Comptroller to issue warrants. Warrants to be paid. claimant belonged, or for which the supplies were furnished or services rendered, and the claimant or claimants shall also make affidavit that he or they has or have never been paid for said services, &c., either by the United States of America or by the State of Florida; after which the County Judge shall certify he has reason to believe, and does believe, that the persons making the affidavit aforesaid are the persons they represent themselves to be, and that he believes them to be men of veracity, and shall affix his proper seal of office to the same, upon the production of which certificate by the person so entitled, or his agent or attorney, the Comptroller shall issue his warrant as aforesaid. (d) SEC. 16. Whenever the provisions of Sections 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of this chapter are complied with, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to issue warrants on the treasury for the amounts due said companies, person or persons, or issue scrip according to the provisions of Sections 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of this chapter, as the said companies or individual members thereof, person or persons, their agents or attorneys, may elect to receive. (d) SEC. 17. The warrants or State scrip issued as aforesaid shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, whenever the same shall be by the holder thereof presented at the State treasury. (d) Inspectors of beef to be appointed. CHAPTER 119. INSPECTORS OF BEEF. 1. County Commissioners to ap- penalties for failure to report to point Inspectors of Beef. 2. Duties of such Inspectors. 4. Butchers to notify Inspectors Inspectors. 5. Inspectors shall be sworn : penalty for omission of duty: how and before whom fine collected. 6. Compensation of such Inspect ors, how and by whom fixed. SECTION 1. In each and every county in this State where a butchery is, or shall hereafter be established for the purpose of preparing beef for exportation, whether the same be jerked or salted, or otherwise prepared, it shall and may be lawful for. and is hereby declared to be the express duty of the County Commissioners to appoint a beef inspector or inspectors, as may be most convenient, whose duty it shall be to perform the services hereinafter mentioned. (a) (d) Secs. 5, 6 and 7, Chap. 1175, Act of Feb. 8, 1861. (a) Sec. 1, Act of Feb. 10, 184. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the beef inspectors, thus ap- Duty of the pointed, punctually to attend upon short notice at such butch- inspector. ery, on each and every occasion when beeves are butchered, then and there to take the marks and brands of all beeves at the time they are hauled up, or otherwise confined and butchered, and to register in a book by him (the inspector) to be kept for that purpose, the artificial marks and brands of each and every beast butchered, as well also as the natural marks and age of each beef, as nearly as practicable, together with the name of the person from whom purchased or raised, by the proprietor of said butchery. (a) Circuit Court. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said inspectors, respect- Shall make reively, once in three months, to make and return to the Clerk port to Clerk of of the Circuit Court of the county wherein such butchery is situated, a true copy of all his entries in his said book, and a true statement of all his proceedings in his said office; and it is hereby declared to be the duty of such clerk to file the same for the inspection of all persons applying therefor. (a) SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of each and every person or per- Butchers to call upon insons engaged in butchering or otherwise preparing beef for exspectors. portation as aforesaid, after the appointment of inspectors aforesaid, upon, and at the time of butchering of any beef or beeves, to call upon some one of such inspectors and notify him to attend and take the marks and brands as required by law, of the beef or beeves so about to be butchered; and if such inspector shall thereafter fail to attend promptly, he shall then call upon two disinterested and respectable persons of the neighborhood, to perform the duties of inspector. And any person so engaged in butchery, who shall fail to perform the Penalty. duties hereby enjoined, shall for every beef so butchered, forfeit and pay to such person as shall make complaint, the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered in action of debt, one-half to the complainant and the other half to the county where the said action is prosecuted to judgment. (a) be sworn. SEC. 5. The several inspectors of beef cattle, hereby ap- Inspectors to pointed, shall be sworn to discharge the duties of their respective offices, before entering upon the same; and if at any time any person engaged as aforesaid, in butchering, or otherwise preparing beef for exportation, shall give notice to any insector to attend at the butchery, for the purpose herein before expressed, and if said inspector shall fail or refuse to attend, Penalty for except for some reasonable excuse, such inspector shall forfeit omission and pay to said person, for whose use and in whose name the said butchery is conducted, or any other person prosecuting for the same, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, before any Justice of the Peace in the district where said inspector resides. (a) of duty. SEC. 6. The Board of County Commissioners in each county compensation shall have power to fix the rate of allowance to be made to in- of inspectors. (a) Secs. 2, 3, 4 and 5, Act of Feb. 10, 1834. spectors of beef cattle, for the duties hereby enjoined, the onehalf whereof shall be paid by the purchaser, and one-half by the seller of any beef or beeves, paying due regard to the amount of business to be done by and at any butchery, so as to make the allowance reasonable and no more. (a) Inspectors to be appointed. Oath and duties. Malfeasance. penalty for CHAPTER 120. INSPECTORS OF TAR AND TURPENTINE. 1. Governor to appoint Inspectors of Tar and Turpentine when necessary. weight of. 7. Standard weight of barrels, when full; deductions, when to 2. Oath of office; duties; pen- make; Inspector to keep record ; alty for malfeasance. what record to contain. 8. Force and effect of decision of Inspector. 9. Fees of Inspector. 10. May discharge officials; duties in more than one county. 11. Penalty for persons to export tar or turpentine without inspection. 12. Not obligatory on growers 6. Barrels, how to be made; of tar and turpentine in this State. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor of this State to appoint and commission, in and for the several counties of this State, such inspectors of turpentine and tar as he may deem necessary for the public good: Provided, That he shall in no case appoint more than two inspectors for each county. (a)) SEC. 2. Every person so appointed, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take an oath, to be administered by any Justice of the Peace in the county, faithfully and impartially to execute the duties of his office and make true returns. He shall be in readiness at all times during business hours to discharge said duties, and shall, at the request of the purchaser or seller, certify in detail the weight and merchantable condition of all tar and turpentine inspected by him. He shall be liable in any court of competent jurisdiction for malfeasance in office and fraud, and on conviction, shall be removed from office, and shall be liable to damage at the suit of the party aggrieved. (a) (a) Sec. 6, Act of Feb. 10, 1834. (a) Secs. 1 and 2, Chap. 613, Act of Jan. 6, 1855. branded. SEC. 3. Every maker of tar and turpentine shall mark or Barrels to be brand every barrel of the same made by him with initial let- marked and ters of his or her name, not less than one inch long, under the penalty of ten cents for every barrel that may not be so branded or marked, and every person so failing or neglecting shall also Penalty for pay one-half cent per barrel to the inspector for marking the failure. same with the initial letters of the maker's name, which fee shall be paid by the person paying the fees of inspection, and by him may be charged to the makers. (b) SEC. 4. The inspector shall make a difference with respect to Difference to be the various qualities of turpentine dippings and scrapings, made between dippings and designating the character of each barrel in the following man- scrapings, and ner: That which he finds to be pure virgin dip he shall how designated. mark with the letter V; pure yellow dip he shall mark with the letter D; pure scrape he shall mark with the letter S ; virgin dip that is impure or mixed, with the letter V within a circle; yellow dip that is impure or mixed, with the letter D within a circle; and for scrape not passable, X within a circle. (b) when to be SEC. 5. The inspector shall in all cases inspect and make Allowances and allowances and deductions on turpentine or tar with reference deductions, to the following particulars, viz: First, when virgin dip is made by the dipped from burnt boxes or contains burnt cinders or sand; inspectors. second, when virgin dip is mixed with chips, bark or any other impurities; third, when virgin dip is mixed with yellow dip or scrape; fourth, when yellow dip is mixed or contains chips, straw, bark, scrape, or sand, or other impurities; fifth, when scrape contains more chips than are absolutely necessary to get it off, or dirt or other impurities; sixth, when yellow dip, virgin dip, scrape or tar contains water, or there is an excess of wood in the barrels containing it, or it is injured by long standing or leakage; seventh, when tar or turpentine of any class is contained in insufficient or unmerchantable barrels. (b) SEC. 6. Barrels containing turpentine of any class shall be Barrels, how to` made from staves not less than five-eighths nor more than seven- be made, and their weight. eighths of an inch thick, and not less than thirty nor more than thirty-two inches in length, with headings not less than sixeighths nor more than nine-eighths of an inch thick, and shall be bound with twelve good hoops, and shall weigh not more than forty-five pounds when empty. Barrels containing tar shall be made of staves not less than six-eighths nor more than eight-eighths of an inch thick, and thirty inches in length, with heading not less than one inch or more than one inch and a half thickness, and be bound with fourteen good hoops. Barrels containing scrape shall be made as above provided for barrels containing turpentine, except that they shall be bound with eight good hoops, and shall not weigh when empty more than forty pounds. (b) SEC. 7. The standard weight of a barrel of turpentine, when (b) Secs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, Chap. 613, Act of Jan. 6, 1855. Standard rels when full. Deductions, when to be made. full, shall be two hundred and eighty pounds gross, and of a weight of bar barrel of tar three hundred and twenty pounds gross; and the inspector shall in all cases make allowances and deductions when the weight is greater or less than the standard weight, or the tar or turpentine is contained in barrels other than is provided by this chapter. The inspector shall keep a book in which shall be fairly entered the maker's name and the mark of every barrel of tar and turpentine, and the number of barrels inspected by him of the same mark, the purchaser's name causing the same to be inspected, the time of inspection, and the allowances or deductions made, and shall give a certificate of any lot or parcel to any person requiring the same, on the payment of ten cents. (c) Inspector to keep a record. Decision of inspector final. Fees of inspector. May discharge SEC. 8. The decision of an inspector, made in writing or entered upon his books, shall be final, and no appeal shall be had from his judgment, but it shall be binding upon both parties. (c) SEC. 9. For each barrel of tar or turpentine which he shall inspect the inspector shall receive five cents as his fees, to be paid in all cases by the purchaser or shipper. (c) SEC. 10. Any inspector may discharge the duties of his office duties in adjoin in any county of this State immediately adjoining the county for which he may be appointed. (c) ing county. Penalty for ex SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to export tar or porting with turpentine out of this State that has not been inspected and out inspection. marked by the inspector, as above provided, under a penalty of twenty cents for each and every barrel of tar or turpentine so unlawfully exported. (c) Not obligatory SEC. 12. No part or portion this chapter shall be so conon growers in strued as to be considered obligatory upon the growers of tar and turpentine in this State. (c)) this State. CHAPTER 121. INSPECTORS OF TIMBER AND LUMBER. 1. Appointment; term of office; to give bond; certified copy of bond to be evidence. 2. Penalty for exercising office without complying with statute. 3. Duty of Inspectors; how called upon, &c. 4. Violation of the provisions of this law by persons who have lumber to measure or inspect, how punished. 5. Fees of Inspectors. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint a Appointment. sufficient number of timber and lumber inspectors in each county in the State, who shall hold their offices for four years, (c) Seca. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, Chap. 613, Act of Jan. 6, 1855. |