the said directors shall make any dividends which shall impair the capital stock of the said company, those of them consenting thereto shall be liable in their individual capacities to the said company for the amount of the stock so divided; and each director present when such dividend shall be made, shall be adjudged to be consenting thereto, unless he forthwith enter his protest on the minutes of the board, and give public notice thereof to the stockholders at the declaring such dividend.

SECTION 22. No suit or action shall be brought or prosecu- Suits must be ted by any person or persons for any penalties incurred under commenced this act, unless such suit or action shall be commenced within within a year one year next after the cffence shall have been committed, or the cause of action shall have accrued, or the defendant or delendants in such suit or action may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence, and that the same was done in pursuance and by authority of this act.

SECTION 23. If any person or persons shall wilfully and Penalty on knowingly break, injure or destroy the rail road or any part wilfully inju thereof, or any work, edifice or device, or any part thereof, to ring works of be erected by the said company, in pursuance of this act, or company. shall in any manner obstruct the free passage along the said rail road, he, she or they shali forfeit and pay to the said company three times the actual damage thereby sustained, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit in any court having cognizance thereof by action of debt, in the name and for the use of the company.

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SECTION 24. If the said company shall not carry into effect Time of the objects of their charter within the term of ten years from completion. the passing of this act, or if after the completion of the said rail road, the said corporation shall suffer the same to go to decay,

and be impassable for the term of one year, then this charter Forfeiture of shall become null and void, except so far as compels said com- charter for pany to make reparation for damages. neglect.

JAMES THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM,

Speaker of the Senate.

APPROVED-The fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini, eigh

teen hundred and thirty-five.

GEO: WOLF.

No. 184.

An Act

Relating to Inspections.

SECTION 1.

2.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

1. Flour, Meal, Bread and Biscuit.

Flour and meal are liable to inspection at Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and in the counties of Allegheny, Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Armstrong, Butler, Beaver, Mercer, Crawford, Erie, Warren, Venango.'

Wheat flour liable to inspection at York, Pottsville and Mount Carbon, in the counties of York and Schuylkill.

3. Flour brought from adjoining States into the counties of Allegheny, Westmoreland Washington, Greene, Fayette, for sale, is liable to inspection.

4.

Wheat flour liable to inspection at city of Lan caster, Columbia and Harrisburg, in the counties of Lancaster and Dauphin.

5. But flour made in any other State may be exported as the manufacture of such State, without inspection.

6.

And flour may be transported by land out of the counties of Westmoreland, Washington, Greene, Fayette, without inspection.

7. Flour liable to inspection shall be made merchantable, fine and without mixture.

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Wheat flour shall be packed in barrels or half barrels, well made, &c.

11. The size and denominations of the barrels, &c.,

specified.

12. The quantity of flour to be packed in each barrel, &c., specified.

13.

The miller shall brand the barrels with the appropriate number of denominations, under a penalty.

SECTION 14. Rye flour and corn meal may be packed in such barrels, &c.

15. Rye flour and corn meal may be packed in pun-
cheons or hogsheads, well made, &c.

16. The size of the puncheons, &c., specified.
17. The quantity of flour meal to be packed in pun-

cheons.

18. Flour called middlings, how to be branded.
19. Casks containing rye flour and corn meal shall
be tared and marked, &c.

20. Every miller shall have a brand, &c.

21.

22.

-May brand casks of wheat flour with the word "superfine."

-May brand casks of rye flour with the word "fine," &c.

23. The branding of "superfine," or "fine," to be

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deemed a warranty, &c.

How flour shall be inspected.

The denomination branded, as aforesaid, to be cut out if the flour, &c. be unmerchantable. Casks of merchantable flour to be plugged up with stamped plugs.

Forfeiture for packing flour or meal in casks of any dimensions not authorized.

Penalty for packing less than the required quantity in any cask.

Mixed flour to be condemned, if offered as wheat flour, &c.

Penalty for packing flour in casks made of unseasoned timber.

31. Penalty for lading flour, &c. liable to be inspected, &c. previous to inspection.

32. Penalty for offering to transport flour or meal without being branded, &c.

33. Penalty for impressing the word "superfine" or "fine," on casks removed from the mill, &c. and before inspection.

34. Penalty for fraudulently branding or shipping, &c. wheat flour as superfine, or rye flour as fine, knowing it to be inferior, &c.

35. Penalty for fraudulently branding or shipping, &c. unmerchantable corn meal, &c.

36. Inspectors shall upon request or suspicion of unfairness, unpack casks of flour, meal, &c.

37. Penalty for marking false tare, &c.

38. Millers shall cause their brands to be entered with the clerk of the Quarter Sessions of the county, &c. under penalty.

39. Carts, &c. used for conveying flour, &c. to be provided with a good covering.

SECTION 40. Open boats, &c. used for conveying flour, &c to be provided with sufficient tarpauling.

41. Persons unloading flour, &c. to cause the same to be put in store or under a shelter.

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42. Corriers of flour, &c. suffering it to be damaged for want of due care, subject to a penalty. Masters of vessels shall declare in their manifests the number of barrels of flour, meal, &c. to which inspectors shall have free access, &c.

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Penalty upon them in case of neglect or refusal, &c.

45. The fees of inspectors of flour.

46. The inspector may demand the fees of the owner, his agent, factor or the person in pos

session of the flour.

47. The fees of inspector a charge on the article distinct from the price agreed.

48. The same fees demandable whether the article be approved or condemned.

II. Beef and Pork.

49. Salted beef and pork designed for ship stores or exportations, &c. liable to inspection at Philadelphia.

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Proviso exem.pting imported beef and pork from inspection.

Beef and pork shall be packed in tierces, barrels or half barrels, and secured with salt. Casks which shall be used for the purpose, how made.

Dimensions of the casks.

54. Quantity of beef or pork in each cask.

55.

What pieces of beef may be put in each cask. 56. What pieces of pork may be put in each cask. 57. Extra Mess, Mess, Prime and Cargo beef, the quality and assortment of it.

58. Mess, Prime and Cargo pork, the quality and assortment of it.

59. The branding of the words Extra Mess, Mess, Prime or Cargo, a warranty of the article. 60. The cooper or packer shall brand his name on each cask.

61. The inspector shall brand on casks of merchantable beef or pork the word "Philadelphia."

62.

Shall efface the brand marks on casks of unmerchantable beef or pork, and make the mark of a cross

SECTION 63. Penalty for fraudulently impressing the words "Extra Mess," "Mess," "Prime" or"Cargo" on casks of beef or pork, and for fraudulently shipping as such beef or pork of an inforior quality.

64. Penalty for selling for ship stores or exportation before inspection, &c.

65. Shad and herring in barrels, designed for exportation from Philadelphia, liable to in

spection.

66. Salted fish liable to inspection before sale or exportation at Pittsburg and Columbia. Proviso exempting imported fish from inspection. 68. Salted fish liable to inspection, how it shall be packed.

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69. The dimensions of the barrels to be used, regu

lated.

70. The packer of the fish shall brand his name on cach cask, &c.

71. Notice must be given to the inspector at Pittsburg and Columbia, of fish brought to the

said places within eight days, &c.

72. Inspection of fish how made.

73. Merchantable fish how branded by the inspector. 74. Unmerchantable fish how branded by the inspector.

75. Penalty for exporting, &c. without inspection from Philadelphia.

76. The inspector may inspect and brand fish, upon which the penalty has accrued, after payment of the penalty.

77. Penalty for exporting, &c, from Pittsburg or

Columbia.

78. Penalty on the owner of fish fraudulently pack-
ed, or packed with improper substances, &c.
79. Salted fish liable to re-inspection, after six
months, if not sold, &c.

80. The casks to be filled by the owner, and packed
by him, as the inspector shall require.
81. Fees for the inspection of salted fish.

Of beef and pork.

83. Inspectors may receive customary compensation

for cooperage.

84. But the owner may employ any person to do the cooperage.

85. Fees for inspecting unmerchantable provisions, the same as if they had been merchantable.