permission from the common council; and every occupier of any building or wharf, or owner of any building or wharf, lumber, stone or other substance or material which is now placed or remaining upon any portion of any such parts of said streets as are sometimes called wharfing privileges, or any portion of a street adjoining the Chicago river, or either

of its branches, without the permission or authority of said council, shall remove the same from said portions of said streets, within ten days from the passage of this ordinance, and any person who shall be guilty of a breach of any provision of this chapter, or shall place any building, wharf, lumber, stone, or other substance or material, without special authority or permission from the common council, upon any of such portions of said streets, and every occupier of any such building or wharf, or owner of any such building, wharf, lumber, stone, or other material, who shall suffer the same to remain on any of such portions of said streets contrary to the provisions of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay to said city a penalty of twenty dollars for each day or part of day such building, wharf, lumber, stone, or other substance or material shall remain or continue upon any of such portions of said streets.

2. PERMITS TO BE IN WRITING.] The permission or authority required in the first section of this chapter shall be in writing, and no other shall be valid.

Passed January 20, 1873.

Approved January 23, 1873.

Published February 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, 1873.