: CHAP. XIX. shall provide the several counties of the state with such standards and balances as may be necessary, he is hereby authorized to contract with such manufacturers as he may select for their ability and experience, for the making and furnishing so many sets of weights and measures and such and so many balances as shall be necessary to supply those counties that are not yet provided with a proper and efficient set of standard weights and measures and balances to meet the requirements of the said act in relation to weights and measures, as specified more particularly in the twenty-first section of the same, together with one additional set of such standards, to remain on deposit in the office of the said state superintendent, as a model whereupon to construct new standards for such counties as may be hereafter erected within this state. The said standard shall be fabricated and manufactured of such materials, denominations and fashion of workmanship as shall be directed by the said superintendent, and conformed by the manufacturers as nearly as practicable to the standard established by the United States government. The cost and Expenses expenses of the said standards shall be paid by the treasurer of the state, on the warrant of the comptroller, based upon the certificate of said superintendent, stating that the said sets of weights, measures and balances have been delivered into his possession, and have been examined and approved by him; provided, as an essential condition, that the said standards are obtainable at such rates as shall be deemed just and reasonable by the superintendent. how paid. tion and tion. $ 2. On receiving the aforesaid weights, measures and bal- Examina ances, the state superintendent of weights and measures shall distribuforthwith proceed to examine the balances and compare each set of weights and measures with and conform the same as exactly as possible to the state standard weights and measures in his possession; and shall thereupon forward one set of such standard weights and measures, together with the requisite balances, to the county clerk or county sealer of each county in the state not already supplied with the same, for the use of the county sealer of such county, as specified in the twentyfirst section of the act to which this is an addition; the cost of transportation to be defrayed out of such county treasury respectively, and the fees and expenses of the state superintendent for verification and sealing to be paid by the county treasurer to the said superintendent on his order. S 3. In order to indemnify the state treasurer for the expenses incurred under the first section of this act, the prime cost of each set of standards shall be charged to the county to which the same is assigned, and shall remain to the debit of said county until fully repaid, but without interest for one year after the date of the delivery of such set of standards; and the board of supervisors of every such county, at their first annual meeting after the reception of such set of standards, shall provide the means to meet the expenses and III.-111 Prime cost to be charg ed to the county. PART I. charges incident thereto, and shall authorize the county treasurer to pay into the treasury of the state the prime cost of such standards, together with the interest accruing upon the same from one year after the reception of such standards. S 4. So much of the twenty-fourth section of the act entitled "An act in relation to weights and measures," passed April eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, as requires the supervisors of each county to provide for procuring a set of county standards, is modified by the preceding third seetion of this act, so far as respects the several counties that have not acted under the said twenty-fourth section; but the remainder of the section shall remain in full force, to the effect that the supervisors of each county shall, soon after the passage of this act, provide for procuring the proper standard weights, measures and balances for each of the towns in said county, at the expense of such towns respec tively. |